I have not posted in a while but I have a great excuse this time. I have just completed the Haute Route, and am currently sitting in Zermatt after spending the past 9 days skiing and ski touring, 7 of which were on the Haute Route… I have about 200 pictures so far, and the trip was awesome… there are still 4 more ski touring days left as we are going to poke and tour or way back to Chamonix but not before a day or 2 of touring around Zermatt.

my big adventure for the trip was that I broke both of my skis on day 3, pulled both toe pieces out of both skis… we jimmy rigged them to get me down and thankfully that day we went through Verbier which allowed me to get new skis… course that was a bunch of money I should not have had to spend.. but had it happened any other day it would have been a helicopter out or a LONG walk to the valley if it was safe and not a crevasse ridden ice field… either way it worked out… I will post a longer story with lots of pics in the near future.. first I need to get back to Canada and then figure out where I can put 1.5 to 2 GB of pictures!

So Hi from Switzerland and we’ll be home soon!

Well I have stuff to blog about problem is it will take me a while to write so I thought I would just post some quick fun pictures.

The pictures from the walk Julie and I went on did not turn out, guess she will have to make the 13K pilgrimage with me next time or another time when I remember to bring a real camera and not buy some disposable that didn’t work.. grrrr.. that pissed me off!

Instead here she is from a trip in November mounting the famous bull by Wall Street. My subways stop is a couple hundred feet from this bull, and on the way out from work everyday I get to look out on the Statue of Liberty. Pretty neat and it doesn’t seem to get old, sorta like trying to find the Empire State Building when I walk around Manhattan - it’s my own little light house that helps me find my way.

Julie and I are going to spend a coupe of weeks in August in Spain and spend sometime relaxing and enjoying not being 2000 miles apart. Here is a picture from one of my favorite places in Spain - Peña Furada, the town where my dad grew up. I am not sure Julie and I will get to make it there as it is in the middle of no-where in the mountains. I sure would like to see it again, Dad’s old house would not be considered a suitable cabin for weekend visits by many today (although I am sure he would still be able to live there.. the mice might bug mom a bit though - oh and now Julie won’t want to stay there either.. too bad it is too far away from anything, if we make it there she will have to stay the night).

Time has stood as still there as anywhere I have been to in Spain. Either way Julie and I will have a good time as it is fiesta season when we are there! Time for the ‘Peña Mobile’ and waking up the town at sunrise again with the Charanga… who knows? (Maybe I’ll explain that later.. right now only my family will get a chuckle from that)

Here is a picture that reminds me that time doesn’t stand still and we’re getting older…. After graduation Kobe and I went on a month long climbing trip, it doesn’t seem that long ago, but this May will make it 7 years since we went on that awesome trip… Plus doesn’t Kobe look cute . (I suspect we had not showered for 4 or 5 days by the time this picture was taken.. that is good old fashion hair grease holding that mop in that most stylish of forms.. I hear that Doo is all the rage in Milan this spring.)

Well that is all for now.. Kobe might make me take that pic down, but I have editorial privilege here, so for now it stays.