Seasonal Paradise

Richard and Sasha

Best friends. Nephew Richard, with Sasha. Richard is nutso about Sasha. We've inspired him to have a family.

Petr

Martin, Irena's oldest sisters husband. Nephew Petr. Iveta, Irena's middle sister, and her husband, Mira.

Sasha and Aunt Linda

Sasha with my sister, Linda.

Evening Dress : Wedding Day

Wedding Day - April 25th, 2009

The 2nd most important and happiest day of our lives was April 25th, 2009 in Prague, our wedding day. The first was the day Sasha was born. Here we're driving to Louny for the reception.

Wedding Video, With Completely Inappropriate Music

Our videographer is Czech and didn't understand the words to the song he attached to this video.  The movie was meant as a quick message to mum.  My mother (77) was not well enough to travel from Victoria, Canada to Prague for the wedding, alas.

Married In Prague

Old Town Square, Prague

The view as we walked out after getting married in Prague.

The End of Our Pre-Honeymoon

We went to Venice as our 'pre-honeymoon' before going to Prague to get married. Here we're in the water taxi, headed back to the Venice airport just after dawn.

Venice Water Taxi

On A Venice Water Bus

Sasha's First Gondola Ride

Venice Gondolas

C'Mon Dad

This expression is a prelude to Sasha's teens.

Sasha's First Icecream

Sasha tastes her first icecream, in Venice, Italy.

Cheeky Sasha

Dressing Sasha ready for rain in Venice

How USA Sees The World?

Wake Up Juice

Frog Gene

There's a latent frog gene in all human beings. It shows most prominently between the ages of 6 to 9 months.

Octopus In Marsascala

Last Sunday we trekked out to Marsascala on the South East side of Malta, for octopus. They put up a fight.

Ferraris in Prague

This was taken the day Obama was in Prague. Ferraris in Prague, on cobblestones, doesn't quite compute.

First Walk On A Jetty

In Tampa in February

First Swing

In Tampa in February

Future Movie Star

February in Tampa

English vs Czech Idioms

We use the Bank of America American Express card for all our expenses.
Which is great because we get 1.25% cashback on everything. I commented to Irena, "well that's better than a kick in the teeth." In Czech the equivalent idiom is "well that's better than a wire in the eye." I'm not sure which idiom is worse.

Sasha Learns OS X

Sasha has mastered Cobol and is now adapting to her new Mac.

Storytelling In 5 Minutes Flat

Today I filmed my first Online Personals Watch news summary in Prague.  It was pretty poor, but probably does the job.  It made me realise its not that easy being on camera.  Also, its tough to tell a story in 5 minutes.  However, some people have an incredible talent for story telling, like Ted Cheung.  This story managed to move me almost to tears.

Here's another movie by Ted Cheung.