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Europa Park

Posted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019 By admin
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Ben and I took advantage of the yearly work outing to europapark. It was a long, but good, day. We had to be at the NRC car park for 6am,so that meant a 4:30 wake up call to pack snacks, passports and other essentials and head out. It was a 4h coach drive up there and a similar journey back.

Once we got there, it was pretty much just the 2 of us because we didn’t see any one from work for the whole time we were there.

I’d definitely go back. Compared to legoland, it’s bigger, generally cheaper once you’re in it (food prices were surprisingly reasonable) but it’s really not well signposted. There were several times where we just couldn’t find the rides we wanted to do. Waiting times were between 5 and 45 minutes, so that was fairly good. In the course of the day, we did:

Da Vinci flyer
Haunted house
Silverstone circuit
Swiss bobsled
Windjammer (3 times – Ben’s favourite ride)
Fjord rafting
Tyrolean log flume
Mountain train ride
Observation tower
Flying Dutchman (Ben only, twice)

As well as fighting off wasps while eating snack foods and Ben trying to win giant cuddly toys in rigged carny games.

https://www.flubu.com/blog/pictures/europapark_sep_2019/

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Back to school

Posted on August 26, 2019August 27, 2019 By admin

Dear lawd, Bean is now a high school freshman. How the hell did that happen? First day of new school went well – even if it does start an hour sooner. Hopefully the trend will maintain itself over the year :)

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He’s our boy

Posted on August 11, 2019August 14, 2019 By admin

A sausage roll and a shandy. Wonder from which side of the family he gets which bit.

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Not impromptu but very satisfying

Posted on June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 By admin

Been craving sushi for a while, and been wanting to make sushi for a while. So I did. Didn’t have any fish at hand, we had been filet tataki, some teriyaki chicken and a tamago omelette. Ben did the rolling, I did all the other prep. Highly satisfying, even if the kitchen looked like a warzone afterwards.

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Benzo Ferrari and his mobility scooter

Posted on April 20, 2019April 24, 2019 By admin

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Ben goes to Canada

Posted on March 5, 2019March 18, 2019 By admin
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Ben had a week-long school holiday at the end of February, while I was on medical leave. Initially, my mom had offered to come over but, after discussion, we decided that it would be easier to ship Ben to Canada on his own. He arrived in Montreal and spent the night there. He, Nat & the boys were all supposed to go to my mom’s place on the weekend for my cousin’s wedding. The weather turned for the worse though, so they ended up with only Ben being dropped off/picked up in Hawkesbury. He then spent the week skiing, snowshoeing, sewing and shopping. Nat and the guys came the next weekend, so my mom had a full house for a couple of days – before Ben and Nat had to go back to Montreal for the return trip.

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Rather proud of the child

Posted on February 22, 2019March 3, 2019 By admin

Ben has boarded his solo flight to Canada. He’s excited about the trip, a bit anxious about the exact process, and is looking forward to seeing his cousins, aunts, grandparents and new dog. I’m rather impressed with doofus. He’s seriously grown up in the last couple of years and becoming more and more confident and independent. He can still be a right pain in the backside, but at his core, he’s a good kid and we done good. For the flight itself, as long as he has food, drink and a movie, he’ll be happy.

He just sent this to Katy. We still need to work on his English spelling, lol (his French is getting remarkably good).

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Packing for camp

Posted on January 11, 2019 By admin

Every year or so, Bean goes to a summer or winter camp with school. This is him packing for camp. He has the essentials. Snowsuit, underwear, pj’s, socks, cat…

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Feeding time at the zoo

Posted on January 2, 2019January 7, 2019 By admin

We tried to feed Bean to several wild animals today but they already had their own provisions. 

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The child is happy with Santa’s visit

Posted on December 25, 2018 By admin

For as much as he can drive us up the wall, we’re glad the child is happy with his presents. He got some lego, some books, a Desigual jumper, a Nintendo labo kit, some tickets to Totem (!), some money and his weight in refined sugar. 

Katy got some books, some dvds, some chocolate and Champagne (from one of her clients), some money and tickets to go see Dylan Moran. Her mom bought her an impromptu Dyson vacuum cleaner, but that’s not really a Christmas present.

I got a Damascus nakiri knife, a pair of whetstones, a book on the complete portfolio of Sidney Paget, some money and a framed poster.

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