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Happy Birthday Ali!

Golden Ave residence

golden 1
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Just got back from a couple of days in Ottawa, reviewing projects with my partner, Grant. Here is a photo of our first project nearing completion.

00 detail b

00 detail b
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as they say.....God is in the details

South Ottawa

South Ottawa
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A house addition and renovation underway in South Ottawa.

Landry Street Pool remodel

Pool (Before and after)
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Before and after shots of a pool remodel for a condominium in Vanier.

main course

main course
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Just took this photo of my lunch as proof that I am eating my veggies while Ann is away..... never mind that this lunch was served at 2:30 in the afternoon.

dessert

dessert
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Ali left me with some dessert...yummy pavlova.

pachelbel

pachelbel
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Last week J came to visit while on his way to PEI. Here he is showing LL the finer points of Canon in D.

pick

pick
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LL looking for the pick he dropped inside.

shoulderlength

shoulderlength
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Ann and LL have gone to Alberta to visit the grandparents in Medicine Hat and Canmore. Before she left she got a nice new haircut (Yay!)

three little monkeys

three little monkeys
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It was a long weekend for everyone outside of Quebec so Grant and Michelle brought their kids N and W much to LL's delight. We picked up some smoked salmon from New Victoria (Victoria and Linton) which our friend Jennifer first introduced us to a number of years ago. I will have to remember to get some more when the parents come to town next, because this is some of the best smoked salmon we've ever had. Grant et al. arrived in time for lunch so we had fresh St. Viateur bagels with smoked salmon and then headed to the water park while LL napped. Luckily the humidity broke and Sunday was not so unbearably hot. After dinner (see next photo) we headed out for Ice Cream on St. Viateur. For whatever reason the Ice Cream place was closed (again) so we headed down to Fairmount for Gelato.

leftovers

leftovers
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Last night we ordered Indian from one of our favorite places- Malhi. Malhi and Bombay Mahal in Parc-Ex are astonishingly inexpensive places to get fantastic Indian food and a sure hit with out-of-town friends.

biodome

biodome
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Today there were severe thundershowers so we headed to the Biodome with the kids and packed a little lunch. After that Grant and co. headed back to Ottawa. Thanks for the visit guys!

bejeesus

bejeesus
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I was leaning on the railing taking photos of some monkeys off in the distance when two monkeys came scurrying down the length of the railing and over my arm scaring the bejeesus out of me. Here's one of them.

frog

frog
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Continuing with the frog shots...

posing of the pnguins

posing of the pnguins
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....and of course no trip is complete without the star attractions.

Christina's Tour of Courage

Christina is taking part in the BC Cancer Foundation Tour of Courage this September- if you'd like to support Christina please follow this link

Stewart + Tsai Architects Inc.

For all you Albertans needing an Architect please note that Stewart + Tsai Architects Inc. is now registered in Alberta! Please stay tuned for updates.