Today was the final day of the season for mt. seymour, one of the locals here in Vancouver. . . and boy what a day! We head out in the morning with a healthy cloudy with sunny breaks forecast in store. Visibility wasn't too bad from the start and the 3cm of fresh provided some freshly groomed runs. It's hard to believe that its mid April and the snow is still falling. More than that, with a 300cm base at the parking lot, you have to question why they would be shutting it down so early.

With a few runs under our belts, it started to lightly snow again as we headed in for lunch. As we watched from the window of the cafeteria, the view became a wall of white. It was dumping! A quick bite to eat and we were back on our way up the lift. Not more than a few meters on the chair and the falling snow started to fade. . . only to revealing a backdrop of blue sky. Within 5 mins we were now sitting in pure sunshine.

昨日は、奈々ちゃんのお家で夜１０時から鍋パーティーをしました。
参加メンバー７名。うち５名は二児の母。
みなさんお子様達を旦那様にお任せし、ガールズナイトで盛り上がりました。
鍋のメインはギンダラと大カレイで、あっさりと味ぽんで。おいしかったー！！
そしてデザートには和菓子＆ケーキが登場！！
鍋をたらふく食べて「もう無理ー！」っと言っていたわりに、お饅頭二個ぺろりとたいらげました。私はケーキよりも餡子派です。そしてデリックも餡子大好き！名古屋で暮らしていた頃、デリックはアンパン４個入りを買って１０分たたないうちに完食していました。私には一つも残さず・・・。

As a sort of pre-honeymoon, graduation celebration, "while we're still in Canada" mishmash, the wife and I have decided to go off to the Rockies. Our options were to either rent a car and drive from Vancouver, take a train or fly into Calgary before renting a car and cruising around the Banff area. We opted for door number 3, as it's the least amount of work and flights aren't too expensive. . .

Without too much research, here is what we came up with. WestJet was the cheapest flight, offering a seat sale of $71 each way per person. Of course taxes and fees tack on another 50% or so, but not too bad of a deal.

Well after some scary downtime, my blog is back up. Bigger, better, shinier and it smells a whole lot nicer too. Go ahead, take a sniff. Seems to appear ok in FF 1.5.01 and IE6, but let me know if anything comes up.

The move was rather interesting to say the least. I ended up moving to a new account on CPanel and in doing so, managed to export the DB in the wrong format. So I lost most of the Japanese I had on the site. Meh. Managed to scavenge a few things from google's cache and dumped them over at jccafe, where they rightly belong anyways. Also gone are the image nodes, as Flickr makes things easy enough and I don't think we'll be uploading too many pics.