Given that we said our goodbyes and spent three days driving from Ontario only a few short months ago, we weren’t quite ready to go back home this Christmas. Instead, we decided to visit a friend of ours from our time in Taiwan, who’s now working in Calgary. We rented a car and did a […]
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Checking out another province – Moving to Saskatchewan!
Well, we’ve started another new adventure – Mike has been accepted into the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Regina. So we’ve packed up all our things and driven out to Regina, our new home.
2012: A Retrospective
With just a few hours left, it is time to look back at the year that was!
A Big Change: Moving Back to Ontario
With my thesis in examination, and Mike finished work, we decided to pack up our home in St. John’s and head back to Ontario to visit with family and friends we haven’t seen in over a year (we decided not to go home for Christmas). Mike is always experimenting with his (now not-so) new dSLR, […]
What does a Canadian bring to an International Potluck?
Mike and I have been to two International-themed potlucks since the New Year. I am always relieved when the concept is “choose a cuisine and make something” rather than bringing a dish from your own culture’s cuisine. Mike and I love to cook dishes from other cultures, and made baked char siu bao (chinese BBQ […]
Winter on the Island
Well, winter has finally arrived here in St. John’s. We had a snow day two Fridays ago, and Mike and I took advantage of that by going snowshoeing with some friends around Pippy Park and in the Three Pond Barrens. It was a lot of fun – the new snowshoes are much easier to walk […]
Here we go, IceCaps, here we go!
Mike occasionally gets tickets to see the IceCaps from work. We were lucky enough to get to go tonight. The game-winning goal came with 42 seconds remaining in the 3rd, for a 3-2 win against the Manchester Monarchs. The crowd went wild! Seats on the end have their advantages – it happened right in front […]