Move, Formula 1, off with the kid

And once again, there is a slight change of plans. Guess what, we have rented out our apartment. This has happened completely to our surprise. One should notice that we did inform the office of the building that we were willing to sublet the place due to the house, we are moving in, but that it will go that fast, no one has expected. Partly it is my fault I guess. NB! Never clean up your place, buy flowers, make it look very nice and enjoyable and leave for vacations. You see what's happening.
So, we have to be out of our apartment by July 1. Ups, that is the biggest moving day in Quebec. But not to worry.
Thanks to Smith, Randy, Jones, Grout, Stellman and Kvist families we were able: quickly organize and start resending our mail, get to water the flowers (oh my, I hope that will work), get a roof over our heads, get moving suggestions and just not to panic. All in less then 24 hours. Good, now I can relax?! (Rhetoric question)

Formula 1 is coming to town and guess what... we are going this time. Yes, and it is right. And it is right on Mortens birthday. So, that is the way to celebrate him (not that I have already forced him to fly on a float plane as a present anyway). As usual with massive plans exactly on the same weekend (Scavenger hunt, David is off to a birthday party, David has a violin concert), we will be able to spare some time over the weekend and even on Saturday to attend this event. And just being on the street on that particular weekend is something else. Last year, exactly at this time, we were on our reallocation trip and oh boy, it was fun. Ferraries, Porsche, you name it, are all over the streets. The owners are showing off their cars and some of them, look at the car under the tent, go to that extreme is to hire a person to wipe off the rain drops from the car the second it hits it. Fun, right?

And to finish it up we have  a very good news. David is off for a camp for 5 days (somewhere in Ontario region). The guy was so excited that I could barely made his to pack his stuff by himself.(wait, did I misunderstood something, was I suppose to pack his bag?).  But his parents were even more excited. (I don't even remember how it is to have a live with one kid only.) I was mostly looking forward for the parents giving each other "high five" as soon as the bus would leave the school.  Remember, our kids are all 10-11 years old pre-teens, who know the world better then us, and who think that we are old and very embarrassing ;-( I know that David will have a great time with his friends and bugs, having fun learning, swimming, listening to the teachers (I am so optimistic today) and just enjoying his life  in the wood during the rain.

Alaska adventures

And yes, we are back. Back from a "short" but wonderful vacations. Where were we?

Let me see: Toronto, New York (wait, those were not vacations), Phoenix (7 hours layover, does that consider as vacations?), Portland, OR (thanks for the Star Alliance on taking us on a detour flight) and finally Anchorage.

Yes, we were visiting Alaska. Funny, the first question we would get is: you didn't have enough cold and snow in Canada this winter? The second question: would be I need to see a picture of you with a polar bear. Well, no polar bears this time (November! look out for those ones), but pictures with moose, whales (not with the ones on the ship ones but the ones out side of the ship ones), eagles, brown and black bears, glaciers, mountains, snow, and snow again, are there.

We were taking a cruise. And you know what was the best part of all that? RADIO SILENCE! Yes, we did not have any signal on our mobile phones for 5 days. We got to enjoy the life we haven't been enjoying for the past, well, when did our careers have started, never mind, we haven't enjoy for the past many years.
I do admit that cruising is something we were not considering as a way of travel before but experiencing a free child care, getting to know other nerds like us, seeing the beauty of US, and, yes, that is the most beautiful site I have seen in my life.

I got to the extreme and gave Morten a 2 hour flight on a float-plane as a birthday present.

• (just a tip for those, who will take a cruise in a near or far future, don't ever buy excursions on the ship! You will end up paying 2-3 times more! For a float plane bear watch excursion we would be have been charged 300$ per person (that is per kid as well) on the ship. Just walking outside on the dock and going into the travel information centre saved us 700$ in total). 

Flying over the mountains, into the remote areas, where otherwise you will not be able to get to go, seeing fresh bear footprints in the snow and just enjoying the awesome creation of God was a real treat. But yes, we were quite happy to get to the main land after 2 hours of a bumpy flight.