Christmas in Canada is not like the summer season back home where you expect people to take long holidays. It's winter and most of us are working through, pretty typical for up here. Saving the leave days for warmer weather. No snow since the last 2mm and the days have been pretty warm, around 5-6 degrees. But bugger the weather, we all went skating last weekend down at the HarbourFront Centre. It's right on the lake in front of the Toronto downtown skyline. It's $12 to park but free to skate on the huge refridgerated rink. We were all a little shakey first up but got into it again quickly after a 6 month break, just like riding a bike I guess. Cam complained at first and then found his hockey legs and was the last to get off the ice, 'I love skating Dad, I wanna do it every day'.
Work is progressing nicely, despite a frustrating week, and it looks as though our client will have enough work to keep us busy for the next six months. In any case we're definitely not home in Feb, looking more like June, just in time for winter :-). We'll stay as long as they'll have us, but if we get extended more than June I'd expect us to come home for a visit at least. I'm really missing the cricket, as you've likely seen from my emails. I didn't need my mate Mike telling me that he was about to dive into his outdoor spa, turn on the TV for the 3rd Test and start on the first of many of Carltons finest the other day... bloody hell mate you know how to turn a bloke green.
Xmas lights are up outside (a bit pissy really but I'm not buying heaps of 110v stuff that wont work back home) and our tree is looking a treat, just waiting for the fat bloke to lob. Best to all of you, our great family and friends, missing you and our great country terribly, put a lamb chop on the barbie and a think of us.
Andy, out.
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