Christmas and Boxing Day

We spent Christ­mas morn­ing the way many do — open­ing ‘stock­ing’ presents in our paja­mas, and eat­ing choco­late and man­darin oranges.  We had ‘sticky buns’ (cin­na­mon buns to me) for break­fast, then opened our ‘non-santa’ presents.  For lunch, I made my first attempt at Wife Saver.  It’s a pretty great recipe, if you’ve never tried it — basi­cally a french toast/fritatta casse­role thingy.  And super-tasty.  Look it up if you are unfamiliar!

For Christ­mas Din­ner, we went back over to The Lucas’s — The same fam­ily that hosted the gin­ger­bread extrav­a­ganza on Christ­mas Eve (it should be noted that this

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Early Winter Update!

Drenched at Nia­gara Falls Orig­i­nally uploaded by Blue I’x

Apolo­gies for the abrupt stop of blog entries some­where through our Burn­ing man trip… We didn’t get Inter­net access again on the trip, and then got caught-up in the non-travel uni­verse once we got home.

It got put off. For months. Again, apolo­gies. So now, some updates.

The rest of our Burn­ing man trip was amaz­ing. To me, it was the best of all my 4 Burns. It was really windy/dusty/stormy for a lot of it — but I can’t com­plain, the extreme cli­mate is part of what I love about

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Toronto

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Last week, Brian was sent to Toronto for some work-related train­ing. I decided to come along, because I’d never been to Toronto before.

Brian flew out Tues­day night, and I came out Wednes­day night. Brian worked dur­ing the days Wednes­day to Fri­day, and I shopped. Our hotel was right on Bloor Street, so there were plenty of stores and inter­est­ing things to look at.

On Thurs­day night, we had sushi (at Sushi Inn) with our friends Josh and Mel, and then went to Moro Co for lattes and choco­late for dessert.

On Fri­day

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