Brian and Julie at the Daytona 500

Hi there:

Below are some photos of Julie and her dad, Brian at the recent Daytona 500 as well as her description of the good time they had. Sounds like fun. Maybe someday I'll have to go there to see if I can learn to appreciate the sport!

Cheers,

Barry

Here are a few pictures from Speedweek! So hard to choose a few! We had an amazing time and now I have to figure a way to convince my mom to come next year! We had all access pass and a place to 5th Turn (there is a picture of my dad inside) and that is where we went before and after the race for drinks and food! It was a huge place with 5 different rooms. We were at the track from Thursday to Sunday. We got to take in all the practices and races, including the night race. The first day we got there my dad and I were walking outside the track towards the tram to take us under the track into the infield and we heard a very LOUD noise zoom by. By the time my dad looked it was gone! I will never forget his face! I also couldn't believe how many people were there on the big day! It was packed ! I did take the time to stock up on my Dale Jr collection, a teddy bear, a foam finger, one thing that was hard to find was clothes! THank God I could fit into kids clothes so my dad got me a shirt for the day of the 500! I was so sad when Dale Jr crashed on the last laps but I changed my headset over and listened in on the young kid Trevor Bayne's radio. It was amazing experience!

Julie

Hockey Photos from Medicine Hat, AB

Hello there:

Not much news to report here on the Rock. Winter hit us really hard from late January until the first week of March but since then most of the snow we had melted away and we are now waiting for some warmer days to make the grass grow so the golf course will open. At least I am waiting.

Everybody is doing fine. The fishplant is back in operation after the strike by the trawlermen so hopefully they will be open for most of the year. Tyler is finishing up his last year of school and has applied to Memorial University to do engineering - not sure which branch of engineering. His marks in school are great - his latest report showed a 90+ average. Keep it up.

I have some photos that Leo and Tracey passed along. A few are of Josh and his hockey games. Josh is the goaltender in the photos - if he keeps playing he would look good in a Habs uniform. :-)) Also there are a couple of photos of Emma, one of Tracey and one of Leo in his Habs jersey with a Tim Horton look-alike. Don't know who the person is and don't like his sweather!!!! Tracey looks a little glum there - not sure if she's turning her eyes at Leo or not! Probably!!

I have also included a photo of Pat and his two sons, Randy and Colin. Pat was in CBS with Pamela and Danny doing some snow clearing over the winter so he came to Marystown along with the boys to visit mom before he went back to Toronto. This photo was taken during that visit.

The following is a list of Stacey family birthdays during the first week of April. You'll notice one big one there:

April 1 Terry Stacey

April 2 Bob Stacey

April 3 Mom 88th

April 4 Kevin Stacey Big 60

April 7 Bernadette Stacey

Hope all is well with everyone out there. Stay in touch.

Cheers

Barry

Winter 2011 in Marystown

Hey Everyone:

Just a note to fill you in what has been happening in Marystown the past month. It seemed like that winter wasn't going to come once again this year at we approached the last week of January but lo and behold once we got our first storm about Jan 20, it hasn't let up since. I am so sick of clearing away the driveway from storm after storm. I don't think since that time there has been a day that I haven't had to clear it at least once.

Last night we were supposed to have have 5 cm of snow and then change to rain. Well, once I looked out this morning just before 7:00am I couldn't believe it. We had gotten much more snow than we were supposed to get - I'm sure we had about 20cm. All schools and colleges are closed for the day. The same is true for most of the island, however, here it has been raining since 8:00am. It is suppose to rain all day and then back to freezing overnight. Should be slippery tomorrow.

I haven't heard from Pat in a week but I guess he is quite busy with snow clearing these days as there is so much falling that there is nowhere to push it. People are complaining about the Town Council coming by and filling in their driveways once they have them shovelled but there is nowhere to put it. Brutal! Hopefully the worst is over but it is still only Feb. 15. Ah! Well. Grin and bear it. When talking to someone the other day and complaining about the snow he told me about the Newfie who was up in heaven. He wanted to come home!! :-) I guess we have it pretty good here, eh!

I took some photos of the snow around our house here as well as a few one day while I was on a walk to show you what is on the roads.

Other than the snow everybody is doing fine here. Boyd and Bernadette aren't working right now as the trawlermen have gone on strike so there is no fish to process. There are some talks so hopefully it will be over soon.

I am not working this winter so other than shovelling snow I am not up to too much. The last photo shows what I did from Christmas until February 1. These are the books that I read and you can see where my interest lies. They were all quite good reading too. Next to the books is Gladys's Kobo book reader which Cheryl gave her. I am not using that as I've read two books from there - neither sports related though!!

Cheers. Hope everyone is doing well.

Barry

Greg's Tour of St. John's Jan. 2

Hi there:

During Christmas Cheryl's boyfriend, Greg, came from Ontario for a visit. He arrived in St. John's on December 28 and they left for Toronto on January 3. In that time he spent most time in Marystown helping us with Christmas and New Year festivities. Along with that we also did a screech-in for Greg which we did on New Year's Eve. I have posted some photos of these events below which you can all take a look at.

In this post I have included some photos of our day spent in St. John's on Jan. 2. There are photos taken around St. John's as well as some of George Street. How could one come to St. John's and not experience George Street. After dinner at a downtown restaurant called Bianca's we headed to O'Rielly's on Georger St where the Irish Descendants were providing the music. They are a well know local band who plays Irish and Newfoundland music. We throughly enjoyed the evening and early morning. As well we visited Gladys's first cousin Eddie and his wife Rita in Torbay and there are a couple of photos of them included. Btw Gladys's favorite photo is one she took of Chery's legs with the Narrows to St. John's Harbour in the background.

Any questions on any of the photos please drop me a line.

Hope all is well and you all have a very happy and prosperous 2011.

Enjoy!

Regards

Barry