Just for fun

14 September 2009

How Far did the Cottrills Travel?

I know, you’ve been waiting for the grand total – just how far did our van travel over the summer? In 79 days, it went…

19,329km
12,010mi
It may interest you to know that the circumference of the earth is about 40,041km or 24 881mi. Yes, that means we travelled the equivalent of almost halfway around the world this summer! 🙂

People keep confusing me because they want to know how long our trip was, and what they mean is how long from Canada, as if we were hanging out in one place and then travelling from there. The fact is we were travelling all summer, and didn’t spend more than a few days in one place at a time. So that 19,329km of travel was spread out all summer, but if you’re wondering it was about 7 days of travel each way to Canada and back.

I’ve added more pictures of our trip to our gallery, and I’ll keep working on it. I still plan to post a few thoughts and videos here at the blog during an "Ontario Week", so stay tuned.

6 August 2009

Fun in Northern Ontario (video)

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This is just a collection of video clips of some fun things that we did while we were in northern Ontario. Don’t miss the beautiful scenery. 🙂

Thanks to all the old friends and new who have made our visit to Ontario so great so far!

18 July 2009

Christopher Lake, Saskatchewan (video)

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Today we went to Christopher Lake to the beach.

Now some people may be surprised to know that, since moving to Mexico in 2006, we have never once been to the beach. The kids have been to a beach in Canada many years ago, but they were too young to remember. So last night I was trying to explain to them what a beach is.

I have here about 5 minutes of clips from the beach. This may be a "grandparents only" kind of a video, but feel free to take a look if you like. I’m just trying out my video-making skill. Good chance to practise.

4 July 2009

Cousins at the Zoo (video)

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Sorry, playing with video again. We decided to go to the Calgary Zoo with Tracy, Jevon and Ashlyn (Shari’s brother/Tracy’s husband Jeff still being away at work). So here are a few clips of our trip. Incidentally, all the kids were wearing their new official matching Looney Tunes/Mexican National Soccer Team jerseys.

3 May 2009

A Dog and His Rock (video)

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A dog belonging to our friends the Yinglings in San Juan del RÃo, Mexico, has a pet rock.

The Yinglings had us over at their house for a Sunday service and some pizza, and I took this brief video of their two dogs. The one, playing the his rock. The other could not understand his friend’s fascination with geology, and just wanted him to play something normal…