The Sea and Seafood

1000th Post, wow, that's a lotta posts!

Its been a pretty good week so far at the Cutting resisdence here in North Carolina.
I have been doing some mountain biking here and here. Both were pretty good, legend park has had a lot more done to it though and it longer. Ian, you would have loved legend park though (except for the massive chiggers), it was smooth but with this random technical stuff, rough spots and various user made jumps.

Today we went to Wrightsville beach, and I spent so much time in the water that I am officially pickled. Why? Because the waves were so totally amazing that Anne and I were competing for wave time against surfers, no exaggeration. The waves were carrying us probably 100+ feet on the wave boards. Some were so big, that with Anne on my shoulders, they still were quite a bit taller and hit us hard enough to send tumbling uncontrollably in their surf. So we spent about 6 hours doing that. Maya loved the sand and had a ton of fun when we spashed her in some of the smaller waves too. So much fun.
Then we went to a restraunt called King Neptune's for supper, and it was suculent. Amazing food and great service.
A very good day it was and I had a really good time with Courtney and Kyle.
Tomorrow I think we are just staying around the area, and I think I will finally get the triffle I was promised for my birthday. We plan to leave early sunday morning to make it back to Anne's cousins to stay the night so Anne can to go to her class in Toronto on Monday.

Filling the gas tank 3 times in one day

So yesterday we drove from Toronto to Anne's sister's house. We left Toronto at about 2:30pm and walked in Kathie's door about 4:30am. If we figure about 1.5 hours worth of stops, we made pretty good time.
The trip was pretty uneventful and seemed pretty fast. Maya slept lots and when she was we listened to Stephen Kings "Cell" on CD. We had planned on dividing the driving up pretty equally, but I ended up doing about 11 hours of it which was fine as we tend to fight a lot more if Anne's driving for some reason.
So we are here until Satuday (i think), and will be back in time for Anne's class in Toronto on Monday. I plan on mountain biking and Anne is just planning on hanging out with her sister I think.

Birthday Boy

So today I turn 29. I actually don't really care that much about age, as its quite apparent that it has very little to do with ones mental and physical prowess as long as you are active in both areas. I definately am started to get more grey hair but I have had a lot of grey in my beard four about 4 years so I don't mind that either.
Not sure what I am doing today, as Anne is working and I dno't have a car. Maya and I will probably hang out and do our usually stuff we do while Anne is gone all day.
The proper birthday cake (or triffle in this case as its what I want this year) celebration will probably wait until we go down to North Carolina next week to visit Anne's sister.
I already got my present, which was a new real wheel/rim/cog for my mountain bike so not much going on there either.
So a rather ho-hum birthday for me on a cloudy and cool day, which is just fine with me.

The future is now

This is what living in the 21st Century is all about. Who needs flying cars when you have LED embedded t-shirts. I want to play Counter-Strike on my sleeve when watching Maya play *insert sport here* in a few years.