Monday, April 11, 2005

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Sunday, April 10, 2005

Annecy

We went on a little day trip to Annecy with the Fujitas about 10 days ago. Unfortunately, the weather was not very good... The day dawned with heavy clouds, but the weather forecast for Annecy said "sunny, partly cloudy". So we left Geneva with our hearts full of hope. Then it started to rain.

In the car...




We paused briefly to take a look at this very picturesque bridge, le Pont des Cailles.




It spanned a fairly steep ravine. The river running below was really far down. Here is the view from the bridge.



Don't look down...



The view from between the slats of the bridge. The white blob is my hand, because looking down from between the slats was near panic-inducing. (I'm not so good with heights.)



The picturesque little river in Annecy.




We had to cancel our picnic by the lake because of the rain. We borrowed a table at the local fast food joint and ate our food there instead.



View of the city from castle grounds.




Some guy had a large opening in his roof. I wonder how that works.



View towards the lake and mountains.




Le Chateau d'Annecy.



Strolling down a side street.



Picturesque.



Locks?



Seb by the lake.




The four adventurers.

Flowers

I took some pictures of the pretty flowers growing near our building.







Gianduja


Delicious gianduja Easter bunnies!

Sunday, April 03, 2005

The Reincarnation...

My other blog is no more. Jesus opened the doors of heaven to it last week... It's in pretty good company, considering high profile deaths of Terri Schiavo and the Pope in the past week. Maybe it's in purgatory? Okay, blasphemy and morbid humour aside, the hard drive in the server broke. The most recent backup of my blog is from a few months ago, so I've lost the recent posts since I archived the Hokkaido posts. I still have all the photos, so all I've lost is the text. Yeah, and the world weeps.

As you can see from the post below, I created this blog before I left for my Europe trip a year and a half ago, then abandoned it when Seb made the other one for me. Back then, uploading photos was more of a pain with blogspot. Now there's Picasa (which I already use to organize my photos), Hello and Google behind all this, so it should be better. (Picasa is excellent, by the way, and it's FREE! Just the way I like it.) I figured since this blog already exists here, why not use it? So this will be my internet home from now on...