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Survey Says!

July 13, 2011
Rainwater

Just before the mail strike, a survey came in the mail from our financial advisors office. Not one to usually fill these things out, I took the time to fill it in and mail it back. Partly because it was from his son who is working in the office for the summer and it looked like it was his project for the summer.

Fast forward to today and I picked up the mail. There was another envelope from their office, when I opened it up there was a $100 gift card for The Keg. Sweeet! The letter said I was one of the five surveys chosen to receive the gift card, so either it was my lucky day or they only received five surveys back.

Soccer Practice

July 12, 2011
Rainwater

Sitting at Claudia’s soccer practice. She is at the Panther development practice, it is run by the Mississauga North Soccer Association. Each night they do a different age group. It is run by the club coaches.

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This is where the practice is located.

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Video of Turn 11

July 9, 2011
Rainwater

Some video from the first qualifying session at yesterday’s Free Friday.

 

Great Day at Toronto Indy

July 8, 2011
Rainwater

It was hot and sunny down at the Toronto Indy, there is lots to see and do, here are Gillian and Brittany sitting in the motorized Target shopping carts.

Gillian and Brittany in the Target Shopping cart

One of the freebies they were giving out were reusable folding shopping bags with the Target logo on them. Claudia and Angela checking out the shopping cart. I don’t think it was bigger than the one we found in Parksville, BC a couple of years ago.

Claudia and Angela in the Target Shopping cart

One of the best things about the Free Friday at the Toronto Indy is that it allows you to get up and close to the cars and drivers. The main grandstand overlooks pit lane and as the cars come to pit lane, the drivers come down pit lane either by foot or by scooter. This is Takuma Sato of Japan.

Takuma Sato

Here is Mike Conway of Great Britain. There are three Canadians in the race and only four Americans out of the field of 26 cars.

Mike Conway

One of the three women drivers in the race, Simona de Silvestro.

Simona de Silvestro

This is Sebastian Saavedra of Columbia.

Sebastian Saavedra

One of my favourite drivers is Helio Castroneves of Brazil.

Helio Castroneves

Simona de Silvestro waiting to get going.

Simona de Silvestro

Dario Franchitti (Scotland) coming back into pit lane.

Dario Franchitti

One of the Canadians, rookie James Hinchcliffe.

James Hinchcliffe

Helio Castroneves.

Helio Castroneves

Scott Dixon of New Zealand.

Scott Dixon

James Jakes of Great Britain.

James Jakes

Takuma Sato.

Takuma Sato

Sebastien Bourdais (France) pit crew working on his car.

Vitor Meira

Ryan Briscoe of Australia.

Ryan Briscoe

Ana Beatriz of Brazil.

Ana Beatriz

E.J. Viso of Venezuela.

E.J. Viso

The defending champion from last years race, Will Power of Australia.

Will Power

Coming out of turn 11.

Coming out of turn 11

Sebastien Bourdais

Jr Hildebrand of the USA.

JR Hildebrand

Probably the most recognized face of the IZOD IndyCar Series, Danica Patrick.

Danica Patrick

Mike Conway of Team Andretti.

Mike Conway

You see all kinds of racing fans down there, this lady had a baby strapped to her chest and if you look closely, the baby has a pair of ear defenders on his head.

Baby with ear protection

We left the qualifying early so we could get a good spot where they pass on the way back to the Paddocks. Last year we were on the news (okay so we were in the background) while we watched the cars and drivers go by. Here is two time winner, Paul (The Thrill From West Hill) Tracy’s car.

Paul Tracy's car

Will Power's car

Dario Franchitti's car

The crew shuffles everything from tires to computers back and forth from Pit Lane.

Tire guy

Danica Patrick steering through the traffic.

Danica Patrick

Graham Rahal heading back to the Paddock. Graham is the son of Bobby Rahal who won the first Molson Toronto Indy back in 1986, three years before he was born.

Graham Rahal

Paul Tracy.

Paul Tracy

The Paddock area is where all the racing teams have their trailers and trucks set-up. It is where the teams will do the set-up work on the cars and where the drivers hang out in their trailers between qualifying runs. Firestone is the official supplier of tires for the IZOD IndyCar Series.

