My birthday in 2014: With my wife, son and the granddaughters.
Our dog, Vela (Labrador Retriever), at 3 months in 2002 Another two years passed...
After a break of two years...
June 2011
Halloween 2010
Summer 2010
December 2009
November 2009: Emi and Kimiko as Japanese ladies
October 2008: Celebrating the 2nd birthday of Kimiko
April 2008
October 2007
The 34th Birthday of Kuba, May 3, 2007.
The 2007 March Break vacations in Cuba of Emi with the Grandparents.
Christmas 2006 and Jan/Feb.2007.
Kimiko born on October 21, 2006.
Emi, 3 years old, December 6, 2005
Photos from the birthday party:Emi, summer 2005
Emi, 21 months old, September 8, 2004
Emi, 11 months old, November 7, 2003
Emi, 8.5 & 10 months old, August 28 and October 10, 2003
Emi, 7 & 8 months old, July 15 & August 11, 2003
Emi, 5.5 months old, May 19, 2003
Emi, 3.5 months old, March 16 and 24, 2003
Emi, 2.5 months old, February 26, 2003
Emi, 2 months old, February 16, 2003
Emi, one month old, January 6, 2003
Emi, the first 5 days
After the great success of our Family Reunion in 2002, we met again in Australia. Rosemary and Stefan were the incomparable hosts. Dana & Andrzej came from from Gdansk, Poland; Anna & I were in Australia and New Zealand because of the International Astronomical Union conferences. It was a memorable event, started on the evening the visitors came to Rosemary and Stefan in Brisbane then continued through further festivities at home and through the most enjoyable visit of Ben, the son of Rosemary and Stefan, when the four somewhat similar individuals took a photo.
We continued our great time in Culoundra, some 150 km North of Brisbane where our hosts rented an extremely nice summer apartment (the Australian winter did feel to us as a summer!). We continued with meals, talks and even a dip in the moderately cold (20C) ocean.
The parents of the groom were happy to start the ceremony...
...in full excitement of the moment.
Akiko led by her Father...
and
the Mother of Akiko led by the younger brother of Akiko.
Kuba and Akiko, ready but relaxed ... Note the cranes, the symbol of good luck.
Exchange of the rings and with the parents of the
groom in two photos (first and
second).
The mother of the bride prepared a traditional
sake ceremony. There was also a somewhat Polish bread and
salt ceremony at the beginning of the wedding.
The whole party in front of the David Dunlap Observatory
building during the photographic "break" after the
ceremony and before the reception.
Kuba and Akiko during the photography session.
The dance during the evening reception, the kiss and the cutting of the cake.
The descendents of Helena and Gorgoniusz (Franek) Rucinski of Grudziadz, Poland ( charming old photos), met on July 27 - 29, 2000 in Gdansk. Dana and Andrzej were the formidable hosts. Stefan came from Australia and we (Anna and Slavek) came from Canada. This was a memorable event.
The group of 11 in the "reunion" T-shirts. Upper row: Michal, son of Dana and Andrzej, Andrzej, Stefan; middle row: Tadeusz, father of Andrzej and uncle to Stefan and Slavek, Dana, wife of Andrzej, and Anna (Hanka), wife of Slavek; lower row: Monika, wife of Michal, younger Aleksandra (Ola), daugther of Aleksandra, Zuzanna (Zuzia), daugther of Monika & Michal, Aleksandra, daugther of Tadeusz, and Slavek (Slawek). Unable to come to Poland: Rosemary, wife of Stefan and their children, Ingrid and Ben as well as Jakub (Kuba), son of Anna and Slavek.
Five of us: Tadeusz and Aleksandra (upper row) and Slavek, Stefan and Andrzej (lower row).
Four of us: Stefan, Tadeusz, Andrzej and Slavek.
The fiancé of Kuba, Akiko , and his parents surprised Kuba by organizing a birthday for him with some 20+ of his friends attending.
Kuba and Akiko. One of the gifts and the (singing?) father are also there.
Kuba is really surprised and happy
Kuba with a few of his friends
Kuba with Akiko and another group of friends
Kuba testing the content of the liquid gift
Christian Veillet asks: What happened to the beard of this man?
Anna and Kuba in front of the entrance to the CFHT dome at the altitude of 4200 m.
Anna as a housewife (the concept and function she dislikes).
At about the time that we were in Hawaii, Kuba had his official graduation in 1997. You may like to see Kuba in his "I-have-finished the-Waterloo-University" outfit. Note the Steel Ring of a Canadian engineer, supposedly made of the famous bridge that disintegrated by itself.
In the office at the Observatory.
By the fireplace, in the DDO Library.
