Going East

Bow left early in the morning to head back east to visit family then on to school. Here is a picture she took of the sunrise from the plane. How come my pictures through a plane window never look like that!?

 

Santa was good to Anne-Marie

On our trip around the world we saw stand-up paddle boards for the first time in Vietnam.  Tourists were out on the South China Sea paddling along in water the temperature of a warm bath.   This Christmas Santa brought Anne-Marie her very own stand-up paddle board.  Here are a few snaps of her out on the Straight of Georgia (temperature approximately 0 degrees) on boxing day.   You can see the Oak Bay Marina and the Olympic Mountains in the background of some of the pictures.

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Christmas at the DTs

Merry Christmas everyone. 

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Bow is home for Christmas and we had friends and family over for breakfast.  I’ve attached a short slide show of Bow, Hesquiat, Anne-Marie, Fran and her boyfriend Eric and our friends Chantal and Christine.  We had the usual eggs florentine, freshly squeezed orange juice  and Christmas cookies for breakfast.  We’re working on the tofu turkey now.   Hesquiat tortured us by making us watch his new Transformers 3 movie.  Ouchy.  My turn next (Christmas Vacation – Chevy Chase).   We’re so happy to be together for Christmas – maybe snow next year?  Hope you all had a great day.

 

Pause for a visit to Ottawa :) by BDADT

Heading back to my home in Sherbrooke again, after passing a wonderful, relaxing, regeneration of energy, fun time in Ottawa with my relatives. Now that I live so much closer than Victoria (4610km) to Ottawa, I can travel very often to visit family. Although it still is a 5 hour trip from on place to the next, including the horrible 1 hour layover in Montreal bus depot. I personally think it’s horrible, maybe it’s just my bad experiences with the homeless that love to approach me as I’m waiting.

Although, for a first I think I slept almost all five-hour bus ride. Yes it’s an hour more this time, because with my lovely planning skills. I managed to get the milk run bus route. Otherwise known as the semi-express. Funny, yet not because they stop at almost every little towns gas station.

Over the past few times I have enjoyed all the different weather changes. My favourite, and first time experience this fall; was the changing of the leaves of all of the trees. I found it completely amazing, looks like a quilt, patched, striped, scratched with yellows, oranges, reds,greens, browns. Yet the question is in which was do the leaves change? From green to yellow, orange, red, then to brown? Or is the order different? Maybe I will find out over time. You have obviously seen the snow photos of that new season.

Well here are some trip to Ottawa photos.

This one is kinda a fun. A guy kite surfing in the parking lot on my way to Montreal.

cool eh?

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More snow!!!- BDADT

Well, it is snowing again! Yay! Cept it’s dark so to late to go and play. Here are the rest of the snow fun photos after the first “real winter” snow

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p.s. a typical Tully to write in the snow Did a heart with a snow angel and the word “neige”(snow in french)

Ohh right I guess everyone might need to practice their french a little bit as I speak it 100% here. As soon as I leave my room it french everything. Challenging but wonderful at the very same time. It’s like I’m in a different country sometimes, yet I am always home in Canada.

 

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BDADT Back in dah HOUSE!! To get this party started :)

That’s right, you’re going to be receiving some blog posts, by BDADT. (Sounds cool eh? Sorta like a rapper artist name.) Here are some upcoming adventures that ehm ehm might be posted:

• Once a week, a FOOD blog. How I am working out cooking in residences, trying out recipes and family favorites. Feel free to make requests for recipes.
• Once a week (til I run out), of Recap adventures, “Bow as Newbie University Student”
• Once a week  of simple adventures titled “Sherbrooke adventures, this will include, bike rides, runs, snow anything that doesn’t fall in the category of university and food.

Now the main question is why? Well I as a student cannot take the time to write each and every one of you a letter in snail mail.Considering that I spend a lot of time studying on the computer I thought this might be a wonderful solution. Lately I have been posting my photos on my Facebook page, but nobody there appreciates them as much as my fellow blog stalker friends. And the best reason of them all would be because I LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL! And need to KEEP CONNECTION.

So let’s go back to the fun blog part I most recently,yesterday spent my day playing in this wonderful thing called SNOW!!! That’s right Bow’s first “real winter” is coming. Some of you are probably thinking uuh oohh, “How is she going to survive?”. My answer is somehow and better than my lovely friends from Congo, Togo, Morocco, Kenya, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Mexico, Ghana,Algeria because they are not accustom to cold at all. But I at least have some experiences from last trip in Montreal (When I dropped my gloves in a puddle in a snowstorm and got frostbite…:( )

So here are some photos of the first Sherbrooke adventure.

