Wedding Bells

We recently had the opportunity to celebrate my sister's wedding back in the Motherland.  There are much better and more interesting pictures with happy smiley people in them elsewhere, but for now here are a few pics that we snapped at the event.  If you are interested in the venue itself, check out the website for Q Haute Cuisine.

If you haven't already been there, you can check out my sister's blog for the super secret recipe to the Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies of Heavenly Goodness.

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies of Heavenly Goodness

We didn't actually drink all this wine.  I think.

ScaryMsMary's Homemade Bouquet of Doom

Not sure why I took this picture, but it was interesting

The travel theme was prevalent throughout

Q Haute Cuisine

Glowing table decor

Appetizer - Scallop and Bacon in a creamy broth (not yet present)

Main Course - Grilled Salmon

Bike Trip

Just wanted to share a few pictures from today's bike trip.  A few weeks ago we bought a Schwinn Meridian Adult Tricycle from Walmart so that my wife could go grocery shopping and run some quick errands without the car.  Today we decided it would be a good idea to venture out into the scorching wasteland and ride over to our local library without really knowing how to get there via bike paths.  Fortunately, we only got lost in a neighborhood of multimillion dollar homes and made the round trip in about an hour with frequent stops.

Oddly enough, my office is pretty much right on the way from our apartment and the library, so we stopped there for a quick break.  There are some statues in the courtyard by my building as well, so I snapped a few pictures of the majestic trike in its natural habitat.

 

ScaryMsMary's grocery getting chariot of doom

Tongzilla's office of doom

The local library of uh... doom.

A Chimera.  I have no idea why.

Still majestic.

And so, a new adventure begins...

So for some reason I never really got around to starting a blog.  Now that my beloved life-organizer (love you honey!) and I are in a new country, I figured that it would be about the right time to start sharing our experiences in this new and frightening world called "America."

For those of you who are not aware, my wife and I recently moved from Calgary, Canada to Denver, USA in the year 2012 AD.  Although the reasons behind such a move were somewhat diverse, they revolved mainly around a few simple thoughts:

• My wife hates being cold.  Seeing as her body temperature generally ranges between "sub-zero" and "glacial" the chilly winter weather in Calgary tended to cause untold suffering and misery (and I am not specifying for whom).  Denver winters are somewhat milder, and summers are blistering hot, at least from my perspective.  The days that I describe as "OMGMYHAIRISONFIRE" my wife tends to refer to as "adequate." 
• My wife enjoys her free time.  She has many creative hobbies which tended to directly conflict with the time she spent in the office working.  She is currently focusing primarily on jewelry design, although past dalliances included cake decorating, dress making, stained glass er... fabricating, and interior decorating.
• I was offered an interesting new opportunity.  Obviously we needed a method to finance a move to a new city, and the fates were kind enough to grant me a job offer at a communications company headquartered in Denver.

Hence, our new story begins in a new city and new country.  I freely admit that the culture in Denver isn't a huge change from Calgary, but there are enough differences to make it interesting.  Both cities are in close proximity to the Rocky Mountains, have four distinct seasons, and are essentially economic hubs which attract a zombie-like hoard of job seekers from elsewhere in the country.  They tend to differ primarily in cultural diversity (I really miss having a Chinatown), daily temperature, and business diversity (Calgary is 99% dependent on the oil/gas industry, while Denver tends to have more tech/communications companies).

In any case, I hope to add some pictures and document some of our adventures in this blog so that we can share our experiences with our family and friends.

Henceforth, the world shall shudder as I unleash the horror that is my mind upon it.