Best friends

Hamming it up on Rue St-Dominique

Home for halloween

French arteest & Le Petit Chaperon rouge

Hockey sur glace...at last

Well it finally happened. Last night I played hockey…in Paris. Fantastic!!! After months of searching the web, our family doctor made a couple of calls (one to a contact at the Canadian embassy – daaa), and I was on my way to Colombes for my first practice.

I took the metro (x2 transfers), a regional train, and grabbed a lift with a new team mate, and played with 15 guys (all French except for 2 other Canadians) in a “practice/scrimmage session”. They are a hockey club of mixes ages (mostly +30) that practice (pick up x2) a week, and have friendly matches every other weekend.

I was very out of shape, and puffing almost immediately, but must have showed a little Canadian moxy as they asked me if I would join, and could I play in their matches? :). They are the only club at their rink, so you can permanently leave your equipment in the dressing room - a nice feature! It’s a bit of a trek to get out there, but I am totally psyched.

My body, and mental well being will get a big lift and I can practice my French with my new teammates. Here is a link to the club website http://www.geocities.com/millepattesdecolombes/ which is two years out of date, but as Guy, my hockey guy embassy contact says, you’ll get the idea. More on the hockey sur glace scene in Paris later…

14 days in Canada

Our return from 14 eventful days in Canada has unfortunately left us no hard visual memories - our camera was on the fritz for most of the trip. The captions below are meant for the missing photos.

- Princess Poppy & Princess Disa Trick or Treating with their cousin, Fairy Princess Grace

- Mimi, Poppy & Disa biding on boxes of dolls, at the Gordon's auction - Sold!

- Rupert & Shawn lighting the fireworks at Mark & Cherry's Guy Fawkes Party

- Poppy & Disa in awe of the burning Coyote "Guy", on the massive bonfire at Guy Fawkes

- Cherry & Rupert gleefully taking pocession of our new cottage/farm
rental property

- Poppy & Disa helping Paddy clean up the windfall's from the front lawn

- Jo loving holding 6 week old Cameryn, at the Running Mom's get together

- Rupert & Blair sharing a pint at the Sens game

- Disa helping her cousin Lila blow out the candles, on her birthday cake

- Jo with Suzette & Craig on their Wedding day - Congratulations!