A Look Back at May

Apologies. Work and travel have conspired to busy up my life enough to keep me from blogging. Also, the advent of Instagram makes it so much easier to post up individual pictures with witty remarks rather than blogging a whole group of pics. I promise to do my best to keep up my blogging efforts despite the convenience of "Instagramming". Anyways, May kinda came and went without too much of a peep so I'd just like to share a few pics from that most special of months.

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Nothing like game night with the crew. This game "Seven Wonders" has become popular for us to play in 2012 and features frantic points collecting across 3 "ages". Doesn't take very long to play through and it can be quite competitive and intriguing since you have so many ways to earn points.

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Did you know there's a "Diva Half Marathon" which gifts successful runners a feather boa, tiara and giant, bling medal for finishing? Congrats to Mari & Lauren (I don't think the Nesquick bunny ran...though he did hand out free chocolate milks) for completing the full 13.1 miles!

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Somen salad plus a Guava juice. A little taste of home in mid-May. Lovely.

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My next car perhaps? Got to see and touch a new 2013 Subaru BRZ when it came to town. Not a very big vehicle, but it does hold quite a lot of appeal (e.g. relatively low weight, low center of gravity and rear wheel drive). Watch this space...

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BBQ with Priyanshu at the McNall's. The first of many for the season hopefully!

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Darren came to town so we decided to go do something fun. Hence, archery (we really wanted to shoot guns, but this turned out to be more convenient). Pretty fun, though I'm sure it has been more than a decade since I last tried. I didn't think it would, but it works out your arms really well!

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I'll end with a b-day card and the quote it contained:

"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." -W. Feather

Here's to many more adventures to come.

Transit of Venus

We took a break from a busy workday to check out this amazing event. Thanks to Alex for bringing his binoculars, which we used to project the image of Venus (black dot) moving across the Sun (big, bright circle) on to the paper. We live in such a cool universe and what a treat to be reminded of that in such a special way. I hope some of you also got to see this in person too as you'd have to wait a long time to see this again (another 100+ yrs).