Eating in Japan

This is the alley we found.

We decieded it would be fun to eat out. Ryan and I found a little back alley that had the coolest little resteraunts. They were very narrow and they cooked on a little wood BBQ in front of you. We ate in the one below and this was the guy that talked us in the restaraunt.


I wish I was better at planning what photo goes where to tell the story. Anyways, This is what Carol ordered. It was called fried noodle sauce. The presentation was better but we already dug in before I remembered to take the photo.

This was the view from the window. We ate in a small upstairs room. Just big enough for 4 tables. Look how narrowthe restaurant is.

So we got the menu. I couldn't deciede what to eat. It all looked so good.

Well, after much confussion they brought up menus with photos. There was a lot to chose from. Horse meat anyone????

Us in the upstairs. There was a very friendy couple beside us that took our photo.

This is what I picked from the menu. When I asked what kind of meat it was I was told chicken and pork. My next should have been what part of the pig and chicken did it come from. On the plate there is chicken skin and stomach with some chicken balls. Pork meat, pork liver and mystery meat. There was also some green peppers but they got eaten. Again I took the photo after we dug in.

The resteraunt was great. The beer is really good. You are allowed to smoke in the restaurants but you cannot smoke in the streets. Also, as we were leaving and the female servers were hitting on Ryan and Mark. OOOHHHH your soooo big is what they said to Ryan. OOOOHHHH your soooo handsome. You could be movie star is what they said to Mark. It was very funny.

Japan Stopover

As everybody probably know we are heading back to Canada. One the way home we decided to have a few day layover in Japan. Just some of the things we saw on our fisrt day. We are now getting ready to head to Mt. Fuji. Photos to come. This is a building we can see from our hotel.


The view from our room

Give love a chance.....man......Peace out

A couple of pics of our walk downtown. I'll post some more later.

Abercrombie Cave

Last weekend we went to a friends place. It's about 2.5 hours away from Camden. They live in a small town of 100 people. They have a raindeer farm and I didn't take one photo of a deer. We did manage to see some caves that were near thier house.


This is Paul Halstead and his family.

Me scared of getting wet. The water was cold.

We saw a kangaroo on the way home.

Ryan looking evil.

All the kids.

Mark's 10th B-Day

For Mark's 10 B-day we went to laser skirmish. The kids had a great time.

The boys had pizza for lunch

Mark "the natural born killer" MacLellan

When they were done we played tag or tip as its known down under. All my rugby training paid off.

Heading to Cairns

This was on the way to Cairns.



On the snokling trip

Carol saw this in her travels.

Our Trip to Cairns

Carol and I went to Cairns leaving the kids at a friends house. We went for 5 days. Thats the longest Carol's been away from the kids. The main reason for going was my golden oldies rugby team entered a masters rugby tournament. It was pretty full on. They take their rugby pretty serious in Cairns. One of things we did was mud crabbing then fishing with a hand line. Trouchy (below) our maskot didn't catch a thing....and neither did I.
One of things Carol and I did was break away from the group and went snorkling. I had a great time. Carol had an ok time. She didn't like the 1.5 hour bout ride to the reef. I think she might have ate a bad prawn the night before. She's sure it had nothing to do with being the last to leave the pub the night before.

I will tell you about the Irish pub we went to. They had a couple of Irish guys singing some triditional tunes. We were sitting in a different part of the pub and we were not paying too much attention to them. I went to the counter for a drink and they were half way through Farewell to Nova Scotia. I thought it was brilliant. After giving them a hand with the song I got Carol and we chatted with the guys. Next thing you know they are belting out some Stan Rogers. Later in the evening they sang Farewell to Nova Scotia again(with my help) Poor Carol started to cry (and laugh at the same time). It was a great night.

This was on the river on our fishing trip.

A warm up before a game.

The Camden Rams on the score board.

Me in the bottom right. The only bright one in the crowd.

We needed to bring some beer for the fishing trip. We put a pretty good dent into the booze supply.

This is the nicest boat we saw.

Over all it was a great trip. 5 days to play 1 day of rugby. Both CArol and I had a blast.

September 7th

Ryan turned 16 on September 7th. After a hard day's work at the Sydney Markets on the 6th, Ryan attended two parties for his friends so he didn't have one :( September 7th was also Father's Day here. Mark bought Roy a wine bottle opener from the School's Father's Day stall (which is a complete scam...you donate a present and then send money for you kid to buy something). Now that Ryan is raking in the money he bought Dad a nice apron with a beer bottle opener attached. Seeing a trend??
The grass is growing in weird patches. I'm not sure if it had anything with Roy fertilizing it last Fall.