Isn't It a Shame?

Well, the bike trip is rapidly approaching. Thursday is the hopefuly departure date, although it might be pushed back to friday. I've been trying to organize a shift of my computer to my dad, and a purchase of a new computer for me...however, after spending the entire day trying to install windows on the new machine, i'm going to have to take it back in tomorrow and pay them to put in on for me. Grr.

I'm excited about the trip...we'll hopefully spend about 6 days in New Brunswick, 4-5 in PEI, 4-5 in Nova Scotia/Cape Breton and about 10 in Newfoundland. I want to see whales, iceburgs, and birds...and i want to eat lots and lots of seafood.

I need the address for alison at the french camp. Anyone have it? email me.

That's all! : )

As many of you will already know, our main man Simon Chan made a rare appearance and was iin town for the weekend. We took FULL advantage with some splendid mountain biking up in the Gatineau. Simon earned many points for hardcore effort, and for screaming like a girl while flying down steep slopes and over many rocks. Oh...umm...no...wait...that was me. Wasn't it?

The adventure was capped off with some cheap sundaes and burgers from McDs. A winner for everyone.

Simon and I tried to see Star Wars last night, but even though we got there fairly early it was basically all sold out. So we opted to see Kicking and Screaming instead. Basically Will Ferrell and his dad go head to head coaching junion league soccer league teams. Lots of humourous goodness. Lots of little kids playing kick ass soccer. Extra props to Mike Ditka for making the movie that much funnier.

Someone else who makes ANYTHING funny...going back into the Onion archives: George Clinton. You know, I know this guy that was ON STAGE with PFunk and the PFunk dancing girls.

Here's the bloghood.

Been home in ottawa for a goodly while now. And frankly, I really haven't done all that much. Most days are spent biking...no really, I've been biking on the order of 3-5 hours a day. I in fact just got back from my longest ride thus far(distance wise)...out to Carleton Place and back. Just under 100km. Went really well...except it rained the entire ride back, so i was DRENCHED from head to toe by the time i was home. The contingency plan in this kind of situation on the trip is that richard + car = dry.

I've bought two bikes since getting home. long story short, someone stole my "old" bike from my garage. However, the new Rocky Mountain is stellar.

Hopefully tomorrow Channer and I will get out riding in Gatineau. Speaking of Gatineau, i went on a frog hunt yesterday. Kind of. The Friends of Gatineau Park host all these different events on a weekly or so basis...more or less an info session of sorts with pictures and handy info about a specific type of creature: wolves, owls, migratory birds, insects and in the case of last night, frogs and salimanders. Then, you go out into the park with the interpreter and check out the actual species in action! So last night there were about 30 people at this thing, and we saw spring peepers, and north american toads(as well as a beaver, some bats, and lots of different kinds of birds)...but the best park was actually seeing/touching a big blob of salimander eggs. SUPER FUN...would recommend anyone in ottawa check it out.

I'll be leaving for the trip in a week and a half or so. Richard is home soon, and that's when trip planning will ramp up into overdrive.

Hope everyone's having fun with their respective ventures!