Casa Loma Court Wasaga Beach

First port of call - Visit Elsa and Ken who are about to become first-time parents at the end of December. We're very excited to meet our new grandchild, probably by Skype the first time, in late December. Our travels will take us to Florida, Texas, Arizona and Utah, with a possible trip to India in May to celebrate Eugenie's 50th. birthday.

The bump is very big!

Decided to write down info about our travels. First leg is not very long and not too far. Nottawa, Ontario to Maitland Bridge, Nova Scotia, distance of about 6300km or 3700miles (i think!).

Dave, myself and Ozzy dog are off on the weekend for a couple of months, with moving van and all our worldy goods, to our little fixer upper (well quite big fixer upper really) in Maitland Bridge, NS. Only us 3 as both kids (Hi ...

Da heute die Sonne schien, haben wir beschlossen, auf dem Skylontower die Aussicht auf die Niagarafälle zu geniessen. Der Turm hat eine Gesamthöhe von 160 Meter.

Nachdem wir dann die Fälle nochmals unten besichtigt haben, machten wir uns auf den Weg Richtung letzter ...

... the first to arrive at the home for the elderly. This was great because I could visit my grandmother alone. I went to her room, where two single beds, with a curtain separating them were arranged. She was asleep, resting on the bed nearest the window.

"Grandma!" I called out to her, breaking the silence of the room.

She sat up, looked to me, and immediately said, “Give me a kiss!” ...

Great family camping weekend of campfires (i think we must have burned the equivalent of a small forest), frisbee, swimming, volleyball, canoeing, hiking. And the main event of the weekend: eating.

Some of us camped over night (me, Matt, Anice, Piyali, Calvin, Aunty Ivy ...

... town and no they do not have cell phone service or internet. It has been two days since I saw any bars on my cell phone and speaking of bars, they hide the liquor in Canada. If you know the code you can get in to a liquor store. It is LCBO. We are not living on sponge cake in Margaritaville; we are living on walleye sandwiches in Mosquitoville, and we are loving it! Randi

Then we made it to Barrie, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and ...

On our way to Sail the Element Quest to her new home in Canada, We were half way around Cape Cod only had a few more hours of sailing then we would have been clear to sail east to long island NewYork, but with the radio calling for heavy storm warning, we disided to loose the last day of sailing and turn backwrds from were we came to get shelter, of coarse before we truned around we got to see 3 pods of northern right whales. seeing whales in your own boat 1) makes you feel ...

... and in those 2 weeks I probably learned more about what I was capable of doing and wanting to do, and will to do. How much effort I was will to put into something, and I don't think my heart was truly in it at that time in my life.

I ended up spending the rest of the summer at home.

... building projects or renovations, craft ...

This was my first attempt at basic, I was pumped to be there, but the reason I was sent home, was because I had a panic attack while doing the shuttle run and couldn't get to level 4. Now that just totally bummed my summer, I ended up going back home, and was put to work on the farm. That so was not what I thought my summer was going to look like.