Hiking in the sun

What a day. It started of chilly at just bellow freezing at our house this morning but was well worth it when we got to the top of a beautifully clear Rattlesnake ledge.

Some more lost Last supper club pictures

Some more pictures from when Gibbs & Daenna came over :-)

Eeyore got his nasty little claws on the prototype

Pauline we love you

See Pauline we told you we would send you the pic to show you what we were doing when you called!


Salut!


See we told you we cared

Pauline' little pony

Pauline sent this picture of Millennium playing in the snow. Isn't it awesome?


Photo by Pauline

Adventures in Kirklandia

Today we went for breakfast in Kirklandia to a place called Hectors. The food wasn't bad although the experience was somewhat bizaar. We arrived and we had a very snooty, very gay, very young Maître d'who was quite unpleasant to deal with. The food was adequate even though the coffee was undrinkable. As a result I wouldn't recommend it and to be honest am probably not going to go back again. Advice to Hectors don't treat your customers like sh!t, they don't come back if you do.


Hector's in Kirkland

Interestingly Kirkland seemed dead today. Most of the restaurants were fairly empty and hardly anyone was on the street. I wonder if this might be signs of the economic slowdown starting to hit home. We went for a bit of a walk and found some great coffee mugs. I also saw the most amazing cookies today (yes I have a sweet tooth :) )




We also went past Chris and Shelley's old place which was a bit depressing as we had some good memories there.


Chris & Shelley's old place

The angels visited us today

Our prayers were heard! CJ and Pauline dropped by with some coffee! Life can continue and balance has been returned to universe once again! I believe the appropriate expression for this would be "We are blessed..."


Nespresso variety and arpeggio packs

Thanks guys! You rock!

And some more New Years photos

Well I had to put these up!


The coveted pepper grinder


CJ and Allan both have a knife fetish.


Riddle me this Leprechaun can yea spin the golde out of this straw


The cake is good!

Chefs at work

I can honestly say this was the most divine Beef Wellington I have had! The meat was perfectly cooked and ever so tender, the pastry crisp and delicious and the mushroom and cognac sauce was to die for!

As you can see our host and hostess were hard at work ensuring the perfection!


Beef Wellington preparation


And the finished creation!

Happy New Year 2009!

The evidence is in! Need I say any more? :-)


Woooot!

New Years 2009 Dinner

Last night we had New Years dinner at CJ and Pauline’s. The food was magnificent as always and I can say without a shadow of doubt that the “usual suspects” (you know who you are) lost out big time on this one!

What better way to start these posts of with then to show you the menu!


Prosciutto and parmesan salad with truffle vinaigrette


Lemon sorbet


Coquille St Jacques a la provencale


Beef Welington


Dobos torte (more information here)


Baked Cheesecake


And of course Champagne

21 again and I got a suprise party

I am the luckiest person in the world. My fantastic wife organized a surprise party at the last minute with our wonderful friends. Terri, Allan, Susan and Daniel and of course CJ and Pauline were all there! Thank you for a fantastic evening you guys all are awesome!

Martha Stewart would be proud!

We had a white Christmass

Hi Chris and Shelly
We just got your card and wanted to let you know that we had an awesome "White Christmas". Now when are you guys going to move back? :-)

Some more snow pictures for CJ and Pauline

Tonight we picked up CJ and Pauline at the airport and took them home to discover that most of the snow had melted. Here are some more pictures of what the house looked like whilst we were there (see there was some snow ;-) )

Origami at Daniels

CJ demonstrating some impromptu origami at Susan's birthday.

Visiting San Diego

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Gibb's and Dayna at there home in San Diego. Here are a couple of pics.