Monday, 17 September 2007
Latest happenings
This weekend we had my mother- and brother-in-law over for dinner on Saturday night, and went out with four generations of my paternal inlaws on Sunday. We went to a restaurant and then back to Emilie's grandparents for poker and trivial pursuit (I won the latter!). The occassion was to celebrate September birthdays so mine was included, and I got some nice presents (a couple books on gardening and a model train, among others).
Besides family visits, a large part of our week-end was taken up in Super Paper Mario, which just came out in Europe for the Wii, and which Emilie and I are both enjoying. Before this she was replaying through New Super Mario Bros. to retrieve every single star coin in the game—I've been telling her that she's been playing so much since she's pregnant that we'll have to name the child Mario if it's a boy!
The rugby world cup has been fun to watch so far, although France's opening loss to Argentina was a disappointment. (I would've hoped the USA could've beaten Tonga too, but the fact is we just aren't a rugby union playing country.) Still, no matter who's playing it's an exciting game to watch, and some of South Africa's tries against England on Friday night were downright amazing. If France doesn't make it to the end I'll be rooting for the Springboks, although the conventional wisdom is that nothing can stop the All Blacks this year, curse or no curse.
