After saving up some gift money and a Black Friday sale I was able to buy a new camera body. I got a Nikon D7500. I took some random photos with it. Some of the photos include pictures of Afsheen, pictures of the guys, backyard pictures, pictures of my Star Wars wreath I got as a gift from Afsheen and Scotch that I bought with a gift card I had from my bachelor part!y ...

Some friends were in town and everyone wanted to go the science centre to see the new Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes exhibit. It was lots of fun they had lots of interesting things to see and read. Click to see the photos below. ...

This weekend my parents came to visit us. One of the things we did was go to botanical gardens. We saw the Aga Khan garden, the butterflies and the Japanese garden. It was a fun trip. Click to see the photos below. ...

Afsheen and I had a nice spring break and we went to Italy! We went to Rome, Genoa and Florence. We had a lot of fun, met up with Geoff and Abril and ate very well. I took a few pictures. Click to see below. ...

With some friends Afsheen and I went to Body Worlds at the Telus World of Science. It was animals. It was quite interesting and informative. It was a fun thing to do on a cold winter day. Click to see the photos below. ...

After Christmas for a break Afsheen and I went to Las Vegas. For shows we saw Penn and Teller and a Cirque Du Soleil show called Ka. We quite enjoyed both shows. We ate well and tried a variety of restaurants. We gambled a little bit and made a little money! We did some outlet shopping. We went to the Mob museum and did some CSI work. I took some pictures, mostly of the city. We walked quite a bit sometimes much more than intended. Click to see below. ...

We went down to Calgary for a few days for Christmas. We made some dampfnudel. I took pictures of the process of making them. There are also some Christmas pictures. Click to see below. ...

Over a weekend in July, Afsheen and I went on a trip for our 1 year anniversary to Victoria. We stayed in a nice hotel that was walking distance to most things we did. Some things that we did included Butchart gardens, saw the “x-men” castle, the Royal BC museum, saw some friends and a carriage ride. Click to see the pictures from camera ...

This past Thursday, Silvacom held a family BBQ at the Edmonton Valley zoo. We had the place to ourselves. We had some good food and then walked around the zoo some. It was quite hot out! The zoo gave us an animal talk about their wolves. For the talk they took the wolf on a leash to some water for it to play in and talk about her. While the talk was going on the other wolf in its enclosure quite far away was howling most of the time. It was a fun time. Click to see the pictures ...

This past week Afsheen and I went to Tucson to visit my parents. We had a good trip. The weather was nice and warm almost too warm! We did a lot of things. We went to a botanical gardens, to the desert museum, to the air and space museum, to the miniature musuem, to a Franklin car museum and more. We also enjoyed a lot of good food. Click to see the pictures ...