the vista dome http://www.thevistadome.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 en Kooza simply amazing! http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/kooza-was-amazing/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/kooza-was-amazing/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:11:00 +0000 Patrick Uncategorized http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/kooza-was-amazing/ Wow! I went to Kooza las night in Toronto. This is one of the Cirque du Soleil shows that is currently touring.

I laughed. I sat in amazement. And I was fully entertained for what felt like 20 minutes.. but it was almost 3 hours. Simply amazing. The death defying acts were thrilling on their own and then the performers played it up even more with make believe slips. My wife couldn’t even watch at one point. This is a definite must-see.

Just a few notes - the concessions are a rip off - $6.00 for popcorn and $4.00 for a bottle of water, as example. The parking is $15.00. And if you get a popcorn make sure you eat it before you’re under the big top at your seat. The clowns have a habit of going into the audience and stealing a patron’s popcorn to dump it in the audience. That’s funny when it’s somebody else’s popcorn, not when it’s yours.

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/kooza-was-amazing/feed/ Jupiter in July http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/jupiter-in-july/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/jupiter-in-july/#comments Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:38:18 +0000 Patrick events http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/jupiter-in-july/ Last night we went to see a play called Jupiter in July. It was put on by the Milton Players. One of Keri’s best friends is in the play. Her friend, Sharon Steves, was amazing.

Jupiter in July

Keri, Sharon & Trish

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/jupiter-in-july/feed/ Milan’s NHL Dream http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/the-nhl-dream/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/the-nhl-dream/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:55:33 +0000 Patrick events hockey http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/the-nhl-dream/ I am helping a co-worker, Milan, from Slovakia relaize one of his dreams. He has been in Canada for almost two years but has never been to an NHL hockey game. We’ve been talking for about a month about going. So last week we purchased tickets off of Stub Hub. The tickets for two cost about $500 CDN. The regular cost are approximately $100 each (after tax). That means that we paid about 2.5 times the amount. But we didn’t care since for Milan it is going to be a memorable time.

When I bought the tickets online I got them sent to our work. The tickets came in yesterday. Here’s me with Milan.

NHL Dream

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/the-nhl-dream/feed/ Me & the PMP http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/me-the-pmp/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/me-the-pmp/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:16:30 +0000 Patrick education http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/me-the-pmp/ Today I started by 4-day 1-Month PMP Prep Course. There will be fourfull-day classes for the 4 Wednesdays of February. The course is given by Cindy Bell from
PM Star. The first class was excellent. Cindy has a great way of making everybody in the class feel very comfortable.

She made a point of making sure that we organize ourselves to write the exam within 90 days. At the moment my exam date is tentatively set for March 20. I need to do the application and put a study plan together to see what the most realistic date is but that is the date I am aiming.

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Crispy Chicken

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/crispy-chicken/feed/ L(earn)2 Dream Big Event http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/learn2-dream-big-event/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/learn2-dream-big-event/#comments Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:13:34 +0000 Patrick events http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/learn2-dream-big-event/ Last night Keri and I went to a seminar given by L(earn)2 called Dream Big. The programe is set up to help people focus their dreams. The L(earn)2 is rolling out this program to be used to motivate employees within companies.

L(earn)2

One of the games the program had us do was to discuss in a group our dreams and for every action item in our plan the team got a lego in order to build whatever they wanted. Here is Keri explaining her group’s lego project.

Keri lego

There are more pictures of the event at Flickr.

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/learn2-dream-big-event/feed/ Banana Bread http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/banana-bread/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/banana-bread/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:26:22 +0000 Patrick food stuff we cooked http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/banana-bread/ Keri made a surprise for me yesterday. We had some bananas that were starting to go bad so she made Banana Bread. It was incredibly good. We had a piece with my dad.

Banana Bread

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Chocolate Turtle Cake

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/chocolate-turtle-cake/feed/ Drinkin’ in Montréal http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/drinkin-in-montreal/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/drinkin-in-montreal/#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:29:46 +0000 Patrick Uncategorized http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/drinkin-in-montreal/ Last weekend I went to Montréal. There was a ton of drinkin’.

MSN pics

]]> http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/drinkin-in-montreal/feed/ Smoke Meat, The Habs & St. Viateur Bagles http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/smoke-meat-the-habs-st-viateur-bagles/ http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/smoke-meat-the-habs-st-viateur-bagles/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:18:27 +0000 Patrick montreal http://www.thevistadome.com/blog/smoke-meat-the-habs-st-viateur-bagles/ This past weekend I spent the weekend in Montréal. It was amazing. I’m a Montréaler who had not been back on a vacation there for about 5 years. I stayed at my friend Peter’s. All weekend he drove me around.

On Friday night we ate at Schwartz. I had a plate of smoke meat that made 4 smoke meat snadwhiches. The amount of meat served here was just ridiculous.

Smoke Meat

On the Saturday we went to the hockey game. The tickets were courtesy of Peter’s father and were incredible. The seats were excellent.

Habs tickets

And the Habs won the game

Habs tickets

On Sunday we went down and got some bagels at St. Viateur Bagels.

St. Viateur Bagels

There are more pictures of the event at Flickr.

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