Since Andrea and I didn’t yet have a digital camera, the photos in my digital collection for 2003 are all ones that were scanned at some point, partly as I recall, to go on the new PolyWogg website I was designing at the time.

In March, Andrea took a work trip to Hong Kong. There was a park near her hotel, and she took some pictures of nearby buildings. One was identified in our notes as a church, but Google Image Search revealed that it is actually their former Supreme Court building.

It was my turn to take a trip in April. We had an upcoming international meeting to host in Canada, and we were leaning towards the East Coast. So we went and checked out the Keltic Lodge at the start of the Cabot Trail and then down to St. Andrew’s in New Brunswick. For today’s summary, I was deciding between photos of each, but obviously, St. Andrew’s is the more impressive building of the two.

Come June, it was time to hop on a plane together — we flew to Winnipeg to see the wedding of Andrea’s good friends Liam and Nicole. The quality of my photos is not awesome; I must have scanned them at low res as they were intended to only go on my website, not for printing. But it is what I have!

The next day, we went to the Winnipeg Zoo to see the red pandas, although they did NOT cooperate with our paparazzi vibe. Instead, we had to settle for polar bears, birds, kangaroos and tigers.

So that is a wrap for 2003, unless I scan more later.

Andrea and I really didn’t get into digital photos until February 2004, and we haven’t scanned many old photos (yet!). As such, I only have two albums processed for 2002 — one from an outing where she went rock climbing and another from a conference later in the year.

July was the rock climbing outing, where Andrea and Amanda went to Vertical Reality on Victoria Island here in Ottawa. If Andrea later said I was making her climb the walls, well, she had experience.

Over the late spring and all through the summer, I was working with a group of students at Carleton University to organize a conference in September at a downtown conference centre. We got some heavy hitters to come out, and produced a fairly solid report on HR challenges for the time. Here’s our organizing committee.

So that’s it for us in the gallery for 2002. A short review of the year.