July 6, 2005

• Pictures!!!

  Hi everyone.
  Well, we flew back to Ontario on Canada Day, and have been trying to
  find our balance ever since -- in both the equilibrium and financial
  senses: It was such an intense couple of weeks that returning to our
  lives here is a bit odd. And until my paycheque in a week's time, we
  have 14 bucks in the bank.

  But such mundane issues as sanity and finances aside,  I thought
  you might like to see a few pictures. I've been trying to figure out
  how to do this, since a proper recap of the trip would be far too huge
  for anyone to read, so I think I'll just post the images, in
  chronological order, and write a blurb under each so you know what they
  are. Ok, here we go:

  
  Here we have my lovely wife and my mother and I, in St. John's, up on Signal Hill. St. John's is the city I was born in, and lived there until I was 7, so it holds a special place in my heart.

  
  Here we have Crista walking along the trail. It's a beautiful, quick,
  and quite easy hike -- a pleasant way to relax when one has limited
  time. Note the lovely rocks, and the way that the landscape is
  relolutely non-flat.

  
  This is a nice shot of Crista and I, sitting in a field. The fact that
  this is a 15-minute walk from downtown illustrates one of the reasons I
  like Newfoundland so much. I would have liked to sit there all
  afternoon, but alas we had to move on. Back 10 years ago, during the
  early times of our courtship, we spent a lot of time wandering around
  in the wilderness. It's something that's long been at the core of our
  lives, and something which has been absent since we moved from Korea to
  this urban part of Canada. Feeling it again was very nice, but largely
  served to heighten my sadness that it's not something we can really do
  at the moment...

  
  Ok, on we go to Corner Brook, the town where I spent the most years of
  my life and where my family still lives. This is my brothers and I
  sitting on a bicycle rack -- Andrew, the older younger brother on the
  left, Kevin, the middle brother, in the middle. Kevin grew more than a
  foot since the last time I saw him (which, considering that was almost
  3 years ago is not unreasonable, but still quite startling).

  
  Here's the brothers and I up on top of  Marble Mountain.
  We went for a hike, climbing the slopes then wandering through the
  backcountry, linking up to some powerlines and old logging roads, then
  along the highway home. A very pleasant way to spend some time with my
  beloved siblings. Not sure exactly why I struck this cheezy pose, but
  the separate boulders arose from the need to sprint across the rocks
  before the camera's timer went off.

  
  And finally we have a family shot. This was taken as we prepared to
  board the bus to take us back to St. John's to catch our plane. I admit
  to crying that morning. It's very difficult being so far away from
  them, and God willing it won't be another 3 years before we get back
  there again.

  Anyhow, those are some pictures. I realize now that the captions
  actually convey very little about the trip itself. Hmm. Well, I have to
  be up for work in 6 hours, so that's all you're going to get for now. I
  think I'll probably come back to the trip again in some future entries,
  so don't despair

  Take care
  -J-

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