The labour-day weekend saw us visiting the wonderful city of New York. We got in late on the Friday night after flight delays and missing the ideal train connections, eventually managing to turn up at Sharky and Val's abode at around 1am. The weekend was jam-packed with an excellent ratio of local activities to touristy activities! Saturday We started the day with an amazing flat white from Rex's coffee shop on 10th ave and a walk to Central park at Columbus C...

The last few weeks have raced by and it's hard to keep track of what we have been up to! Marathon training has been a mainstay with only 6 weeks to go until the big race and the half marathon training run in less than a fortnight. Matts training hasn't gone well so he isn't optimistic about keep up with Van, but Van is on track with her Boston marathon qualifying time. The AFL season has come to an end for Matt, but the girl's team has progressed to the second st...

This weekend we went on an Algonquin Adventure! We hired a rental car and drove up to Algonquin Provincial Park on Friday morning before getting our canoes and making our way to our campsite on Burnt Island Lake. It turned our that it was about 5 hours of canoeing for us and 4 portages so what was meant to be a relaxing afternoon turned out to be a bit of exercise. It was awesome tho! So remote and tranquil. After some initial steering issues we made it to our ca...

The last three weeks has raced by which is surprising seeing as we're both still in between jobs. The first week back was Canada Day and we went to the Blue Jays and Red Sox baseball match followed by fireworks at Woodbine Beach. Really cool day with a huge flag nearly covering the baseball field and the Jays scoring a lot of runs. Unfortunately we underestimated how hard it would be to get back from the beach and what would normally take 30 minutes ended up taki...

As the wait for the work permits to be processed drew out to over three weeks longer than we had expected, we decided to skip town on a last-minute-deal holiday to Cuba - a country high up on our 'to visit' list. Flights and accommodation were booked on Thursday and we flew out Sunday (after averting a minor crisis when we realised we had forgot to check visa requirements before booking the holiday - fortunately this was not an issue!). Most of the time on holida...