We're both in a state of bewilderment at the moment following yesterday's pre-budget announcement that CIDA (the Canadian International Development Agency), which is where Meg works, is being rolled into Foreign Affairs, or more precisely, the newly re-named 'Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development'.  No one is entirely sure just what ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about our experience at Run For Your Lives - Pittsburgh (held in Butler, PA; you can read about it here, or just scroll down a bit more)...well, last Friday we headed south to Meg's parent's place (with a co-worker that I'd convinced to run with us) to get closer to the Run For Your Lives race in Toronto (technically ( Read more... )

Two weeks on the road is a long time...but it was well worth it.  A few days in Kingston visiting my brother, a couple days in Bloomfield (near Sandbanks Provincial Park), three days in Toronto visiting friends and Meg's relatives, four days poking around Niagara Falls being horribly touristy, and then a dash across the border at the Rainbow Bridge ( Read more... )