Emigration and massage

We went to Canada for the weekend, and were thrilled to get the work permit squared away. Once we were at the hotel, we pulled out our passports to look at the new paperwork...and discovered that I was transformed to K Schnitt. Just when you thought the original name wasn't the world's greatest last name...well.

The Schnlloyds spent the weekend looking for apartments. We found a fantastic one - beautiful hardwood floors, crown molding, huge, and in a fantastic neighborhood. There was no yard, which was a bummer, but the place was so great we were going to take it any way. The owner lived upstairs with his wife and four sons, and suggested that we come back at night to check out the neighborhood and make sure we like it. We came in the back door, so we had trouble immediately locating it that night. Weirder still - there was a massage parlor on the block. This isn't as weird as it sounds - they (and related enterprises) are scattered all over perfectly nice neighborhoods throughout Montreal. Anyway. We counted backwards from the door we came in...and realized that this was the apartment:

You can check the place out at abaca.ca ....but I really don't suggest it.

New Fence

K and I tore down the old fence (which was falling down) ....

... worked in the hot sun

to build a new fence.

Little Bit worked very hard as well.

Pittsburh House

My brother, Scott, and I spent a week finsihing up projects on the Pittsburgh house.

We finished the Kitchen.

Remodeled the bathroom.

Removed the shingle wall and painted one of the bedrooms.

And completed several other projects. Scott is a machine!

Maho at Carnegie Hall

In April, we went to New York City with Scott and Bill to see our friend Maho play at Carnegie Hall. Maho rocks!

Light Saber cool, Montreal, and on-time arrival

ON-TIME ARRIVAL

Over the past few weeks we've had many notable events. The most shocking comes first, so I don't want to keep you waiting: We came somewhere on time. More shocking? We met an always-ontime-ex-military personage for dinner...and we beat him there! Yes, of course we are aided in this venture by our stellar and consistent reputation for late arrival...but I don't think we can downplay this one. Then today - I did it again. Totally on time for lunch. Shocking, but true.

MONTREAL

We visited Montreal for the weekend and provide some pictoral highlights here - I feel they summarize our adventures quite well.

The weather was great!

We visited some lovely cafes and patisseries...

And visited the Olympic City

Light Saber Cool

New toy for work. To quote a co-worker: "It's light saber cool."

(those are my hands)