Let our Long Weekend Begin!

Ontario gets to celebrate our Civic Holiday Long Weekend starting today! Not too sure about other Provinces, and what they celebrate, but it is going to be a hot one here!

 

It reached about 35 deg. C. here under the sun today, and you could do nothing! High humidity to boot... so we did not do a whole lot.

I had a bunch of errands to run this morning... Judy's bike we bought the other day, developed a very loud squeel in the front brake. I took it back to Canadian Tire, they looked at it, tried to fix it, could not, so they gave us the following choices... take another bike, or take our money back! Great customer service if you ask me! Canadian Tire did not used to be like that, from what I can remember! Good on them!

Other than that, not a lot on the go today, other than getting ready to take off for Sauble Beach tomorrow!

Till tomorrow...

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Back to London today...

Kristina had to go and visit an eye specialist today over in London, so I tagged along with her, as sometimes they do strange things to your eyes, and then you can't drive! As it turns out, it was a good thing I did go, as they put drops in her eyes and she had trouble with blurred vision, and they told her she could not drive home. Good news was, all was good with her eyes!

We made it home by lunch time, with Judy and Gwenny just having a heck of a time without us. Judy took Gwenny downtown to do some shopping. The Zellers store here in Woodstock is going to close soon, so they stopped by to check it out.

They have one of those nice Family Restaurants inside our Zellers, and as you can tell below, Gwenny was torn between ordering the Cheeseburger Deluxe, Filet Mignon, or the Fish and Chips! What a decision when you are only 1.

Judy reports she had trouble selecting, and decided to have a Gwenny cookie while she was deciding...

This afternoon, Kristina and Judy headed back downtown to have pedicures done! What a life! We are all going to travel this Civic Holiday Long Weekend, so they wanted the toes to be ready!

As they were off doing that, I was charged with being the care taker of Gwenny for the afternoon! After lunch, she goes down for an afternoon sleep, so I had to know how to use the Gwenny monitor!

I soon caught on to how babysitting works in this modern world, as I had the baby monitor set up, the TV remotes close at hand, the Olympics on... and the iPad to take pictures when required! Babysitting is easy! Judy and Kristina got home at 4:00 p.m. and Gwenny was still sleeping! How good am I at babysitting! Perfect!

This weekend Judy and I are off to spend the long weekend up in Sauble Beach with a bunch of good friends at Deb and Gerards cottage! We do this every year. Can't wait!

Quite a few comments from last night's blog about making sure the new bicycles are tied on tight behind the motorhome! Not to worry folks, they will not be mounted up on the motorhome. Other plans are in the works for that!

Till tomorrow...

 

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All gassed up and ready to go...

We had a very busy day yesterday, up to Orillia and back to visit Mom... we all enjoyed the trip! We got a free Jeep wash a couple of times, as we hit driving rain just north of Toronto on Hwy. 400!

 

Mom is turning a young 89 years in a couple of days, so we had a big celebration to enjoy!

It was such a nice afternoon, we decided to head down to Couchiching Park which is the main waterfront park in Orillia on Lake Couchiching. They just built a nice new kid's playground, so Gwenny had a ball.

 

Gwenny loved the slide. These new playgrounds all come with the fancy cork matts on the ground for soft landings!

 

This crazy couch and table swung back and forth... they had some neat new ideas in this park.

 

It seemed everything swung and swayed... kids all seemed to love it... even the big ones!

Gwenny loved this handle above, that you turned and all the gears turned with it!

Mom's restaurant of choice is Swiss Chalet, so off we went! We enjoyed and great chicken dinner, and some cake afterwards, that Gweeny really got into! Mom had a great time, as we all did, then we headed in some more rain, back to Woodstock! Happy Birthday Mom! (Thursday).

 

Some readers of this blog from a couple years ago, would remember a drive we took into Borego Springs, and we had my bicycle fall off the back of the RV from the bike rack, and end up going under the Jeep! Yes, it was ugly and something I don't really like to remember.

Today, we got back into the bicycle game again, with the purchase of two new CCM bicycles from Canadian Tire in Woodstock. Great machines, with all the new suspension on front and rear of the bike! These were $300 bikes, and CTC had them on for 50% off! Great ready for some new bike adventures!

Till tomorrow...

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