The First Family Visit......

Hello folks!!

Another update from Brian & Elaine is here!


Well, here we are sitting in a hotel room, one block away from Niagara Falls with......Elaine's brother Clive and his daughter, Katherine!


They have traveled from England to visit us for two weeks, and they are nearly through their first week with us. Clive and Katherine have been skiing at Chicopee (a ski resort around the corner from where we live...), met a lot of our friends, including Bob and Lorie and several others, and now we have taken a long weekend to spend with our visitors to visit Niagara in the winter.


Of course, our blog updates would not be complete without pictures, so here are some more for your viewing pleasure:


A shot of the Niagara (or Horseshoe) Falls:






Elaine, Katherine and Clive with the American side of the falls in the distance....

Katherine has requested her picture below to be shown for all the world to see with Barnaby Bear at the Falls as well, so here goes.....

We just had to take this picture of a....well....see for yourself....

As you can see in the pictures above, the Canadian side of the falls is far superior to the Amercian side (we are just biased!!)

Until the next update, the Emerys are signing off......

A Special Message From Brian & Elaine...1 Year On.

Blog Readers,

Please view below a video message from the Emerys:

We have been here in Canada one year today, Sunday 11th January!

Thank you all and take care.

What Canadians Do In The Winter...

Well, well, well.....

We are certainly getting used to the cold weather here....just look at this picture below taken from the back of our house....









People using snowmobiles at the back of the house....CRAZY!! This would not happen back in England!! (HAHAHA!!!)

Another thing....SNOW BLOWERS!! Yep, this is a device used to move snow without you having to dig up using a shovel.....check out Brian below in the court we live in now using a neighbours snow blower....





BRRRR!!!!

Some I...Deer.....No I....Deer....

Picture the scene....Elaine & I are snoring on Sunday morning, and the phone rings at 08:25am (we can hear you say lazy people!!)


It was Jen and Jeff, our next door neighbours telling us that there are deer grazing in the back yards of our houses.....RIGHT NOW!!!!


Elaine & I were running around the back of the house, upstairs and downstairs trying to see the deer, but no luck.


Jen then tells us to come over to their house, which we graciously accepted to take pictures from their place......


So below are some pictures that were taken about....1/2 hour before the blog entry was posted....see for yourself...





Ahhhh!!!

See you all soon

Shooting Hoops.....

Hello folks!

On Friday (10th January 2009), the Emerys visited the home of the local NBA team, the Toronto Raptors. The tickets were given to us as a Christmas present from Jeff, the son of our good friends, Bob and Lorie. This was a truly special gift given to us by a truly special person. Thank you sooooooooo much Jeff!!! Love ya bro!!!

Anyway, the Toronto Raptors were playing the Memphis Grizzlies from down south (the U.S of A.)


Toronto Raptors or the Raps for short are an OK team....for those back in the UK, think of a football (OK then...SOCCER!!) team that is always mid table in the league...not good enough to win anything, but not bad enough that they finish last....does that make sense???


This was our second game, as we have been here before, so the photos below are from that game (forgot our camera for this one!!) so everyone gets an idea of the stadium...called the ACC (Air Canada Centre)

Of course, the court with the Raps logo on it:

Come on Raps!!!!:







During the game last night, during the intermissions / timeouts, everyone in attendance had a chance to win 'The Best Seats In The House' competition. Basically, a section of the arena is picked, and then a person within that section wins a prize.


Guess who's section they pick....well....ours of course!!! Guess who they pick to win a prize....THE GUY NEXT TO BRIAN!!! They also place cameras on the area and person they pick, and Brian was on Raptors TV for about 15-20 seconds. What was it that the famous artist Andy Warhol said...'Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes....'. Well, Brian has his famous moment for 15 seconds!


The person next to Brian won 4 tickets to see the Raps play their next home game against the Boston Celtics, the current NBA champions! Also with this prize, you and your three friends will be placed in a suite / executive box at the game, with waiters and waitresses to serve your every need!
Last but not least, he won $150 spending money as well!!! Lucky, lucky, lucky!


Well, to finish off the Raps won 103 to 82, so it was a very good game!


Bye for now

Happy New Year For 2009!!!

All,

Thanks for taking the time for reading this blog over the last year. This is just a quick message to wish you all a happy and safe new year wherever you are in the world.

Stay safe and be good to each other in 2009.

Best Wishes

Brian & Elaine

PS - Stay tuned for more updates for the new year ahead.

'Tis Done!!!!! The House Update Of All House Updates!!!

Everyone,

We have finally moved into our new home!!! YAY!!!! Busy with unpacking boxes and stuff. ALL of our furniture was moved yesterday (18th Dec) by friends. A friends of ours turned up un-announced with a trailer for our furniture, a BBIIGG suprise for us, so we were planning on moving over everything over the weekend, so taking about 3 days....did everything in ONE NIGHT!!!

The kindness of the people that helped us yesterday know no bounds...Bob, our great friend had been working since 2am that morning, finished work, and came over to help us with the move, and did not leave until 11pm last night!!!

No photos yet (thank goodness!) but we will get around to it. Elaine & I have our vacation now until the first week in Jan '09, so we have been looking forward to the break.....

Until the next one, happy holidays to all and have a merry Christmas.

Love
Brian & Elaine