Finally I get the thunder storms and lightning but alas it’s only 1am!!! Yep and it had the diesired effect, it woke me up and the kids. Well who needed sleep anyway.
So up we got at a bright and early 5:30am so we could get ourselves organised to be ready for the taxi and a [...]
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Niagara Falls weather had improved the previous afternoon, so by Thursday it was hot and humid again. We made a quick shopping stop in town (Clare’s Harley Davidsons shop and the Mounties giftshop), then back on the road for a smooth ride back to Toronto. That is, until just before the Don Valley Parkway when [...]
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Tuesday arrived and chaos struck. Trish was still suffering from The Bot and the marriage license was yet to be picked up. We seemed to be running around in circles but fortunately Murray (who was also suffering from The Bot) drove us all into Scarborough to collect the license and do some last minute shopping.
Scarborough, [...]
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Our host Murray had been struck down by the Bot, and Trish was the next victim. So the girls were in no condition to go anywhere. We decided to meet them in town on Monday around 4pm for the suit fitting, and we headed off to the Toronto Zoo.
The zoo grounds were enormous – lots [...]
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The suburb of Scarborough has lots of squirrels that would have come inside the house if the door had been left open. We spent a lot of time watching to see where they would go and what antics they would get up to.
We headed off to downtown Toronto on Sunday afternoon on the double decker [...]
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On Saturday 5th, Shelley’s daughter Kindred and her Cairn Terrier puppy Poppy arrived, so we had some new lively entertainment to occupy us in the morning. Shelley, Beth, Kindred, Pam and I visited the market in downtown Owen Sound and then headed off to Sauble Beach which is on the shores of Lake Huron, about [...]
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Sunday we were up early to find a supermarket. We caught a streetcar, subway and streetcar to go not that far away (we were told supermarkets were only in the ‘burbs). Having done our shopping and some food for lunch, we were off on the streetcars and subway back to Church St to get a [...]
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Saturday our flight was delayed from St John half an hour due to thunder strikes in Ontario. A teary farewell to Ellen at the airport (lucky Phyllis was there so she wasn’t alone) and we were off on our next leg of the trip.
Despite the thunder in Ontario, we completely missed it and landed safely [...]
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