Strangely Addictive
The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a penguin cam. I can't believe how long I can spend watching it.

Beard Growing Contest
No, I wasn't entered in one, but since C grew a beard for the wedding, his coworkers decided to have a contest.

If you click on the Chinese guy's picture...he dropped out after the second week, and the two pictures don't look much different!

When I first met Chris Peake, he had that weird long mustache thing...I didn't really know what to think (It crossed my mind that maybe he was from Surrey, how bad is that?)...I thought it was his usual look! He shaved before the wedding and I didn't recognize him...it took me about 15 minutes to figure out who he was.

Reply to S's Comment
S shouldn't worry about what he writes. After all, it would have been hard to top his sister's "OK, you can see too" story told at his wedding.

Photos from N & C's Wedding
Great pics by the infamous L.S.

N&C's Wedding

N&C's wedding on Saturday was just perfect! Nice weather, etc, etc. The gurdwara on No. 5 road is also nicer than the one off of Boundary Rd that their "first" wedding/dress rehearsal was at. It was nice and sunny for the pictures but frickin' cold! It was so cold that N was cracking jokes the whole time to keep her mind off the cold.

The food at the Hyatt was really good, but I didn't too much, well not as much as a I normally can. :D (People at work think I have a tapeworm -- I call him Tapey, he's my friend.) It was nice to have a wedding with a small group of people (under 100). Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to talk to a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time. I liked the bhangra dancing, but I wish that the English music that was played was a little more...modern. I guess I could have made a request...(OK, no real complaints, but I am really sick of the songs "Celebration" and "What is Love."

The one thing that went wrong was Nancy was on time, but other people caused us to run late! e.g. The makeup/hair person was half hour late (she got lost and went up the wrong tower), so we were half hour late for the ceremony, which really upset Nancy because a) she didn't not want to be late for her own wedding and b) it is supposed to be good luck for the ceremony to be finished by noon. I guess it was a little our fault too because neither M nor myself were ready to go when the makeup/hair people arrived. I guess we were just waiting on each other and didn't really talk about who would go first. I was pretty from lack of sleep the whole week. Don't know if I made any sense to the people I talked to.

The hotel room (the Discovery Suite) was huge! We got to stay there Friday and Saturday night (too keep N&C awake because they were leaving at 4-5am for their honeymoon.) N has a couple of very ...interesting...cousins, but that is another story. I haven't seen her younger brother, N, for almost 10 years, and I'll add he's turned out very well.

So S tells me I must blog more often. Didn't think anyone read my blog, but I don't really tell people about it. I'm pretty boring. I don't even like reading my own stuff.

Been busy with N and C's wedding! Last night was the menhdi party. The artist was very good. I loved every single one of her designs. I was worried that the paste would irritate my skin. I got it done on one palm and it felt really good - nice and cool, and then on the wrist and back of my other hand. Because the backs of my hands are a little inflammed, it started to tingle a little after 10 minutes, but no worse than putting on moisturizer does. The mixture is made up of mostly oils and herbs. Anyway, the design mostly came off of the back of my hand, because my skin peels a lot as it is trying to heal, but it is very soft where the henna was! The wrist band design came out the clearest because it was on good skin. The design on my palm is not bad, a little uneven, but mostly dark, blurredand smeared in some areas and clear in others. The paste tends to settle into the cracks, causing a dark streak, and then skin has flaked off other spots causing light spot.

N gave us some links to information before the party:
Good general info at indianweddings.ca
FAQs
More general info, including links to designs

CBC Radio was there to do some interviews for a show on multicultural weddings. N and S make very good interviewees...I was interviewed about my Bhangra dancing...not so good. It's going to air at 7:45am on Wednesday, February 12. I think that's the morning show with Shelagh Rogers.

Hopefully I'll write more later, to fill in stuff about the bridal shower, stagette, Jack-n-Jill stag, shopping for our outfits, etc.