Here in no-fun-couver, one of the fun things to do is the four-night Festival of Fire (or whatever they’re calling it this year. Festival of Light, Symphony of Fire, the name seems to keep changing). Tonight was the first night this year. Of course this year it’s a bit more interesting because of the civic strike — there’s no garbage collection, and when you’ve got 500,000 people on the various beaches, they leave a lot of garbage behind. We’ll see in the news tomorrow if the other three nights are going to happen.

At any rate, the boy was asking to go to bed at 6pm tonight so there was no way we were going to get to go. We went last year one night (with Gwynedd and Andrew) but our traditional way of watching them is from the comforts of our dining room. Here are some shots from Spain’s efforts (they started with the Star Wars “Main Theme”, and ended with the Star Wars “Duel of the Fates” theme):

Ah, we love living in Fairview Slopes.

I have posted on my other blog about trying to make some healthier choices and as far as I am concerned sushi is a big part of that lifestyle choice. Now I have decided that since Aidan also loves sushi (it is something he asks for several times a week) I would try to make it myself.

Something the websites don’t tell you it that making sushi is very time consuming. I am thinking that the next set that I make will be a big batch of rice so that I can maybe freeze some. I am not sure how that will work but I am willing to try. The first rolls that I made Aidan ate quickly but I didn’t think that they were photo worthy. The next set were and the pictures are below. I am keeoing to the vegetarian sushi and I can’t wait to try to make avocado rolls. The kappa maki and kappa maki with carrot shavings turned out well for my first try. I did have to wash my hands about a thousand times though, damn that sticky rice. :)

My lovely sushi. :)

Aidan trying to get “More Sushi.”

Aidan eating Mommy’s lovely sushi. Enjoy.

Hey, we’re proud of ourselves today!  On 7 July 2007 (07/07/07) we picked up 7 caches!  We happened to get our 49th (7*7) too.

It also meant that we got our 50th cache milestone.  That one was a cache dedicated to Terry Fox, in his home city of Port Coquitlam.

If the weather’s nice, we might get some more tomorrow too!

OK. In the face of mounting pressure, we’ve decided to head to NS this summer. We hope to visit lots of people including my ailing cousin Pat, meet up with Gwynedd, Andrew, Galen, and their newborn Tallis, of course see my parents and the rest of the family. And do some geocaching. The timing’s tight, so we can’t get any coins made up, but I’ve got some ideas and a design already set.

So, we’ll be in Halifax on the 31st of July.

I leave on the 14th of August, and Gwen and Aidan will be leaving on the 22nd. Hopefully Gwen survives the transcontinental trip with Aidan without too many emotional or physical scars.

Gwen put the flights together today and happened on a seat sale that saved us well over $1300! Good job dear!

If you want to meet up with us, drop me a line before we head; I think timing’s going to be tight for the whole trip.