Scotia Half Marathon fund raising for fragile-x

Team Fragile X has reached $75,00. We now need a final push to the finish on Sunday if we want to win the $5000 Scotiabank prize.

Please go through your contact lists, social networks and anyone else you think can help.

Sunday, June 27th is OUR day! The people of British Columbia will hear our voice and understand Fragile X needs their attention.

Please forward this Team Fragile X link. Pick a runner. Sponsor. It's super easy and every little bit helps.

http://my.e2rm.com/TeamPage.aspx?EventID=42444&LangPref=en-CA&TeamID=144884

2010 Himalaya Festival

 

The Himalaya Festival was a great success. So many people turned up for the meal that we ran out of food. It was all Nepalese and was put together under the supervision of two Nepali women from Nanaimo. There must have been 20 volunteers and probably we had  200 people eating in the community hall. We saw two movies on the  Citta Hospital in Simikot, that is supported by funds from Gabriola.The festival was organized by Nick and Val - lower picture. Allison was one of the volunteers - that's our big soup pot.

Garlic Snape season again

Garlic snape is really garlic tasting and smelling. They are the flowering head of a garlic plant and we have about 40 really strongly growing garlic, so lots of snape. Garlic wont be harvested for at least a few months.

Happy Father's Day

Micheal's Father's Day card. Note the beard and the four eyes. We went to Robert's (the new restaurant owner) for dinner - it was very good. Most of the day spent building the chickens new summer home.

Michael's First Place Ribbon

Michael says he had a great time and was proud to win a ribbon. He also wants people to know that the lights on the boat did flash before it went in the water.

Michael's boat, the Millenium Falcon won the most creative boat at the Milk Carton Boat Race.

He only found out today because he didn't want to stay to the end of the race for the award ceremony. I will update blog when I know what he won and how he feels about it.

More pictures from the Race

Everyone enjoyed the race, even the two people in the very cold water of the Nanaimo River. The boats showed a wonderful diversity of imagination and ideas - eg the Tim Hortons Boat. This is the third year Michael has raced and the third year it has rained on race day. Nobody noticed. As always we went to lunch after and then did a whole bunch of shopping. Nothing is left on our "Nanaimo List" for now.

Michael at the 2010 Milk Carton Race in Nanaimo

Michael had a blast. He was very proud of his millennium falcon boat and showed it to everyone who pointed a camera at it. He mingled with the crowd (well sort of) and enjoyed the race. He lost his heat but was very pleased with the whole experience especially as this year his boat didn't sink and he could take it home.

Tessa's New York

Tessa really enjoyed the Garment District, Grand Central Station, Central Park and our hotel room (perhaps not the air conditioner noise - it was in the 90's with 90% humidity all week).

Michael's Highlights of the New York Visit

Michael enjoyed the Rockefeller Centre, Toys R Us, FAO Schwartz, M&M world, Hershey's, Mary Poppins and of course the food.

More food in New York !!!!!!

We ate breakfast at Hot & Crusty and lunch at the Rockefeller Center. This was the all you can eat tour.

Ben's Deli New York.

With Mathew, Gwen and Olivia eating again!

The Cousins after Evan's Bar Mitzvah part II

We all had a great time at the BarMitzvah and then retired to the Marriott and talked a blue streak. Looked at old pictures of the family and even after all that food went off to get Pizza for supper!

The Cousins after Evan's Bar Mitzvah