Busy, but exciting week

I'll attempt to keep up with the blogging this week.

I start my course at Sir Sanford Fleming College this week. I'll tyr to keep you updated with how it goes. I'm really excited about it.

We spent the weekend at Valerie & Tom's (for the annual get together) weekend. It was smaller than usual, a lot of the younger crowd didn't make it. There were 10 people and 5 dogs.

Great time!

When did that happen???

Okay, so I was on the subway ... the crowded rush-hour subway. A seat became vacant in front of me, so I quickly looked around the car to see if there are any "old people" nearby so that I could point the seat out. Mum always toaught us that the older people should get the seats and you should always offer your seat if there is an older person standing on the subway or bus.

I scan the car to the left of me ... nope ..... scan the car to the right and my eyes met a young pretty woman, perhaps 25 years old - tops. She point to the seat and indicates that I should take the seat.

To my horror, I realized, I was the "old person" on the subway.

When the heck did that happen???

Spamalot

Okay, so tomorrow is the big day. The Lexiphage and Fiddling Granny are going to see Spamalot.

Should be fun, the play's promotional material says the show features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless knight.

Here's part of the write-up.

Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT is the outrageous new musical comedy lovingly ripped off from the film classic Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Directed by Tony Award-winner Mike Nichols, SPAMALOT tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. Flying cows, killer rabbits, taunting Frenchmen and show-stopping musical numbers are just a few of the reasons audiences everywhere are eating up SPAMALOT.

Watch the Lexiphage's blog (see right for link) for the critique.

He's far more wor(d)thy of writing the critique than I am.

A Post from Muggins

I hate that stupid new camera.

If I close my eyes, it won't be able take a picture of me!!

Update

Okay, so I haven't been busy blogging as often as I was. Things are getting back to normal after our vacation in Newfoundland - at least I thought they were on Monday, but after the storm went through, our electricity was off for 48 hours (not as bad as some folks had it!).

Anyway, I got a new camera ... a Canon digital camera and it totally rocks! I took this picture the other morning. Aside from wandering down to the lovely still lake, I can't take much credit for the picture. This camera takes awesome pictures.

Our trip to Newfoundland was terrific, what a beautiful, friendly place. The rugged scenery is incredible. We saw a terrific music group at Rocky Harbour, called Anchors Aweigh. We've been playing their CDs and singing their music ever since.

It rained at least once every day we were there, except the day we left. We got soaked to the skin a couple of times. The morning of the day we were leaving, when we got up the sky was blue and it was warm and sunny.

The wind on Signal Hill in St John's is not to be believed! It blows relentlessly up there and we were not there on a bad day according to some of the local people! You can even tell by the picture of the four of us that it's blowing.

Perhaps it was outdone by the on-shore breeze at the campground right on the beach outside Port au Choix. We camped on the beach and the wind blew unceasingly there too.

To give you an idea of the wind, check out this swing in this picture. When we arrived at the campground in the late afternoon this swing was horizontal in the "breeze". It was like that all night and continued to defy gravity when we left the next day.

All in all it was a terrific trip. We all agreed that we must go back. Two weeks was not even close to enough tiem to see everything there is to see.

We had our family reunion on July 15th. What a terrific time we all had too. I've tried four times to post a picture from that but I guess blogger is too busy, so I'll have to do that another time.

Where's Granny Been??

Well for the last two days she's been living in darkness. I have so much to blog about, stuff likeNewfoundland and the reunion, but no time right now. Just thought I'd check in since we have had no electricity since Monday night's storm until an hour ago.

Yay ... we have lights!

I'll plough through the emails and stuff and then blog soon.