Japanese Canadian Curling Bonspiel

So I just got back from a trip to beautiful Sunny Lethbridge! If anyone is wondering what I was doing there, you should read the title! Heh, yeah, I was curling with my dad, uncle, and cousin in a Japanese Canadian Bonspiel (read: curling tournament). It was great, except for the small problem that we lost all 4 of our games. Oh well, considering none of us had ever played together before and we were ALL rusty (ok, my cousin wasn't rusty, but that's because he'd never played before in his life), we actually did pretty good. We all improved a huge amount between the beginning and the end of the tournament, so that's great! Now I'm all set and ready to go play curling again...like I have so much time in my schedule as it is =).

Evelyn and I! Check out http://www.planearium.de/flash/spstudio.html

Bonspiel time!

Since Geoff is too busy to update his blog - I'll do it for him. Geez, is that what girlfriends are for? :)

Geoff is now headed to Lethbridge with his dad, uncle, and cousin for a Japanese-Canadian curling tournament. Geoff hasn't curled in a year and he's third (apparently it's the second most important position so wouldn't it be more intuitive to call it second then?). He has practiced this week however, so hopefully they can win some matches.

I'll let you know if I hear any news.

For those of you in Alberta - have a great Family Day long weekend! And for those university students - happy Spring Break/Reading Week!

The Art Of The Cube

So no one could guess what my latest obsession is. Well, at least they couldn't until they saw me intently fiddling with the brightly coloured cube of which my obsession revolves around. Yes, the rumours are true. I've taken up learning the Rubik's cube. I've gone from a person who had no clue on how to even start working on the silly things to a person who can solve one in 3 to 4 minutes. Not bad, wouldn't you say? Admittedly it really isn't that difficult, once you harness the power of the Internet. You can get algorithms which give you the secret to solving the cube pretty easily. Of course, you have to manage to remember all of them, and if you want to solve it any faster you need to start to learn an exponentially higher number of them. It's been fun working on it while I watch Evelyn working on her assignments and readings, however. Now that I can solve it, I just need to be able to solve it in 30 - 60 seconds, and I'll be happy!