J&M got Maui'd!

I have been meaning to post this video for a while now, but we were in Ollivanders one night and.. It was certainly worth the wait.

Maggie and I went to Universal Studios Orlando yesterday and because the park was not too busy, we were able to check out most of the attractions in just the afternoon! Is Megatron trying to give me the bunny ears? One of the highlights was an appearance my Megatron, flanked with a number of NEST operatives.

Maggie and I are getting ready to travel to Orlando for some sun and fun. Well, she'll get most of the sun and fun. I'm spending half of my time doing work while I am down there. But hopefully we will be able to enjoy ourselves down south. I have never been to Disney World, or Universal Studios so it should be a good experience for me. Ah crap, I forgot my sunglasses. If it only had been brighter this morning..

Maggie and I visited the Kwongs in Ottawa this past weekend. She had Friday off so I took the day off so that we would be able to visit to the nation's capital for a few days. We were initially thinking of doing some governmental work for one of Gina's friends, but in the end we did not have to so we had the whole weekend to relax. The timing was good too since Nen and JF had already moved out to the Rockies and this weekend happened to be the last weekend that they would be back to finish cleaning up the house before moving for good. (We only found out about that when we e-mailed the week before leaving.) Part of the reason for visiting was a Seto tradition of showing off any new cars that we had purchased to the other family. Since Maggie had just gotten a Mazda 6 for her birthday, I figured that it would be a good time to go and visit, since as the last time we went was a couple of years ago. We drove up in the morning and arrived at the Inn a bit after lunch. After droppi...

On the twins' birthday, Alan and I took them out to Canoe for dinner. I had inquired at the beginning of the meal about a tour and our waiter told us that it was unlikely that they would like to have people walking through during the dinner service. Our meal did last a long time (our desserts taking some time to arrive) which coincidentally (or perhaps deliberately) matched with the end of the dinner service. So we ended up getting a tour of the kitchen and the rest of the restaurant after our meal while the staff were cleaning up. Oh, I also wanted to mention that our waiter looked very much like Russell Peters, with his own jokes and all. The meal was very good although the food was not as impressive as Auburge du Pommier, but the service was definitely top notch. On Valentine's day I took the afternoon off to take part in the Ontario Health Study before grabbing half a dozen roses and surprising Maggie at her new workplace. Her coworkers were complaining that I was sett...

I had a bit of a conundrum: What to do for Maggie's 30th birthday? Initially, I had planned on a huge surprise party with all of her friends and family. Now this gets a little difficult because Barb has the same birthdate, and she also probably would want something special for her 30th. So I checked with Alan. He didn't have too many ideas either. Initially, we had thought of going on some sort of romantic trip to Quebec City, where we would stay for a few days and enjoy some winter festivals. I thought of staying in one of the ice hotels. But because Barb's schedule is so limiting, we could not go for long, and flights were not cheap, and trains were not cheap, and driving would take a long time. We did continue to work on this plan for months. We actually tried planning out our trip to include lunch/dinner at a nice restaurant in the eastern Ontario as well. I did like the idea of surprising them with friends and family, but Quebec City was far. I set my sights to...

I have been pretty terrible at posting the blog entries from our honeymoon. I just have not had enough time to go through all of the pictures to write up stories about them. I did start and posted one day, but something about blogger corrupted my entry and wiped out everything. Since then I have been very suspicious of the software, and it has since happened twice more.   In any case, I found out the software that our photographer used to create our wedding slideshow, so I tried it out with some of our honeymoon photos. I've decided to put it up here so that people will at least get an idea of what we did in Hawai'i..