Busy Sunday…

Turned out to be another beautiful day here in Woodstock, although there is a bite of fall in the air these days… kind of nice!

This morning was spent taking life a little on the easy side, as Judy slept in due to the fact she was up all night on Friday taking care of Gwenny.  The reason she did this, is due to the fact we all had a wedding to go to on Saturday, and that is why I was unable to complete a blog… just too busy!

Some necessary cleaning and laundry was completed this morning, and then came a big surprise!

Doug, from Titanium travelers dropped by to say hello out of the Blue.   Doug and his Wife, were travelling back to southern Ontario after a trip up north in their Titanium 5th Wheel Trailer and decided to check out this RV Park. Doug told us he has followed our blog for a year or so now, but is now quite a member of the “cult” just yet.  Doug has been retired for a couple years now, and is hoping his Wife will follow soon so the travels can begin!  We talked about the usual RV type stuff, and discussed future travel plans.  Great to meet you today Doug, and happy travels!

So we did attend a wedding on Saturday, it was for Kevin and Ramona.  Kevin is the brother of Kristina’s Husband, Chris.  Ramona is from Germany, her and Kevin met in Holland a couple of years ago on student exchanges… yes, anything can happen on those!

They had a Wedding Ceremony in Germany, back in March and then held this one for Canadian friends and Family.

Kristina was asked to sing at the Ceremony, and did a fantastic job.  Here she is singing below, accompanied on the guitar by her Father in Law, David Broad. 

A nice dinner and reception was held at the Ingersol Golf and Country Club, on a beautiful afternoon.  Below is Kevin and Ramona on the left, with Chris holding little Gwenny beside Kristina, and Kathleen, who is a sister to Kevin and Chris.

Judy and I kept close eye over Gwenny, who was all decked out for the event. 

Just a great wedding, and we wish the best for Kevin and Ramona. 

Judy still has one humming bird enjoying our feeder at the RV.

This afternoon, we were looking for some exercise, so we decided to check out the trail just up the road from our Park.  It is sponsored by the local Rotary Club, and the City of Woodstock.

Check out this warm up machine they installed… Judy is giving it a demo for us…

She was almost worn out before we started the hike!  Great work out!

A nice wide trail, gravelled all the way.  Good job on building it!

You get to hike right along the Pittock River.

All the bridges get you across the low lying areas along the way.

This is a black maple tree below, just maybe a bit scary at night time… it needs a haunted house to go with it!

After we finished, we went over to the paved portion of the trail system, and I took my roller blades for a spin.  Just a great day!

Phew, just another busy day!

Till tomorrow…

Yes, it is that time of the year…

A lot of the smaller rural communities in Ontario put on annual Fall Fairs.  Today is Woodstock’s turn.

Judy and I had been so busy travelling here and there and everywhere, over the past couple months, we felt it was time to do something in Woodstock.

These fairs have a little bit of everything in them, we started at one end, and they had a small livestock presentation… here is a prize winning calf.

They had wagon rides around the grounds for the big kids as well as the little ones… later we heard this wagon and it’s horses got loose, without the driver and caused a bit of excitement at the fair…

They had a few mid sized tractors on display.

Now here was something cool… for $5.00 you could climb in the back of this Chev Camino and go for a real monster truck ride!

No, you didn’t get to jump over any cars or anything crazy like that, but all the kids seemed to really like it! 

They had a big photo contest on, with 4 large panels of pictures, most were real good.

It would not be a fair without the mid-way of course… kids were whipping down this slide thing…

They had this motorcycle ride, but I held back from getting on it!

You could get sick real easy riding this thing… it was crazy…

The spaceship ride below spun like a wringer washer does… it was huge in size.

And it would not be a fair without one of these…

I hadn’t come across one of these bell ringing things for quite a while… the guy operating it had to show everyone that you could actually ring the bell and he did!

I enjoyed watching this farrier the most.  He was making horseshoes from a straight piece of metal… he was good.

He had this little 65,000 BTU blast furnace on the back of his truck, powered by propane.

We found another building with more livestock that you could pet…

If you were hungry, there was fresh eggs…

It was not the biggest or the best fall fair we have gone to see, that is for sure, but we enjoyed going none the less on a beautiful afternoon in Woodstock. 

Till tomorrow…

A trip to Cameron Lake…

Oooppsss… missed the blog last night… too busy to be blogging again… the storey of our life lately!

On Wednesday, we headed out first thing in the morning in the Jeep to Bracebridge, had to visit my Cardiologist again.  Remember I had to have my thyroid tested… got the results back.  All is good, other than one little spot at the top of my thyroid that they could not see properly, so now it is off for an ultra sound on my thyroid… why not.

After leaving Bracebridge, we headed to Cameron Lake, over near Lindsay, Ontario.  Our friends, Guy and Ruth invited us and a few others in a very select group for dinner and the evening. 

The cottage is very nice, with a great location on the west shore of Lake Cameron.

Guy was all over the steak on the BBQ thing…

The lower level of the cottage provided somewhere to eat for us all…

Relaxing after dinner… lake is like glass…

The big occasion for the get together, was to help Guy and Ruth celebrate 50 years of married bliss! 

Congratulations!

This is our select little group, at least one person from each couple, worked for Victoria and Grey Trust.  Judy and I both worked for them at one time.  So you have a bunch of bankers, and guess what we all talk about… your right!

Great views from the cottage, and this lone duck came in looking for something to eat.

Ruth got to feeding the ducks over the two weeks that they had the cottage rented for, and before you know it, she had the whole flock…

Ariel view from the second floor taken by Judy… we had a big fire in the fire pit you see last night, as well as sat out for hours watching the lightening from the big storm that hit Ontario yesterday, what a light show it was!  At the peak of the storm, there was 1,000 lightening hits every 2 minutes during the peak of the storm.

This is the only sort of view of the cottage we have, it was a nice one, with 3 bedrooms and a garage with a bunkie.

Made it back home today to Woodstock, and had another great day enjoying the waters of Ontario.  You can take a boat from the cottage and go through what is called the Trent Waterway, (boat locks) and get to Lake Ontario, or north up to Lake Simcoe.  Simply a great location.

Till tomorrow…