tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35152012007-08-08T23:33:31.775+02:00Stacynoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515201.post-1123931647949940602005-08-13T13:05:00.000+02:002005-08-13T13:14:07.953+02:00

I've finally gotten around to posting our Rome & Prague pictures from the trips we took last month. Go check them out. We are off to see the fireworks for the end of Fete Du Geneve tonite. It is supposed to be quite the show, we'll see. I've seen some great fireworks exhibitions so it will have to be pretty impressive to compete.

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Betsy and I just got back from Orange Cinema's Movie by the Lake. Every summer the local mobile company Orange setups a temporary theatre by the Lake. Every night they show a different movie with 1 or 2 a week being in English. The setting is great overlooking the lake and city. Last night we went to see Hotel Rwanda which is the story of a hotel manager in Kigali, Rwanda who managed to save/

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Betsy & I just got back from a wonderful weekend in Prague in the Czech Republic. I can honestly say that Prague is one of my favorite cities in the world that I have visited and Betsy feels the same way. Taxis are notorious rip-offs in Prague so we figured it was easier to arrange a car through the hotel for the short 20 minute drive to downtown Prague. Our hotel (Hotel KK Central) was

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I like lists, especially "Best of" or "Top.." lists. Spin magazine recently did the Top 100 albums of the past 20 years. Now this is a totally subjective thing and being Spin magazine and wanting to appear cool they have a lot of music on there that in my opinion is overrated or just plain not very good. I tried to find a copy of the magazine but couldn't find it anywhere here in Switzerland or

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Yesterday we went white water rafting in the River Dranse just over the border in France. A group from work specifically from Betsy's project had organized the event and we decided to go. Neither one of us had been before, I had always wanted to do it but never had and Betsy seemed keen though a little more concerned about the whole thing. We ended up having a great time, it was much less

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I've been very neglectful with the blogging recently. I'd like to blame it on it being summer or just being too busy but to be honest it is pure unadulterated laziness. Its not like we haven't been doing lots of things that I could blog about and there are always issues of the day that I could go on for pages about (Karl Rove, Supreme Court, London Terror Attacks, the French). So what have we

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Well this is our first week back at work after two weeks holidays. We had a great trip and got to spend time with my family in Vancouver and Betsy's family in Oak Harbor, WA. We also got ato spend a couple of days in Seattle and spend some time with friends. Betsy's niece was graduating High School so her whole family (almost) made the trek from San Diego up to Oak Harbor. It was nice to be

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We are off to Vancouver tonight for two weeks, splitting our time between Seattle, Oak Harbor, WA and Vancouver. Two weeks just doesn't seem like enough time now that we are actually thinking about how to fill the time. We are both really looking forward to seeing our families and friends, eating burritos, good steak, drinking margaritas, Sunday shopping and a whole host of other activities.

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Summer seems to finally have arrived and just in time for us to go on vacation back to Canada for two weeks. I am playing in a golf tourney in Evian in France (yes, evian like the water) tomorrow. Supposedly its quite a nice course so I am looking forward to it. On Sunday Betsy and I are going to go whack the ball around so she can get some practice in before we play in Vancouver. I also went

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Well I've finally gotten motivated and started adding photos to our website. No fancy templates, just want to get the stuff up there for people to see. So far I've added pics from our trip to Provence last weekend and a ski trip to the French Alps we did in March. Hopefully this weekend I will get our Scotland and Gruyere trip pictures up as well. Go to "Trips from Geneva" on the main page to

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Another long weekend here for something called Whit Monday?? Like a friend said, "who care's what they call it, as long as it's a holiday!" We decided not to go away this weekend since we were just away last weekend and couldn't find cheap flights anywhere. If the weather cooperates we'll probably do some biking and I am planning on golfing on Monday. People always ask what we like/dislike

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Well, we just got back from an excellent weekend in Provence. Provence is about a 4 hour drive away from Geneva in the South of France. It is an area known for wine and food, two things Bets and I are very fond of! We left Wednesday night after work and of course hit traffic and weather the whole way down so our 4 hour trip turned into a 5.5 hour drive. Finally, at 10pm, we pulled into Avignon

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Finally, summer has arrived in Geneva. It seems like we went straight from winter (it snowed two weeks ago) to summer (27 C yesterday). Everyone talks about how lovely spring is in Switzerland but we never saw it, there was no spring this year. Our travel schedule is starting to ramp up now that the nice weather has arrived. Today I am taking the winter tires off the car and putting the

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Well we've only been here for 6 months and have finally gotten around to developing a weblog. C'est la vie as the French say. We just got back from Scotland with our friends the McKinnons' and had a great trip. Steve and I played two rounds at St. Andrews including a round on the famed Old Course. We got a true test of Scottish golf as the weather was about 43F (8 C) with 30+mph winds and heavy

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