A collection of stuff

We’ve finally unveiled the new Maytree website. Besides the friendly URL’s there is now a cleaner design and content that is better organized. We’ll be ironing the occasional wrinkle and adding new features in the next few days, so keep visiting.

I developed the Wordpress template from a design provided to us. Version 2.5 of Wordpress makes things much easier than I thought they would be and I was able to find some very cool plugins to do things such as the sitemap and navigation menus. It’s not perfect, I’ll try to improve it as I get the time, but the end result is pretty solid, good, semantic html markup and nice css (although that could use a clean-up as well.

By the way, you better like it!

It’s again time for the people of the Moon to get pissed at us here in the Earth because we steal their light. At the moment of totality they look around and everything has turned to fire: the mountains and valleys in furious reds and oranges instead of their more usual gray that they find so soothing and reassuring. The Sun has been replaced by a dark circle surrounded by an angry red halo.

Suddenly the light starts turning blue and moments later all is back to normal. But the people of the Moon remember and fear the next time the Sun will disappear. That’s right, people of the Moon! Tremble before the majestic power of Earth!

We spent the morning skiing some more, stayed on the kiddies slope for a while, then decided to try some of the more difficult tracks. And we fell a lot. I got to meet a tree real close.

Then we checked out and Dan gave us a ride back to town. We had some lunch in a small place before the bus arrived to take us back to Montréal.

That’s the sun setting and lighting the mountains behind. We have spent the day skiing at Mt Sutton (satellite view), a very big park with a lot of ski lanes. Not too many people here today, but tomorrow there will be lots more. However, it’s so big it really doesn’t feel crowded.

I’ve fallen a lot today but we’re all getting better. For the first time ever I don’t think we’ve done too badly.

Flickr photos tagged Sutton, Quebec

So, we are finally in Sutton, Québec. After an uneventful and relatively short bus trip from Montréal we check in at the Auberge des Appalaches and it’s a nice place. The room is a bit small and sparse but comfortable and clean.