Sam’s Photo Blog

A couple weeks ago we visited Waterloo. First stop was St.Jacob’s Farmer’s market.

“1 for $3; 2 for $5; 5 for $10″. Simple math tells me we were saving 33.3% but reality was we had to carry 5 loaves for the whole day…

New building going up in Campus. Where did all the green space go?!

The new E5 building. We tried to find a way to get inside but with no luck.

After discovering our print accounts are still active and have some money left over we logged-on to Nexus.

Best use of an afternoon. Reading old lab reports and printing black pages.

We wandered around the Engineering buildings.

And pinned up posters on bulletin boards and slid them into glass displace shelves.

Slowly we made our way to the Clock Tower stage in downtown Kitchener.

Performance by Dr. John & The Lower 911.

The lead singer had a lot of character and great stage presence!

Bass guitar solo.

The crowd cheering during the final act.

Flying is highly dependent on personal preferences, each person have adopted to a certain set of guidelines and tries to stick to it. Some prefer the isle seats to easily move around, some prefer the center for least turbulence, while some prefer the window seats for the view and a place to lean.
I personally go by window seats; music with earbuds; and no food.

The commotions and rumbling metropolitan engulfed by nimbus clouds.

It is a matter of luck which side gets the view of the city and interesting cloud formations.


Cruising at 33,000ft.


Toronto from above, with the flat and grid-like layout. Quite a contrast against the Hong Kong skyline surrounding the shoreline.

Staring down Yonge Street. Almost home.

We arrived at the venue a little early so we watched the last tail end of the game between Victor Hanescu and Novak Djokovic.

This was my first experience watching tennis live. I was amazed at the speed of the ball and the players’ ability to react.

Novak Djokovic won the game 6-3, 6-4.

The main court held the match between Rafael Nadal and Kevin Anderson.

Kevin is over 2m tall and served consistently over 200km/hr! Nadal was able to return the serves effortlessly.

The crowd cheering for the players. It was nice that the audience would quiet down and show respect during the rallies.

Nadal serving in the final set.

The final result was 6-2, 7-6(6). Good game!

Jenn was very kind to invite us high school friends to her cottage over the long weekend!

View from the living room.

Breakfasts consist of french toast, scrambled eggs, hash brown, bacon, and fried bananas!

The entire group crammed onto the row boat for the group photo. :)


Walking over to a nearby resort for some Frisbee and ice cream.

Project of the week: BBQ Turtle. The girls have never seen the boys so focused before.

Jerry showing off his skillful weaving of bacon shell.

We dropped them off at the grill. With 17 layers of meat we had to turn down the fire….

However, the bacon lit all the coals on fire and the neighbors came knocking telling us the grill was on fire! FAIL.

Early celebration for Andrea’s birthday, this time with a control burn.

In the afternoon we took the boats out to the lake.

Jenn was cruising around in her surfboard.

Scarlette was the expert at catching sun fish.

Amazing! Andrea scored this giant bass, it was pretty intense reeling it in. We released it afterward.

Pot Roast and vegetables….yup more food.

Camp fire and s’morse. Yum!