Parade

The year has begun in earnest.....

Everyone is busy, music, work, school. Narayan visited this yesterday. It is really nice to see him.

And the sun looks so pretty in the yard this morning.

Joe Hynes' wedding

Flower girl Genevieve takes the floor.

Andy's band played.

School!

 Chiara started school yesterday. 

Nick and Laura where happy to start school today.

College Update: 2nd Year

   This past Sunday I left home for my second year at the University of Guelph. This year I will be living in the East Village Townhouses. It is on the east side of campus and is arranged sort of like a village of townhouses. It is about the same distance from everything as last year, but I don't have to jay walk across a major road to class. Although it is mostly up hill. I don't start classes until Thursday. I have been mostly hanging out in my room. I have been a wee bit social though. I had dinner with my housemate Sarah. She is from the UK. She's nice, I like her. I met her parents too, they were nice too. It must be a family thing. I also went to some yoga classes with my other housemate Heather. She is the one from Rochester. I have another housemate from China, but I haven't seen her since the first day. Seemed nice though.
   In the house we have a kitchen with a fridge and stove, a little living room with chairs and a couch, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 shower rooms and 4 closets. Susi had the brilliant idea of putting my butterfly chair in there, so mine isn't a closet, I like to call it Jo's Place To Chill In The Dark Or With The Lights On, but that is a mouth full so you can call it JPTCITDOWTLO. I didn't realize this until Heather pointed it out to me, but one of the walls in my room is green. It's also kinda cold, but I like it.
  Today, Heather and I decided to go food shopping. It was pouring outside. We took the bus down to the store, Metro, to buy food. We had to walk to the mall to catch a bus back. We got really wet, but it wasn't until we had to make the walk from the bus back to the house that we got drenched. And I mean drenched. I had to change all my clothes before we got lunch. Good news is that my raincoat actually works, but water dripped in from the collar. It dried up eventually. I made myself dinner today. it turned out well. I had pasta with shiitake mushrooms and caramelized onions. It wasn't salted enough, but other than that it was pretty good. I only had to call Hannah twice for help.
  Well anyway, it's getting late and I'm tired so this is the end of the post.

I am happy with my newly built small wall.

More interesting pics on flickr.

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

At Make

with Nick & Laura

I must admit I am counting the days till school starts. Its been challenging keeping the twins entertained these past couple of weeks. Yesterday we went to Make a fun though expensive craft place on 3ed and 84 st.

Today We went to Blue Smoke, the one way down town, near Battery Park. Its been a long time since I have gone down there, in fact this is the first time I have seen the new tower.
Chandran and Chiara took the bikes with Laura in tow, and Nicky and I the subway. After Lunch we walked along the water, Laura and I took the subway this time and Nicky went on the bike.

More photos on Flickr