Where's Wally (AKA Anthony)?

Where's Wally?

Is Anthony in Woburn Sands or Ashburn, Virgina??? Mmm, we wonder!

Only a few days left until Nancy and I fly out to Washington DC to find out in person.

Ice Cream Heaven has been found in Vancouver

Saturday afternoon saw Nancy, Wendy and myself stumble across ice cream heaven, right here in Vancouver. Driving across the city we just happened to pass an ice cream store in an industrial area. Turns out, this place sold over 500 different flavours of ice cream with 218 flavours on constant display. It was mecca for an ice cream lover! Some of the numerous and exotic flavours included curry, wasabi, fenal, rhubarb crumble, cinnamon... the list goes on and on. Let's just say that all our future visitors to Vancouver will have this as a destination.

Also as a side story, our Sunday brunch was shared with none other than Joshua Jackson... famous from the TV show Dawson Creek and various movies. Mixing it with the celebrities.

Golf and Sunshine in Kelowna

It is about a year ago, that I was in Kelowna for the first time and Nancy joined me for a few days of relaxation in the sun and we visited the local vineyards. This year, my golf game has improved and I completed two rounds of golf in the last couple of days, as part of a Dealer corporate event. My golf score has improved, but I'm still somewhere off from being considered a decent golfer, but I did achieve my first birdie + a drive of over 250 yards.

The real highlight of the trip was an evening dinner at Summerhill winery, which is claimed to be the most visited winery in the whole of Canada. We took the dealers there for the last night dinner and it was the most spectacular view of the lake, west bank, downtown Kelowna and the night sky. We sat out on the patio, enjoying a mix of red and white wine, fantastic food, desert and iced desert wine. Topped off by seeing shooting stars over head.

On the last afternoon in Kelowna, I took the opportunity to spend Friday afternoon on a speed boat out on the lake and enjoyed the cool water for a swim. I know, I can hear it now.... tough day at work!

I didn't get any photos of my Kelowna trip, but I was back early on Saturday morning to Vancouver and received an invite by Scott M and Nancy to join them in the local park in Coal Harbour. I thought it was appropriate to illustrate the fine weather and view of our summer in British Columbia in the picture.

No Tennis, No Pink Laptop, but off to Kelowna

With a foggy, raining Saturday our plans to attend the Vancouver Tennis Open were washed out, so my planned blog post was scuppered. Emily's suggestion for the blog was a pretty picture of her new PINK laptop. I think not.

This week, I can look forward to a couple of rounds of golf in Kelowna as my company is holding its annual golf event for the MB dealers. This means I can get some sunshine and brush up on my golf game. I am also looking forward to having dinner at the Summerhill Winery, which is suppose to have amazing, scenic views of the Okanagon valley.

The England Boys

I have a great boss, Ted, but he is Canadian and he takes enormous pleasure in torturing the British members of his team with all sorts of stereotyping. Things recently escalated due to the England team's poor showing at the footy world cup and the devastating 4-1 defeat to zie Germans.

Today the four Brits in the office decided to take a stand and demonstrate a British stiff upper lip by wearing our England footy shirts to our monthly team meeting. All to the soundtrack of the Great Escape theme tune! Small victory for the British Empire.

Happy 1st Anniversary to Em & Kris

Many congratulations to Emily and Kris King on their 1st wedding anniversary. In the words of Emily herself, now they can officially get a divorce!

We wish them all the best on their happy day and look forward to seeing them in person at the end of the month.