Fantastic Easter Weekend

I hope you enjoyed yours. I worked out that this was the best weekend of the year, because:

• It's the only 4-day weekend of the year
• It was pay-day on Thursday
• Pay-day was also annual bonus day

So not only did we have lots of free time, but money in our pockets to boot. Hooray :)

We didn't go anywhere special, but we got to do plenty of relaxing. Unfortunately, Steph had to work some of the Friday, while I went for a 3-hour walk in Stanley Park. It was lovely to get out in the fresh air and have some peace and quiet. On Saturday we cycled around the park - the first time this year we have ridden our bikes. They are still in one piece, and nothing got stolen from them over the Winter which was lucky as we left our helmets and tyre pump in the storage room - oops! After the bike ride Steph cooked a fantastic veggie lasagne, and I went out and bought a new TV. I can connect it to my computer, so now we can watch our downloaded TV and stuff on a big screen - ace.

On Sunday we went for lunch with some friends at Cardero's in Coal Harbour. Sunday afternoon was cleaning (boo) but I also made a bread and butter pudding for dessert, which was somewhat successful (it tasted pretty good, but was very wet). Monday, we went to see "There Will Be Blood" at the cinema (review coming soon) and then went to Vij's restaurant for some fab Indian food.

I reckon that was a pretty fine way to spend four days :)

An update on stuff...

It's been a busy few weeks, and I've finally found some time to do a little blogging about it all :)

So where were we? Yes, there was Whistler in February, but you know about that, and now you can see all the pictures (see my previous post). Since then both Steph and I have been very busy at work, but have found the time to get out and about at weekends, especially since the weather has been pretty good for the time of year - more than our usual share of dry and bright.

My friend Iain Brown, who I know from my old days working at Sony in Cambridge, was here in Vancouver for an EA company conference. He stayed with us for a few days and we hung out which was fun. We went to the Planetarium and the Space Exhibition which was cool, although really aimed for kids. They had a simulator ride which was a laugh, and we got to touch real Moon rock (I'll have to dig out that picture). Oh yes, and we went for a nice meal (with Chris and Katie too) at Bistro Pastis which is a great French restaurant. Anyway, I uploaded a few pictures from February to Flickr.

Last weekend I made a crazy whistle-stop visit to England to attend my youngest nephew's christening. It was a tiring few days, but it was great to see my family again and especially my niece and nephews, who are all growing up so fast. The christening itself was really good - great weather on the day and Zachary behaved perfectly. He spent the whole service staring at the Vicar, bless him. The trip back was kind of stressful, as it coincided with a big winter storm in England with very high winds. I didn't think I would make it back on time, and lots of flights were cancelled out of Heathrow but mine got away with no delays. Fantastic. I have a couple of photos from the christening that I uploaded, and I will try to get hold of some more - there were lots of people with cameras.

This week I had a dentist's appointment, and I'm finally going to get a clenching guard to protect my teeth at night. I have a nervous habit of clenching my teeth, mostly in the daytime I think, but the night guard should help. I really need to learn to relax a bit more, but I've always been a stress bunny and it's not getting better with age :) We also saw Yoav play which was awesome - the guy is so talented, and I think (and hope) he is going to be really big in 2008. Check him out. There are a few photos from the gig on Flickr.

Last night was our friend Lauren's 30th birthday, which was good fun. There was much drunken cuddling, as expected. It was a pretty late night, so today we are taking it easy and sorting out some boring stuff like taxes and so on. Looking forward to Easter weekend coming up, which means more days off - yay!

Whistler photos

It took a while, but I've assembled photos from various cameras from our Whistler weekend in February, and uploaded them to Flickr.

More updates to the blog coming soon (hopefully).