Firestone tire pit

Claudia is just a little taller than four of the indy car tires stacked up.

Claudia just a little taller than 4 indy tires

Marco Andretti’s Paddock area. He is the son of Michael (7 time winner of Toronto Indy) Andretti and grandson of Mario Andretti.

Marco Andretti Paddock Pit

Oriol Servia of Spain was out signing autographs.

Oriol Servia

Mr Canada was camped out at Alex Tagliani’s area calling his name.

Mr Canada

On our way out we stopped at the Ferrari Challenge Series Paddock area, as you can see the cars are transported in the top half of the trucks.

Ferrari Paddock

Also running this weekend were the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series.

CTC Nascar

Another great experience at the Toronto Indy. Waiting for the Go Train to head home.

The girls waiting for the Go train

Go Train

Free Friday at Honda Indy

July 8, 2011
Rainwater

Honda Indy Toronto

Sitting on the Go train heading down to Toronto Honda Indy for Free Friday with Claudia, Angela, Gillian and her friend Brittany. This the second year in a row they have opened up the friday qualifying. Photos to follow.

Free Friday at Honda Indy

 

Chalk River Site Visit

July 7, 2011
Work Posts

I did a short trip up to our Chalk River, Ontario site this week to fix some equipment. The site is located on the AECL property, security is tight, no cameras are allowed on site. I headed up on Wednesday to overnight in Pembroke and then on to the site Thursday morning. On the way back to Toronto Thursday, the van I was driving broke down in Northwood, ON. It turned out to be the main grounding cable broke/corroded off the terminal, so it wouldn’t allow me to restart the engine after stopping to gas up. A mechanic from Cloyne was able to diagnose the problem and get the van started using a some of vise grips, it allowed me to get to their garage where the grounding cable was replaced.

Chalk River map

Soccer Photo of the Week

July 4, 2011
Rainwater

Here is my soccer photo of the week from Claudia’s game on Monday. I didn’t make it back in time for Angela’s game on Thursday, but she had a great game. Claudia played goal again for about half of the first half.

Rainwater Ribfest

July 3, 2011
Rainwater

On Sunday we got together with our neighbours for our first annual Rainwater Ribfest. Lars did up some smoked ribs and chicken in an electric smoker. We had tried it out a couple of weeks ago and we planned on the long weekend. Susan made some pulled pork in the crock pot.

So much food!

We also had potatoes, corn, and chicken wings.

More food!

And still more food!

The girls digging in.

Dig in!

Lars looking content. We all ate probably a little more then we should have, but it was delicious.

Lars "Mandarin full"

The girls occupied with their technology.

The girls

Angela and Gillian braiding Madyson’s hair after dinner. We followed up with brownies and cheesecake and ice cream. It was a great evening with our neighbours. Claudia said it’s kind of funny that we called it “Rainwater” Ribfest when it was only our two families, to which I replied “we are Rainwater!”.

Angela, Maddy, Gillian

Out to Lori and Dale’s

July 2, 2011
Rainwater

On Saturday we headed out to Hamilton to Lori and Dale’s place. The girls were looking forward to swimming and seeing their cousins. Here is Alex using his muscles to pump up an inflatable.

Muscle Man Alex

Angela.

Angela

Claudia doing it the old fashion way.

Claudia

Alex and Claudia

Alex and Claudia

We recently bought a new camera, it is a Panasonic Lumix that is waterproof (to 40 ft) and shockproof (from 6 ft). Here are some pictures from it underwater.

Alex

Angela underwater.

Angela underwater

Angela taking a picture of me from under the water.

 

Me from under the water

The quality is pretty good.

Angela

Angela’s Shutout Half

June 30, 2011
Rainwater

Thursday night was Angela’s league game, there were only 9 girls at the game, so there was a lot of room and running. Angela played goalie the first half and held the other team scoreless.

Angela

Here she is making one of her two saves.

Angela making the save

She has a good drop kick and can get it down the field, on this one she got an assist on their second goal. They ended up winning 3-0.

Big drop kick