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Hot hot hot…

The weather has been way too warm the last couple of days. It's currently midnight and it still is 25C outside. When we arrived home at 6:30, the temperature was still 36C. I do enjoy warm weather, but I didn't sign up for Vegas temperatures when I moved to Vancouver. The dog is panting so much I had to get a wet towel to cover him up, now he won't go anywhere without his wet towel... This weekend was really cool (but warm...), we got some new visitors over, so we got back to doing touristy things. On Saturday we did the mandatory Whistler trip which was nice, but no bears and the biathlon shooting...

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Chaotic update

I haven't gotten around updating the blog lately due to some very busy weeks and the launch of new versions and remakes of some of my all time favorite games: Monkey Island and Battlefield :) Tonight, I forced myself not to play and to upload some pictures to the blog. It's a bit of a chaotic post of unrelated events, but well.. Thursday after work we met up with a friend of ours in downtown Vancouver, had a lovely walk on the seawall, ate some great takeaway Shawarma (it took me some time to actually figure out that it was Shoarma...) on the beach and finished it all of with a Marble Slab ice cream...

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Some more pictures

Sorry for the recent lack of updates but we had some busy weeks and more coming up. My parents came over to visit us for 3 weeks (too short) and we had a great time wine tasting, doing hikes, ... Here is a picture of my lovely mother in Vancouver: My mother in Vancouver We also did a short day trip to Whistler where we visited the Olympic skijump and biathlon area. At the Biathlon shooting range you could try out a biathlon rifle and shoot at the targets. Ine beat me with a perfect 5/5 score against my less perfect 4/5. I had a bad bullet... On our way we saw 2 bears (see previous post for picture)....

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