Time to buy skis
It's official. Naomi's exchange to Australia ha been canceled. The visa issue holding up her Australian counterpart was apparently too much to overcome and she had to pull out. There is a 1 in a million chance of a teacher in Australia requesting a last minute exchange. Honestly, I'm not sure why any Australian would want to live in sub-arctic Edmonton.So.... Naomi went out and bought some nice cross country skate skis! I'll probably pick up a ski package in the next couple of weeks as well. If you believe the Farmers almanac, we're going to get a long snowy winter. I'm now hoping for plenty of snow and mild temperatures.
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For almost the last two weeks I have been fighting a nasty virus/cold. A lot of people in Edmonton have caught it... so it's probably spread to wherever you are reading this. I finally felt good enough to attempt a swim on Thursday and a run on Friday... I felt like crap.. but at least I'm moving again. I'm hoping it clears soon, as Naomi and I are flying to Phoenix next weekend to compete in a triathlon.
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A couple weeks ago, I scored some free tickets for the Cheryl Crow show at Rexall Place. I'm not a huge Cheryl Crow fan, but free tickets.... why not? So, Naomi and got our errands done that night, skipping the opening act, and caught almost 2 hours of a really good show. Simple stage setup, but great sound, and entertaining.
Cheryl Crow likes to talk to the crowd a lot. I read a review of her Toronto show where she ranted about Oil and politics... well.. she had to tone that message down for the partisan Edmonton crowd! Bashing big oil would get you booed off the stage here! She also commented on the Oilers jerseys hung in the rafters, but I'm not sure if she knew that Messier and Gretzky haven't played for Edmonton for... ohh.... 20 years?
posted by Greg Nicholson @ 10/18/2008
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