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December 20, 2006

Winter plans, Tremblant, and CHRISTMAS!!

...well - in short, Mo and I are staying in Montreal. I'll be staying with CH Robinson's (www.chrobinson.com) Montreal office and will supervise the Montreal and Ottawa sales areas. Maureen will keep working at Java U part-time and will also take a couple classes at Concordia University. We've rented a great loft apartment and will post pictures of it in the new year once we move in and get it all set up to our liking.

The CH Robinson Christmas party at Mont Tremblant was awesome - we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed staying in the Fairmont Hotel - although it definitely was a bit weird to have people waiting on us hand and foot.

However......

....last weekend (Dec 8th) we stayed at an even nicer place. Jisca (one half of the couple we travelled with in Asia) was asked to sing for 2 hours at a cocktail reception for a big mountain event. I agreed at the last minute to help out and ended up sight-reading Jazz and pop music (Dianna Krall, Beatles, Chantal Kreviazuk, etc) ........extremely stressful but it went off pretty good. Evidently Mario Lemieux showed up there with his daughter (for those of you non-Canadians out there he's one of the most famous hockey players of the last 30 years and highly recognizable) but I was so focused on not messing up that I didn't see him.

After the reception, we all got to stay at the most spectacular place I've ever been. It even managed to make the 5-star Fairmont of the previous weekend seem cheap...

It was a special Intrawest time-share place called "Storied Places" - membership costs $250,000 one time "admin fee" + $10,000 monthly fee - all this for 6 weeks each year. Unbelievable...but it was so beautiful. I posted a few pictures, but the real quality of the house was in all the small details - maybe if I work really hard for a few more years... :-)

And CHRISTMAS!

We fly to Caronport, Saskatchewan on Dec 24th for 1 week to see my family before then flying up to Clayhurst, British Columbia for another week to see Maureen's family. We're really looking forward to our time there and will be sure to post some pics and update our blog over hte holidays.

Merry Christmas!!!

Posted by David at 11:48 AM

December 1, 2006

Christmas at Tremblant...

Mo and I are off tomorrow (Dec 1st) for my company's Christmas weekend...we're staying in the top left place so I'm sure we'll be taking plenty of little soaps home with us...

We'll post some pics next week after we get back.

Posted by David at 11:37 AM