ha! I bought mines in Canada on holiday as well (cheaper, plus as you say, hard to get one over here with the MOP inlay, although I only got 1 inlay), and took it back home as normal luggage
I've been known to dabble in a bit of sketching and painting, but haven't done much for a while. One of my better efforts in watercolour and gouache:
Well, those are some of the better ones. For every good painting I turn out, I do about 20 that look like a 3-year old's finger paintings...
Just got my competent crew cert from the RYA