Seven Years

Hedgehog Guy and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary on Monday. Hedgehog Guy mentioned that he feels that our time in our apartment in Maryland was a "long time ago", and then he realizes we were already married then! We had a nice dinner at a Greek restaurant on Main St. called "The Main". No live music on Mondays, but it was relaxing. We then retired to the house for some internet video and TV show watching. This is an old picture from our last Thanksgiving in the house in Delaware, but you get the idea.


It has been super hot here the last week (above 90oF, 30-35oC), and we don't have air conditioning! Another great thing about Vancouver?

Strait of Georgia, BC

At the end of June my lab group spent a week on the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel the Vector sailing up the west coast of Canada in the Strait of Georgia. I worked really, really hard - something like four 18 hour days in a row interspersed with heavy lifting and rain showers. But the scenery was fabulous. Nothing like the East Coast where I am used to cruisin'. I have a ton of video to grab snapshots from, but thought I would share these photos from my boss's Facebook page first.

Me working on the flow cytometer and then the lab group in front of a waterfall in one of the fjords.

Happy Birthday!

Hedgehog Guy is 29 today! We'll be enjoying a steak dinner at home to celebrate. I'll try to put up a picture of his cake this evening - if the cake is as good as the batter was last night, we are going to die.

Tomorrow I leave for a 4 day sampling trip to Pavilion Lake, British Columbia. A day of driving on each end of 2 days of field work with my lab manager and her son. I really hope it is lots of fun. Two astronauts should be there at the same time to practice flying the ROV submersibles!