Canadian Experience

Our vacation to Canada started on Wed. July 23rd. And we had a great time!

What a way to top of the summer. We've been meaning to visit our good

friends', Tracy, Sean and their girls for some time now.

We arrived to rain but it soon cleared. On the way back from the airport we stopped in at a good Mexican restaurant and an Ice Cream place.

One of the things that we did each night was to all sit around and watch

Top Gear. It became a favorite for everyone except Shannon.

Thursday Tracy made wonderful blueberry pancakes for breakfast along with bacon & mango's. The guys then went off on their own, and us girls and Ben went Bowling. That night we went to go see "The Dark Knight" at the movies.

Friday was our first day on the lake. It was sea-dos and trying to water ski.

The weather was great. And Lake Simcoe is large and lovely.

Saturday was Niagara Falls. And what a tremendous time we had! David, Ben

and I took a double-decker boat to the bottom of the Falls. We then prowled around the little shops in town and ate dinner outside on a second

story porch of a cute little eatery.

Sunday we rode bikes and roller bladed down by the beach-side of Lake Simcoe. We had the best pizza for dinner.(Shannon was working at Boston Pizza- so we had to go and bug her there).

Monday was our last day on the lake. Ben broke the record for riding on the

two-seater float. We must of pulled him for 15 miles (almost all the way to

the beach-side town we had biked at on Sunday). We docked the boat and walked down the strand for his reward, which was a big ice

cream cone.

That night we had a late dinner at the Keg, a wonderful steak place.

Tuesday was our day to come back home. It all ended too quickly.

Our friends Sean, Tracy, Nicole and Shannon were so wonderful to us. And

we had such a great time. I think I'd like to do this every year.

SCORE!

Every once in a while looking through your neighbors trash is a good thing.

Here in the South, we call it "dumpster diving". And with dumpster diving you occasionally get a score.

Once when the boys were dumpster diving they came home with a battery

powered car. It was a large enough size to fit two small children. Of course

our boys put a car battery inside what used to have a hood and powered

several kids around the yard until the battery caught on fire. Later they took out the braking mechanism which aloud it to free glide down the

slope of the driveway and later the hill down the street. They didn't do it in until someone hooked it up behind a motorcycle and pulled it at speeds which it was never intended to go. We had that "score" for several years.

Today I went outside to find that Ben and a buddy had scored a go cart from

down the street. They fixed the linkage on it and spray painted it. And now

they are in the process of test driving it.

There's nothing like a score to make you feel lucky!

Magazine Cover

Well, Here it is... the long awaited for magazine cover. Now we can say for

the record that we have someone in the family that has international

notoriety, sort of.

This is a publication out of England. And we are starting to hear e-mails

from our friends from all over the country and more.

You'll have to stay tuned for the feature article that goes with it.