The Chronicles of Travelling Steve

Sunday, October 30, 2005

We Love Katamari

So we've been incredibly strong lately, having bought the sequel to Katamari Damacy six weeks ago and not playing it until Friday. The original PS2 game was hellaciously addicitive and fun and we decided to have a launch party for the sequel, titled appropriately We Love Katamari. We had friends around, drank beer, ate munchies and delicious okonomiyaki cooked by my talented wife and had turns rolling shit up in all sorts of weird and wonderful landscapes. The school, underwater, in the snow, in a firefly glade and most infuriatingly of all - rolling a ball of flame and trying to keep it on fire by feeding it more stuff. Too much fun, and a great night in with friends. It appears that the Friday Night Go-Out theory works if you stay-in but have lots of people over. Lucky that daylight saving ended this morning giving me a whole extra hour to try and beat that stupid cowbear level. Na nah.....na na na na na na...na na na na na nah!

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Wedding photos

Now that the summer of fun is over, it's about time to get caught up on some blogging and get the photos of the wedding up somewhere. I'm giving Flickr a try and it seems to be a pretty good vehicle for getting photos online quickly without too much trouble. Saves me from using up my precious 10MB of webspace with Shaw anyways! The easier it becomes to get content online, the more often it will happen, so hopefully this kind of thing will happen more frequently.

Flickr wedding photo set

Photos and technical stuff aside, the wedding was fantastic. It was so good to have all of our friends in one spot (not likely to happen again for a long long time) with our family as well and we think that everyone now understands why we drive for hours and hours every summer to get out there. We're only just now getting over the lull after the high: having everyone there, getting married, managing to ski on one ski, orgasmic food, horseshoe battles and of course endless tournaments of that Canadian flicking game (croquinole) all contributed to such a wonderful summer that coming home to study, work and do housework didn't quite have the same appeal.

Now that the weather is cooling off though and we have our new Sunshine/Marmot ski discount cards, there are new and exciting winter activities to look forward to and a bit more time inside that will probably see me doing more blogging. Stay tuned folks!