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Updates from August, 2005

  • Amanda was more than generous for my birthday this year and got me a round of golf at Silvertip golf course in Canmore. They weren’t even that busy that day so I was the only one in my group and Amanda was able to ride along in the cart and take lots of pictures. The scenery was beautiful, it was a great day, and the course was amazing. They even have GPS in the carts so that you know exactly how far you are from the green and even the group in front of you. With all of these awesome “features” of the course, it was sometimes hard to remember that I was actually out there playing golf!

    If you want to see the pictures, check them out here!

    UPDATE: Due to the requests in the comments, I will reveal my score. Although I had no feel around the super fast greens, I squeaked out an 89 down the stretch. I would have liked to have scored better since I hit the ball really well, but it’s not bad for not playing much this year and all of the “distractions” of the mountains!


    Andy 12:51 pm on 8/20/2005 | 2 Permalink | Reply

     

  • Hi everyone,

    We’re back from New Zealand after our wonderful honeymoon. We didn’t want our time there to end as it went by so quickly. We took about 600 pictures (sorry if that’s too many for all of you) and you can find them in the Photos section – there is a new album there with many sub-albums of the honeymoon pictures.

    We picked up the photos and negatives from the wedding photographer today – we’ll hopefully have some of those scanned soon and put up on the website as well. My uncle also captured some great photos of the wedding so we’ll also try to integrate some of those as well as photos taken with our camera (thanks Scott).

    I start medical school tomorrow – I’ll try and get back to doing regular updates, but things might be a bit busy for the next little while.


    Andy 9:36 pm on 8/2/2005 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

  • On Tuesday, some people from my lab headed out to the mountains for Lab Ski Day 2005. The weather was outstanding as you can see from the pictures – by mid-afternoon it was easily above 10 degrees! Plus, with it being a Tuesday, it felt like we had the mountains to ourselves and were able to get a good number of runs in. Spring skiing in Alberta is one of the best times to be out there – the snow gets nice and soft in the afternoon and you never have to worry about getting cold. The scenery is magnificent and you just enjoy the day!

    You can see the pictures here.


    Andy 7:52 am on 4/21/2005 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

  • More photos are now posted. I’ve just updated The Great Outdoors section of the photo album with pictures from our hike along Heart Creek Trail a couple weeks ago as well as pictures from this past weekend’s backcountry camping trip to Ribbon Lake. The Ribbon Lake photos are in reverse order in a way since we didn’t take any pictures on our hike to the lake, but instead waited for the trip back down. That should help make a bit more sense of them. The pictures where we are holding the chains are not just for show – we actually climbed up and down those steep rock faces with our full packs on our backs. It was a lot of hard work but worth it when we finally got up to Ribbon lake and our campsite as it was simply beautiful!


    Andy 9:07 am on 7/27/2004 | 2 Permalink | Reply

     

  • The long-awaited photos from our trip to Brazil are finally posted. It took me a while to organize all the photos from three different sources but they are finally ready for viewing. They are arranged by location and I hope to eventually have descriptions for each, but for now, it’s just the pictures. You can see them here.

    Hopefully I’ll have the pictures from our camping trip and hike from a few weeks ago posted later this week. Enjoy!


    Andy 8:04 pm on 7/26/2004 | 1 Permalink | Reply

     

  • Just a quick update to let everyone know that we made it back in one piece from our camping weekend. We are exhausted though after the 3.5 hour hike with full packs on to get to the campsite at Ribbon Lake yesterday and then the return trip today. We are sore everywhere! I’ll try and get the pictures up soon, but I’ve made a deal with myself that no new pictures get posted until the Brazil ones are up – so until I sort all those out, just stay tuned!


    Andy 3:38 pm on 7/25/2004 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

  • After riding to work on a cheap bike for a few years now, it was time to upgrade to something at least half-decent. I didn’t want a bike that I was going to have to worry about locking up outside everyday, but still wanted to be able to do a bit of trail riding. After some research and taking a couple for a spin, I decided on the Kona Fire Mountain. I picked it up last night and took it for a little ride. Today will be the first day it makes the trek to work. I can’t wait!

    UPDATE: The bike made it to work and back. I had to make a pitstop back at Bow Cycle to get the gears readjusted since I was having a bit of trouble. A few minutes in the shop and it was good to go! I never knew riding could be so much fun. I even managed to get up Home Road Hill on my way home! I’ll have to get it out on the trails soon…


    Andy 9:12 am on 7/15/2004 | 0 Permalink | Reply

     

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