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We needed to post this before the last of the snow is gone. It has been a very very mild winter, but we had just enough snow to do all our favourite winter activities.

It has been a crazy couple weeks: with ankle surgery for Guy (hockey incident: 4 weeks in a cast), the annual mining conference (PDAC), a mini vacation in Toronto and 500,000$ contest win for the SGS Geostat Team. Thank god Lucy was around to keep everybody going and happy! The girls got to see the top of the world in the CN tower.   It had sprinkles! So what if it IS absolutely the wrong hockey team!  Guy and his team won a contest (see interview link below for details). Guy's interview on BNN (Canada Business Channel). Check out the 7 minute video here, which gives a great summary of the contest and what we did to win it: http://www.bnn.ca/Video/player.aspx?vid=825726 The girls were pretty excited by the whole thing! The money goes to my company, and I hope we can push it back into innovation for our team.

It's been a bit of a struggle getting everyone out of the house so early on Saturday morning, but we've stuck with it and we're convinced the girls are better off for it! Estelle was terrified of the diving board for the first 5 lessons and refused to jump. Then suddenly at lesson 6 she blossomed and jumped, of her own accord, 3 times in a row. Go figure! Way to go girls!!! Care for another session?

What a lucky treat to travel to a warm, exotic location in the middle of February. Lucy visited a mine in South America - can't say where, but there was an oxygen tank in my room and lots of beef to eat... Mi casa El Carnaval We had a couple of hours to kill so checked out a famous and beautiful cemetary The tomb of Eva Peron Dog and woman buried here?!?

Lucy celebrated at big birthday this year... so we rented a cottage in the woods and made and event out of it! It was a lovely place with snowshoes trails, hot tub, sauna and even a pair of adoring grandparents who came to stay with us!

Nearing the end of the Christmas holidays, we jetted off to Quebec City for a couple of nights in a hotel. It was a luxurious break to swim in the pool, go skating in the evening and take in some Egyptian mummies at the museum. A good start to the year!