Faraway, So Close

Looking at these photos from Barack Obama’s flickr stream feels a bit surreal. Kind of like you’re looking at someone’s vacation photos who you know from work.

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Originally uploaded by Barack Obama.

Or about to be.

After being gone for a month, our time of travel, relaxing, adventure and fun is about to come to an end.
We fly out from Auckland Thursday night at 9:30pm (NZ time), fly to LA, then Calgary, sleep overnight in Calgary and then home Friday afternoon (Saskatoon time). Sounds [...]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here yet, but we’re headed to Australia for 3 weeks and New Zealand for a week and we leave on Thursday. There’s this weird thing that happens when you have a kid where time just seems to stop and you lose track of it - so it still [...]

We had a busy weekend with friends/family/church and then Saturday night Damien started getting sick (threw up once) and got progressively more ill throughout the night with a fever that last until sometime Sunday (Monday?) morning. I knew I’d find it hard to see my son feeling sick but had no idea how hard [...]