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Signing out BDADT <3

 

“Oh, My Gravy! Things Yall Should Know.” -BDT

This was created may long weekend 2011, so I thought I’d post it for amusement and catch up of the Tully Wedding

How yall doing? Gotta any clue where we went most recently for the May long weekend? Guess we can never stop blogging to yall, bout our travels. We went to Texas Houston, yes the very place where one says “Houston we got a problem”. Unfortunately I have already run out of Houston Texas Vocabulary, I should have learned some more. So yall are very lucky.

Lets see its, starts off going through the customs in Seattle, and the guy asked us why were we going to Texas Houston and we replied a wedding. He then says that probably the only reason to go to Texas Houston and we laugh. At least we knew that the Tully’s were all going to be there and that means a lot of laughs, smiles, pranks,  BAD (really bad) jokes, basically a very good time. Some plans of shopping, swimming, partying, celebrating and exploring and a ton of driving.

I was a little too tired to take some photos, on our travels there but here were some of the things I noticed on our two-hour drive. To start off, if any roads had to cross each other, a minimum of 6 or 10 (who knows), needed to cross at the very same point. In the car it felt like you were driving through a maze, with roads above you and beside you and underneath. It was amazing, and pretty cool, my brother and I thought at one of those spots Transformers might have been filmed. The next item that was noticed, was that if there was a field of cows, there was a field of birds too. Well, they were in the same field and each cow had a little white bird with tall legs that followed it around. Or maybe it was the cows that followed the birds?? And finally as we drove the neighbourhoods they went through sections of shacks with broken windows and pulled off boards, to really big lots brick fenced/walled in. There was rarely an “in between”. There were also a great amount of huge, tall signs along the highways, and some were very interesting.

Have you ever seen those cartoons, where people just sit in their cars, and people come out and bring their food to them??  Well those restaurants really exist. It’s like a parking lot, each spot has a drive-thru kinda microphone, where you order the food. Now, their advertisement sign, shows a girl on rollerskates with the food on a try. I wonder if that truly happens.

More Updates later from the Dts

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Up the Ottawa Valley

DT's on Lynda and Jen's farm

We’ve arrived in Ottawa and have been enjoying the cold and snow.  Today we went up the Ottawa Valley to visit friends in Renfrew and Horton Township.   First we stopped by for a visit with Emily, Barry and their kids.  Emily is an old co-worker of Cate’s from the Renfrew County Legal Clinic.  Not only did Emily bake cookies, she got out of her pj’s early just  for us. 

Then we headed into Horton Township for a visit with Lynda and Jen.  The kids tried out snow shoes for the first time.  Bow would likely have had more success if Hesquiat had stopped pushing her over, stepping on the tails and poking his ski poles through the webbing.  Bow got the last word in with a sneak snow ball attack with the help of her mother.  Very satisfying.  Here are a few snaps of our day up the valley with friends Lynda, Jen, Lyse and Debbie.

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The DTs Hike Around Montreal

Baby it’s cold outside!  I think we’ve been living on the west coast way too long because although it was only   -11 with a bit of a wind chill, we all had to bundle up in our long underwear to stay warm today.  Here we are at the end of our 7 hour hike around downtown Montreal today.

The DTs in Montreal

We started with a trip to the Universite de Montreal where Bow collected information about tuition, bursaries, residence and more  importantly, the gym and pool facilities.   After U of M we headed over to dad’s alma mater, McGill.   Hesquiat has some interest in attending McGill so we checked out the engineering department.  Unfortunately the mechanical engineering department just moved and so they did not have photos of graduating classes up on the wall – we were hoping to find a photo of grandpa.   Hesquiat was particularly impressed with the residence we toured because it was an old, and fairly fancy hotel.  He discovered a taste for luxury while touring around the world.  He’s promised his mothers a first class trip to Australia – no expenses spared.  We’re looking forward to that!

Bow took a bunch of snaps around McGill University and downtown Montreal.  I also took a few pictures at the U of M.   We all loved the city and I loved the crunch of the snow under my boots.  Last night we had dinner at Patati Patata.  I had a tofu burger for $1.75, the kids checked out the poutine and Anne Marie had French onion soup.  All delicious for just $31.  Almost as cheap as India!  Today we found the second best pizza restaurant in the world call Il Focolaio near Phillips Square (the best pizza restaurant in the world is Il Posto on Douglas St. in Victoria – honest).

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We’re on the Road Again!

We were up at 3:30 a.m. this morning to catch our 5:30 a.m. flight to Vancouver and then on to Montreal.  We’re off to look at universities for Bow and Hesquiat – I know, time flies!  Here’s a snap of Anne Marie and Bow looking pretty sleepy here in the Vancouver airport.  We’ll probably have a few snaps of snowy Montreal in the next couple of days. Perhaps it’s time for another Bow slide show.