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Louise is gone, we are 2 lonely puppys again We didnt have time to do Stanley Park or kayaking, but we still did some cool stuff over 2 weeks i think. I hope you liked it Lulu!!

I have uploaded photos from our adventure on the top of Grouse Mountain (we didnt climb it... too lazy , we took the skyride). Photos are available right here. we saw bears again, behind fences this time

Yesterday we went to the festival of lanterns with Chris & Cora, in a park near where they live. The place was full of lanterns, torches, candles... around a lake at night, it was spooky!

A few beers and Jameson later, and we were shooting ice cubes at the skytrain with a slingshot (fr: lance-pierre). Chris won the game 7/6 , that was close I guess we scared a few people in the train anyway.

These days there is a big fireworks competition in Vancouver, 4 countries are competing to be champion, so every couple of days there is a huge 30 minute firework display at night. We kinda missed the 2 first ones, i ll try to use my fireworks mode on the camera and see if i can get some good shots. Next country: czech republic! That's the biggest fireworks competition in the world and its here in Vancouver

ps: i shaved today!

After risking our life for you, we managed to spot a giant wild black bear and i took this video! We were sitting behind a fisherman's house and he came in the backyard. He was maybe 80 meters away from us, scary

All the photos from the Island are on Flickr: click here
ps: we have also seen:

a bald eagle

some more seals

2 families of otters

a bambi

Map of the Island

The terrible battle has begun! who will survive? Puppy the bold doggy or Piou the smart cuicui...

Hey

I have uploaded the final battle of our movie JcommeJedi, the most famous starwars fans movie ever made. For those you dont know this masterpiece of cinema, have a look here to see the full length version. I couldnt upload the entire video en Youtube as they only accept 10min max. So if you want to check out my actor studio skills, look at the full version !

Otherwise here is the youtube video:

Don't hesitate to vote for the movie on the website and to give us the full rating we deserve
I will keep you inform of this success story...

Thanks Guillaume, Jerome and Aymeric, and Georges as well

halloa

Yesterday, to escape the italians fans, we decided to go to UBC (University of British Columbia). UBC is located at the extreme west of the vancouver peninsula, hidden in the trees. This campus is huge, like a small city. It reminds me of my high school in La Baule, beach, forest...cold doggin style

We arrived at the museum of anthropology but it was closing in 10min. So i guess it will be for next time, maybe with Louise!

We then found a path through the jungle to the beach. The forest looked like the one in Jurassic Park, with huge trees and ferns. Have a look at the album.
On the beach we ve seen a guy, he looked like a survivor from a wreckage. He was totally naked! with long hair and beard and a big stick. Crazy! exactly like tom hanks in Cast Away

We have also seen seals in the sea! the mummy with a baby and some others. That was so strange, we were on the rocks and they came close to us. They even try speaking to us in the seal way "aouuu aouuu aouuuu".

Funny moment: Jen being attacked by a giant wasp If you listen closely you can hear the nasty wasp.

I cant stop crying since 2 days now, we didnt get it!! That was not supposed to end like this! I was already planning to ask Jen to sew a new star on my french jersey. Well I can still do it, it will be funny. I was motivated that morning, i got up extremely early, something like 9h00, i know we are insane! We had french flags painted on our faces, ready to win! but ...didnt happen. awww well, les ragazzos de italia played well, and they didnt get the cup since 24 years so i suppose it is fair.
So we arrived on Commercial Dr. one hour before the match, the street was packed with italians fans and some french, 1 french for 8 italians i think :). every single pubs and restaurant was full to the top. We couldnt get in anywhere. But we managed to fit into the Portugues cafe "Joe", in a room with 200 others people watching the match on a huge 36cm screen, the TV came straight from the 70's see here.
The atmosphere was really good, even if the room was too hot! 130 minutes in a microwave:)
In this pub, i recognized a french guy and his girlfriend ( Matthieu&Elodie), i was reading their website when i was in Ireland and i followed online their little adventure here in Vancouver. So that was very strange to meet them here! the world is so small! So we could cry in group after the defeat! We met later other of their friends, french, canadians, egyptians, Panama's.... It was very friendly anyway, and i think we were the last french in the street. we must have stayed their most of the day, drinking beer, eating sushi and singing la marseillaise Some of us even went live on City Tv (big news TV channel), photos on flickr... hehe (attention images choc!)
We finished the day in Yaletown (south of downtown) in a trendy bar/restaurant eating pizza... ( i know shame on us )

All the photos are online on my flickr album, its here!

Ok this is now a few weeks since i recieved Mac. First, it is still working fine
It didnt really crash yet, altough we had some weird problems with internet browsing some time.

Things i like about the mac:

• the design, i love the apple touch.
• the colours on the screen, the excellent keyboard, the 2 fingers touch pad thing (scrolling with 2 fingers)
• my new logitech mouse (after a while the touchpad sucks
• fun software : Comic life to create comic books, i ll try to make a roman-photo soon (ps: nick, ric, emic : ps de FJT style pour le roman photo )
• the useless remote control, just because its cool, but we dont really use it.
• the magnetic power cable, very nicely done, if you trip on the cable, the laptop wont fall
• the spotlight search, search for files in realtime, and no need to wait 5min like on windows.
• the wifi! it picked up 15 network around here and its cool to chat where you are in the bed or on the balcony !

Things i dont like about the mac:

• not enough USB ports!
• iPhoto, too messy, it creates backup of backups of photos. Cant rename the files, its crap. i want AcdSee back
• iTunes, why is it copying everything into the library? i want to play external files
• i cant write on my 300Gb hard drive because its NTFS drive. And i cant format it because i have nowhere to put my 300GB
• Mac book is so damn hot!! if you have it on your lap, its very hot and im worried for my "underbelt" area
• some software dont work with the intel mac yet
• i dont have a case to transport it

hey los potatos,

I have now a new online album, where i will upload my photos from now. I realized that using the blog to display photos is taking too much time, and is going to explode my space on the server. I opened an account on Flickr.

So have a look at the new galleries here :

As you can see on the right sidebar, there is now a link to the gallery as well, with random photos.

I think you can leave comments on Flickr, but you have to have an account, or a yahoo ID, which is a bit crap if its only to leave comments. Anyway you can still write love messages on this blog

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Commercial Drive, is the latin area, were you can find the italian, portuguese and brazilians community. The street is full of italian, greek, portuguese, brazilians bar and restaurant. After the brazilians, its the time for potuguese fans to cry on the drive as france has just kicked their ass!!

And soon it is going to be Italy's turn as well. No one will escape
Sorry for the lack of news these days, but we were too busy drinking beer to celebrate

Crazy on Commercial Drive after the victory on Brazil!! mais ils sont ou? mais ils sont ou les bresiliens !!!.... dans l'avion