My (Affordable) Dream Vacation

I've got just about a week off from work at the end of August and I've been thinking about what I would like to do. Originally, I was going to do a road trip to Ottawa to visit my friends down there.

Now I'm thinking of spending the week at the cottage (with my cats), doing as little as possible.

I figure I bring some tv-on-dvd, my playstation and games, knitting, and lots of books, and I'll be as happy as ... well, a stressed-out-librarian-on-a-well-deserved-vacation :)

Ah, relaxation... sounds like a dream :)

Ski weekend :)

I had a great time last weekend with Heather, Mike, Em, and Ian at the cottage (even though we didn't have heat for most of it and it was *cold*)

Pictures will come when I find my camera under the piles and piles of piles I have all over my apartment.

In knitting news, I only have to do thumbs for my gauntlets, and I started knitting my so-called scarf in wonderful yarn that reminds me of veggies for some reason. Again, I'll post pictures when my camera resurfaces.

Thanks for a great weekend, guys!

Rest of the Long Weekend Pictures

Okay, here are the rest of the pictures

Pete, trying out the kayak:

Dee, Pete, and little Hamlet:

Hamlet has this funny habit of burrowing through my hair. Dee took pictures of it, so I could see what's going on (why do I always pick the weird cats?)

Look! Hermes and Hamlet are playing! (I don't think Hermes realized Hamlet was there until Hamlet fell off the chair and landed on his head. That was pretty funny!)

Okay, one more post of non-long weekend pictures and I'm done. Promise.

EDIT: The pictures are working now. Enjoy!

Very Photo Heavy Post!

I just downloaded all my pictures from my camera to my computer, so I thought I'd share. I'm also playing with Picassa, so if this post looks weird, that's why. Okay, onto the photos! I believe they're mostly of the long weekend at my parents' cottage:

Hamlet, in his new collar and leash, exploring the great outdoors for the first time

My sister showed me how to do some neat tricks with my camera, so we played around a bit with them. For example, I can set the camera to only pick up a specific colour, in this case, blue:

Then I tried it again (without my sister's help) to only pick up red. It didn't work so well. Later, she told me I can adjust the sensitivity, but that wasn't in time for this picture of Dee and Pete (who were holding something red. The rest of the picture was supposed to be black and white)

Dee and Pete decided they wanted to try kayaking. This is an awesome picture of Dee, with the ski hill in the background:

... okay, I know I selected more photos in Picassa, but only these ones showed up... hang on, I'll try this again.