Ligeia and Mindy just spent a week in Belize, Central America. For those who don’t know where that is (we had to look on the map, too!), you can click here. We stayed in a small village called Hopkins, where the majority of its population (total = 1000) are of the Garifuna culture. In the […]

Ligeia’s parents flew up to celebrate her graduation. The visit began with a picnic at Willow Pond in the Botanical Gardens, right where Mindy and Ligeia got married.During our picnic, we saw lots of Canadian geese and many goslings:The second day of their trip, was Ligeia’s convocation. Please see previous post for details.While going to […]

Yesterday was an extremely special day for us with Ligeia receiving her diploma at convocation. Her studies took about two years of very hard work, and it’s extremely nice to have everything completed! Ligeia waving right after she was called up on stage to be “admitted to the degree of Master of Education”. Here is […]

Mindy started off at third base, then quickly moved to pitching.And of course, she did a great job.Then she switched roles and became an umpire.Time to get serious:And left feeling satisfied about her performance.Until next Sunday… Ligeia and Mindy :):)

Here’s Mindy standing in front of our new home:The inside is really nice too, with high ceilings, just like we wanted:And it gives us a nice view of the city.Some kind of creature bit Ligeia in the garden though. We’ll have to do something about that before we receive guests.The lifestyle change has unfortunately gone […]

We spent much of our time watching for butterflies, birds and other animals. We watched this gorgeous blue jay fly from tree to tree……and this lovely butterfly fly from flower to flower:We also saw a beaver but couldn’t get any good pictures of it. We had never seen a beaver on land before and were […]

Mindy, Ligeia and Riley went to the stadium last night for a baseball game. It started out in the Jays’ favor, going up 2-1 early in the game. Fred Lewis on 2nd… …and later scoring on a single. It didn’t take long, however, for the Jays to self-destruct. With 2 outs in the inning and […]

Mindy signed up for an ice-hockey tournament with her Moss Park team in Niagara Falls. Friday night they played their first game and won 4-1. Mindy got one of those goals.Saturday, they played To Killa Rose and lost 4-0. The other team were overall better players and it was clear had been playing together for […]

On Friday, May 14th, Mindy and Ligeia drove to Niagara Falls and spent some time at the Butterfly Conservatory in the Botanical Gardens. We enjoyed watching all the butterflies and got some great pictures:After enjoying the butterflies, we went back to Willow Pond where we got married and had a nice picnic. Here’s Mindy showing […]

Mindy and Ligeia decided because it was so sunny today that they would go to check out the Scarborough Bluffs. And they did not disappoint. It was beautiful there, especially the water.We saw so many birds on the lake today, including some loons.Mindy couldn’t help herself. There were perfect skipping stones on the beach.We watched […]

Wow, I’ve waited several summers to see lightning hit the CN Tower and tonight I finally did. It was amazing!!! And so beautiful.And like the saying goes, when it rains, it pours, it kept doing it over and over. I must have seen it 10 times. So I decided to go and get the tripod […]

This evening we celebrated Cinco de Mayo with wonderful Mexican music……a variety of salsas and wonderful company. Below is Dawson, Jenny, Mindy, Heart and Riley.We played Mexican Jeopardy and Heart was the winner by a landslide!And to our surprise, a bandito showed up and stole all the margarita mix.We had a great time and hopefully […]

Mindy and Ligeia decided to spend a little time looking at the cherry blossoms.But we had a difficult time locating them. We searched high and low…We even looked in unexpected places…We were fooled once by some very bright colors…Then we started to get annoyed……and the stress was making us lose our hair……but we finally found […]

This weekend Mindy and her ice-hockey team played in a tournament and many people came out to see her play. Friday night her Dad and Trixie were there to cheer her on. And Saturday, Mindy’s mother and Ligeia went to her first game.Here are some pictures to document the event:Here she is all ready to […]

Hello everyone, Mindy and Ligeia went to watch the sunset last night at Leslie Street Spit. It was a nice short hike in and the same out, with lots of birds and bicycles along the way.We saw a swan, several ducks and several Canadian geese, as well as a loon and many smaller birds. The […]

Ligeia finished her last class ever at OISE/U of T this evening. She turned in her final paper and feels really good about it. Her friends came out to celebrate with her. Above is Vijay, Winnie, Lauren, Man, June, Thomas and his fiance Amity, and Anne Katherine.Plus after hearing Ligeia talk endlessly about Mindy they […]