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Where to start??? Ok, take a
deep breath and here we go…….
Things we like:
-
Hanging out with Ben and Grace
- Travel – if only we could
win the lottery
- Kayaking/canoeing –
we finally got our own real kayaks
- Fishing – as long as dad or
Scot are there to take the fish off the hook
- Gardening – we both love our yard and all the
perennials & vegetables we've got growing
- Wii - especially Sports and Guitar Hero
- Photography – both of us -
thank goodness for
digital
cameras and large memory cards
- Our awesome parks and paths in the area we live -
love doing the Spencer Gorge hiking loop
- Other amenities of the area...Spencer Smith Park
& all the festivals
- Having friends over -
always
- Sitting on our back deck watching thunderstorms
- Helping the environment by simply using our
clothesline and rain barrel
- Snorkelling – first time in
Cuba, but got our own gear now and had an awesome time using it in
Hawaii
- The
Vancouver Canucks – the
Twins, Sammi, Ohlund, we miss Ruutu…
- White Water Rafting – Heather aspires to become a guide
- Camping – nothing like
sitting by campfire, though we are “comfort campers”
- Stained Glass Window making
– thanks to John at Carousel Glass in New Westminster
- Snow Boarding
– Andy has got quite proficient
-
Snow Tubing
– Heather prefers her backside already on the ground
- Ziptrekking
was
tres cool
- Board games – Carcassonne, Backgammon, Pictionary, Taboo, Cranium...
- Hockey (ice) – Andy played for several years,
Heather advises – previous team is the
Sirens (Div. 3B), who regrouped after a year. During that
year, Andy played for the
Salsa (Div. 1) in Richmond, BC. Formerly played with the Sirens
(Assistant, Div. 3), The Tigers (Captain and Manager, Div. Novice
and 1)
and the Blades (Div.
Novice & 1),
Burnaby
- Swimming – Heather used to swim Masters Club,
then enjoyed
C.G. Brown Pool
in Burnaby, and in August 2005 accomplished her goal of
swimming
Buntzen Lake from beach to beach - 2.8 kilometres in 1 hour, 22
minutes
- Music – no Eminem or Bublé,
and Gwen Stefani should've never left No Doubt
– Pop, Rock, Heather likes country – love MP3 format – Andy’s from
her Palm, Heather's from her
Zen Micro
- Biking - away from cars and
pedestrians
- F1 -
Formula One Racing – Kimi, Fernando, Jenson, Niko...
- Squash – Andy misses her
nemesis who moved away – Heather is no match
- Keeping our computers
running & updated – we like power (Heather's job)
- Movie making – Heather
builds on her 14 years of radio background to make personal and corporate videos
- Downhill
mountain biking – Andy enjoys her bike’s suspension and uphill
bound busses with bike racks at the front – yes, she even wears body
armour
-
Curling – Heather misses it, we even ran the league for a year
- Scuba – learned in Cuba,
Heather almost drowned due to poor instruction then chickened out,
Andy had a blast
- Rugby – Andy played in
university, watches Five
Nations Tourney on TV
- Ping Pong
- Badminton
- Bowling
- Bocce
- Liana Marcela – our
Columbian
Foster Child
- Movies – favourites like
Shawshank Redemption, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Bond, Indiana Jones...
- Reading – Andy loves
Harry Potter,
Heather misses Madeleine from “The Way the Crow Flies” -
Ann-Marie
MacDonald
- Theatre (and Heather likes
musicals) – Shaw Festival, Fringe Festival, Shakespeare, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia, Phantom...
- Woodcarving – Andy is
getting quite talented
- Sewing – Andy’s swift with
a needle or her Singer
- Andy loves watching
athletics – high-jumping, javelin throwing, foot races
- Andy rode across the Atlas
Mountains in Morocco in her youth
- Andy Hang
Glided many moons ago – her arm will never be the same
- Playing catch (softball or
Nerf football)
- Female art – sculpture and
prints
- Flush toilets at camping –
even in the “outhouses”
- Daniel Craig as Bond, though
Pierce Brosnan is quite acceptable
- Tex-Mex food –
with jalapeños - Really miss the spicier stuff you can get in
Vancouver compared to Burlington
-
Tim
Horton's Boston Crèmes,
ok, well just anything Timmy's really
-
Starbuck's Chantico’s
Favourite places we’ve been,
non-locally:
-
Ottawa
-
Hawaii - stayed
beachside in Kaanapali on
Maui - another
slice of heaven. Watch "whale soup" right from our beach and a
boat cruise. Snorkeled "Black
Rock", "Molokini"
and "Turtle
Arches" checking out tropical fish and huge honu (green sea
turtles). Took a
helicopter over
Haleakalā crater, then drove up it as well. Enjoyed an
authentic
Luau.
-
Baltic Cruise - Departed
Dover, England, then visited
Warnemünde /Rostock in
Germany,
Tallinn in Estonia,
St. Petersburg in Russia,
Helsinki in
Finland,
Stockholm in Sweden,
Copenhagen including
Tivoli Gardens in
Denmark
-
Cuba – a slice of heaven
-
San Francisco/Palo
Alto/Stanford
- Alcatraz,
Pier 39 & the
Sea Lions,
the Cable
Cars and their Museum,
the Presidio, the
Golden Gate Bridge, the
Castro District - love the
city, including the architecture
-
Alaska,
on a cruise
- England –
London,
Birmingham,
Cambridge,
Windsor,
Bristol,
Leeds Castle,
Tower of London,
Tower
Bridge,
Buckingham Palace,
St. Paul's Cathedral, The
London Eye,
Westminster Abbey,
Big Ben, London Double
Decker Bus Tour,
Warwick Castle with a jousting competition,
Greenwich and the
Meridian Line
-
Disney World, Florida
-
Whitehorse,
Yukon
- Camping/exploring all over BC –
the
Okanagan,
Manning Park,
Liard Hot Springs,
Cultus Lake,
Barkerville Historic town,
Englishman River Falls on
Vancouver Island,
Tyhee Lake near gorgeous
Smithers...
-
Victoria a few times -
love the Laurel Point Inn
- Alberta -
Lake Louise,
Banff, the
Icefields Parkway and Athabasca Glacier in the
Colombia Icefields
-
Nashville, Tennessee -
The Opryland Hotel
-
Seattle,
Washington – The
Space Needle,
Pike Place Market,
Aquarium,
Museum
of Flight (Boeing)
-
Chicago
- Heather’s been to Canada’s
East Coast
- Andy’s been all over Europe
-
WAC Bennett,
Peace Canyon and
Stave Falls Dams (dinosaur footprints), northern BC
Favourite things we’ve done/been
to, locally:
- RibFest (Canada's Largest right here in
Burlington)
- Winona Peach Festival
- Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake
- Niagara Falls, and we even got married there
- Canada's Wonderland
- The RBG
- The Sound of Music Festival
Back when we lived in BC, 1997 - 2007:
Places we like to go:
Favourite shows:
- Grey's
Anatomy
- House
- Criminal Minds
- CSI (original)
- Without A Trace
- Law and
Order: SVU
- Star Trek – Next Gen,
Voyager primarily, but DS9, Enterprise and original will suffice
- Extreme Engineering
- ER
- Holmes on Homes
- How It’s Made
- The L Word
- We totally miss Queer As
Folk
- We are
closet Housewives watchers
Things we don’t like:
- Seafood, aside from
traditional Fish’n Chips
- Noisy neighbours
- Short-lived laptop
batteries
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