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They’re here…

Well on Monday we went to the airport in Toronto to pick up my aunt and uncle. Fortunately the weather was great and the journey uneventful. We got there as their plane was due to land and only had to wait about 20 mins for them to come through arrivals. After greetings etc we loaded their luggage into the truck and made our way home stopping off in Port Hope for a Tim Horton’s – well you have to get visitors into the swing of things as soon as possible don’t you? We got home and showed them around the house, chatted for a hour or so and then they went to bed shattered.

Yesterday was out first full day together and they got up really early as they were still on European time. We spent the morning catching up on thing and then later took them into Belleville to show them the sights. We took them to the mall and Chapters book shop which they were really impressed with. We toured the city and went across the bridge to The County and went along Rednersville Road where there are some really nice waterfront properties.

We went shopping and they were very impressed with the choice and price of food available. $200 of food shopping later we went home and my uncle cooked us a meal. I know you are all thinking, poor man, he comes here on holiday and has to cook a meal. But he loves cooking and is very good at it so is doing us all a favour – honest!

Every night we get deer in our garden and we had told them about this. So, with video camera set we waited for them to come – but no, the deer decided that last night was going to be their night off – making liars of us, typical!

The evening was spend watching telly and chatting, but soon the jet lag was catching up and they went to bed.

Today we went to Presqu’ile Provincial Park in Brighton. Trouble was many of the trails were flooded and inaccessible, but we still managed to visit a lot of the places and the lighthouse etc. They were amazed that Lake Ontario was so vast and looked to all intense and purposes like the sea. The weather was great and temps up to 16C so they haven’t got frostbite yet!

Tomorrow we are going up to 1000 Islands and Charleston Lake which should be really nice.

Back to Canada

On Saturday, we started our journey back from New York at about 10am as the girls wanted a lie-in. On the way home we stopped off at Orange County Choppers who feature on a TV programme called American Chopper, which we like to watch. As it happened whilst we were there, the owner, Paul Snr was signing autographs. We did not bother getting an autograph, but took a few pictures. The trouble was there was a long queue in the shop, so you could not see many of the custom bikes they had made as they were on the other side of the queue.

Paul Snr

After half hour there, hubby purchased a couple of t-shirts and we were on our way again. We stopped off once to get some food and got to the border crossing at around 6pm. We went through the border very quickly and easily as the girls had already been through immigration when they landed at Pearson and we are residents.

We stopped off at Kingston to have some dinner then got home, unpacked, watched some TV and went to bed.

Yesterday, Sunday, I did some housework, then we dropped the girls off at Quinte Mall (yes again). They still had some money left and wanted to spend it before they leave on Tuesday. Hubby and I went grocery shopping picked up a few other bits then went back home. The girls eventually phoned at 5pm to say they were ready to come home so I went to pick them up. On the way home we stopped at Blockbusters so they could get a DVD and then home. Had dinner and then hubby and I watched four episodes of 24, which we are desperately trying to catch up with.

We will go out for a final meal tonight and then take them back to Toronto tomorrow. We dare not look at our bank account as we have spent a fortune since they arrived.