Happy New Year 2012!

Favourite Yuletide additions to our household:  "Cookie" (really barks and moves!) and the new doll bed (works well as a mini-bed for a toddler!)...

Feliz Navidad, Apartment-Style!

We'd better rescue those guitars and start strummin'... Prospero Ano!

"GEBUDNIK-IMPERIAL-RUSSIAN-STOUT!"

Such was Steve's dire pronouncement this morning, waking up with a hangover of such proportions that it precluded our planned trip to Whistler, which we've postponed for a few days until he's at least speaking English again! We were at a neighbourhood soiree yesterday and wouldn't you know it, that interesting craft-beer turned out to be a whopping 9% alcohol! The girls and I raided his wallet and ended up going to the mainland to do some Christmas shopping today; and we treated ourselves to a fabulous sushi lunch in Horseshoe Bay while his imperial majesty slept it off. Domo origato, comradski Blotto!

Christmas-Ferry

Every year, the Queen of Capilano dons her gay apparel--and what a stunner is this lovely tree, spicing up my exam-time commute! I have about a hundred exams and term papers standing between myself and my Yuletide break, but that hasn't stopped me from doing our annual cards and letters (I try to limit it to the same number of people who attended our wedding in the eighties, something in the...eighties...but I tend to lose track after the first few eggnogs). I even managed to mail off the parcels back East today--it remains to be seen if I actually get all the addresses right this year. Merry merry!

Light Up the Cove

Aurora really rocked the Cove at the annual celebration of lights!

Photo by our dear friend and talented shutterbug Kristen Jarvis.