Monday, October 30, 2006

Lobsters and dingleberries

Dingleberry: made of shit

Dinglefritz: full of shit

Had a great time in Truro, Nova Scotia this past weekend, visiting with the Canada-Wide Science Fair 2007 Host Committee and various YSF, NSFC and NJAC reps. It was actually alot of fun - it's not often we all see each other outside the week of chaos in May. Many beers were drunk over 2 days!! A bit of socializing on Friday night, followed by 12 hours of touring around their various facilities - accomodations, exhibit hall, meeting room rooms - and listening to reports from all of their subcommittee Director's. Steve, Chris and Mike should be very proud of themselves and their team - 2007 is going to be a great Fair. I can't wait!! It was interesting to see where they are at, 6 months out - the point we'll be at a year from now. Of all the people at the site visit, I think James and I got the most out of it. We have a shitload of work to do! Nose to the grindstone now and full steam ahead to May 2008.

Sunday was spent shuttling various people back and forth to the airport, and then we went out to Steve's place to visit and check out his horses. He has 200 acres and 8 horses. Fantastic. I've decided that as soon as my loans are paid off, I have to start saving and looking for a ranch. Must have horses.

Did you know that, as a result of the ban on liquids and gels at the airport, if you buy lobsters at the Halifax airport, they pack them in frozen veggies!! They were fantastic though - cooked them up last night and had a feast.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

...do you have to pay for the veggies?

Hedgehog said...

nope!! the veggies come free!! maybe they're meant as a side dish? :)