PanAm Panoramas

Views from the top of Christ the Redeemer (on Corcovado) and Sugar Loaf Mountains. Our hotel is to the right of the cylindrical black tower. You can see how close it is to one of the main slum/ghetto areas.

Competition Chaos

About 2 hours before the women's all-around artistic gymnastics final. Click to enlarge.

Rio Recap

It's 20 minutes before the bus leaves for the venue...where to begin!
This is day 6 in Rio de Janerio. Certainly one of the more interesting starts to an international gig that I've been involved with!
Due to a contract/payment dispute between the PanAm Games Organizing Committee & the power company, the plug was pulled on the power at many venues (including our)! We finally got power the day before the competition was to begin and attemped to achieve 3 days of setup in 1 day!
Needless to say, we were not ready to go the next morning....but began our gymnastics coverage at 1pm (second session)....which went surprisingly well!
Rio is an enourmous city....a great of deal of poverty, and sprawling slums. Extensive crime is definitely something to be wary of. One of our crew came upon a dead body on the beach while jogging on her second morning here. People were just walking around it on the beach!
Saturday we began work at 645am...and got back to the hotel at 230am the next morning. The day after, however, our crew-call wasn't until 5pm, so a group of us spend most of the day swimming, body surfing, sipping coconuts and cliff diving...at Ipanema beach.
Here's a shot of Ipanema Beach and 2 pictures of the view from my room at the Intercontinental Hotel. More to come!

Preschool Picnic

Lily's end of year preschool picnic. They played, ate, did the limbo, sang YMCA and said goodbye for the summer. Lots of fun.

Camera-Shy Cousins

A photos shoot with 3 cousins: Lily, Josh & Joel. A Father's Day gift for Grandpa.

Summer Skiing!

May 30th. 26 degrees. Skiing in a T-shirt at Whistler. Doesn't get much better than that!
Oh yeah...and I ran into this guy on my way up the sea-to-sky highway.

Concert Crash

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Lily's final ballet class a few months back. Take note of the dramatic ending (which, yes...did end in some tears!).

Business Balance

My new home-office chair!

Facebook Friends

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Yes...it is addictive.
And Yes.....please join and be my friend!
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Birthday Bike

April 15. And now we are 4! A ride on the new bike in the morning, and a fun family party in the evening.

Tumblin' Tikes

April 14th, Lily celebrated her birthday with a party at Omega Gymnastics with 6 of her friends, followed by pizza & a Barbie Ballerina cake. Thanks for coming everyone!

Brisbane Blast

A tropical ending to our quick visit home, with a trip to Brisbane to see school-friend Michelle (http://www.annesley.sa.edu.au), and her beautiful kids: Thomas, Sarah & Oliver. (click to enlarge)

Wedding Wait

Hanging out in Warburton before & after the wedding. Including some pampering (Nana doing Lily's nails!), and a trip to Heallesville Sanctuary.

Warburton Wedding

A quick 2-week trip to Australia for Lily & I to attend David & Angela's wedding.
It was a beautiful ceremony, and a swingin' reception. So great to see family, including our new extended family! Lily was re-aquainted with cousins Ruby, Otis & Banjo....and met new cousin Caelin.

Kickin' Cones

Seymour Snow

Toboganning at Mt Seymour. Other than a challenging climb for a pre-schooler, and a bit of a bump on the nose after a tumble.....it was a ton of fun! (click to enlarge)

Once Apon a Time...

A Story by Lily Everett MacIntyre as dictated to her Grandmother:

I love you my little Princess. Will you come back after you get strawberries in your basket? Oh no Daddy, there's a fire, make a smoke alarm. Then the fire people came. We ran outside to the neighbours house to have a visit. Then she got her favourite cat because it was sick, and then she took it to the vet. She said to the vet, "my cat's sick". Then she named her cat 'Dance Everett MacIntyre Sing'. Then she danced and danced with her baby. She danced very quietly and she jumped from square to square on one foot, and then the other. She ran across the lake. She ran across the bridge before the Troll came. The Troll said, "who's that skipping over my bridge?". Then she said "help mother!" and she climbed up into the castle and got to her bedroom. The Troll followed her but didn't see her because of her mother's message. Then she popped up and threw the Troll under the bridge. "Move the ladder" she said to her mother, "before the Troll comes back"

Doorway Drama

A charming photo of Lily & I in our doorway, on a cold Saturday morning. This was taken during a photo shoot with Steve, who is putting together something for VTV's 10 year anniversary in September.

Christmas Chaos

Some pics of our Christmas. We had a big family Turkey dinner at Beth & Dave's on Christmas Eve, Win & Sharon (Jason's parents) over for brunch on Christmas Day...then their turn for some more Turkey that evening!

Downhill Debut

Cypress Mountain.....and Lily's very first day of skiing!!!!!!