Drinking Amongst Hunters
We took a trip out to Dunham, QC today for a little birthday picnic and wine tasting at Vignoble les Blancs Coteaux. It was a beautiful day, and the setting would have been peaceful if it weren’t for the constant muted rifle fire in the distance.
More photos available in my SmugMug gallery.
Hiking Mount Jo/Heart Lake
Concordia Outdoors took a trip out to Saranac Lake, New York for a little bit of hikin’. The weather held out admirably aside from a light sprinkling while we were on the peak. I brought my zoom lenses and managed to get a couple of decent shots.
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…And The Living Is Easy
I spent a weekend in Toronto just chilling out with my friend Layla. I didn’t really get to snap many photos, but I started an album regardless. I’ll get more next time I’m down.
The best part of the weekend, aside from meeting a bunch of cool folks, was probably just kicking it in Belwood Park, having a picnic and generally chilling out, on a beautiful Sunday.
InterNOT!
I’ve been sitting in a café in Toronto trying to connect to some Wifi hotspot — and it ain’t working. Apparently they’re more than happy to take my payment info and then crap out — so avoid OneZone High Speed Internet at all costs. I’ve managed to get about five minutes of surfing time in. Well done, Toronto Hydro Telecom.
Someone’s going to be receiving a very tersely worded letter soon.
Countdown to Oz
After years of hemming and hawing, I’ve finally gone ahead and booked a trip to Sydney, Australia.
Backstory: Best buds Darren and Jodi moved there few years back for school and such, right around the same time that I entered the hell known as engineering school. I’ve wanted to go visit since then, but being in an co-op program means that for the entire length of my program, including summers, I’m either taking classes or working at an internship — in other words, no more than a week to ten days off between semesters.
And the kicker is that they’re coming back to Montreal in the spring of 2009. So my window of opportunity to visit the other side of the globe on the cheap is rapidly closing.
Well, I’ve got eight months of work term coming up, from May through December, and I’ve decided that I’m going to take advantage of the two weeks of Christmas break and get the hell out of Dodge. I booked my airplane ticket Wednesday (on United, bleh). The countdown begins. I’m putting the ticket in my safety deposit box until then because I know I’ll otherwise lose it sometime between now and, say, August.
Sadly, because I have
- only two weeks for traveling
- very little money after airfare
it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to travel outside of Sydney too much, but that’s okay. I’m mostly going to see D&J anyhow. But, if anyone’s got any tips or recommendations for things to do out there, let me know.
Oh, and because I know I’m going to catch flak for this from a certain someone: Helsinki is next on my list — probably February 2009.
