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.

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!

Beautiful city by the lake.

Mike & Tara’s Wedding.

Congratulations!

The next day, I took the opportunity to wander around the city.

Continuing from Part I of our hiking trip in the Adirondacks Park.

In the 4 days we experienced all sorts of weather conditions. On the 3rd day we woke up with 2 inches of fresh snow on the ground, here is Ludwik defrosting his boots. I dreaded putting on my frozen boots, as my toes would be freezing for the next couple of hours.

Unsure of the weather forecast we packed everything and returned to the visitor center for some updates.

In the snow covered forest, it was so quiet.

Taking a break to enjoy the scenery.

With a promising forecast for Monday we decided to stay in the park. In the afternoon, we decided to challenge Cascade Mountain.

However, we had driven too far and spent 45minutes climbing up a waterfall and wondered why it was so difficult….

As we neared the peak. It was snowing hard with strong winds.

Last push to the peak in the deep snow.

White-out at the top of Cascade Mountain - 4098 ft (1249 m). It was an amazing experience even with the snow blowing sideways and very low visibiity.


That night we had a nice campfire and had a huge success making popcorn (usually it ends up being a giant fireball…).

Brian reviewing some of the footage from the peak.

Our last day at the park brought fair weather, we were very excited.

We packed everything into our rental Ford Flex. It was a tank.

Ludwik leading the way looking for trail makers in the snow covered paths.

It was quite slippery with snow and ice covering the rocks. But going up was easier than going down.

Taking in the panoramic view at 3352 ft (1022 m).

The brothers being silly.

The lookout to the other mountains in the region.

Kenny living on the edge.

Brian and his best friend. I still don’t know how he felt safe letting go of the tripod.

Chief Hojo.

Back to the ground level and start on the journey home.