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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.

Second visit to Algonquin

On Monday this week we took a drive up to Algonquin Provincial Park. On the way there we came across a group of turkeys wandering across the road – our first wildlife sighting of the day.

We decided to go on Monday because according to the Fall Foliage Report the park was at its peak with full colour red and orange foliage.

We had a very uneventful journey there, very little traffic on the roads and great fall scenery. Stopped off in Bancroft for a Timmy’s and paid our $13 for a day pass to the park.

As we entered the park it became apparent that the foliage report was wrong. A lot of the park was still very green with a few clusters of red/orange areas. We were a little disappointed but it is still a beautiful place.

The weather was nice with temps around 25C, but it was cloudy. Did I mention the temps – bearing in mind it was the 1st October?

We did a few of the trails and walked quite a few km’s. The beaver lodges and dams were very evident.

Apart from five squirrels and one chipmunk we didn’t see any wildlife, which was disappointing as last time we were there in April we saw quite a lot including a moose.

When we got home in the evening we spotted a deer in our garden. We had not seen them about since around March when the weather started to improve.

So it turned out we saw turkeys on the way, deer at home but nothing in the park itself – typical.

By the way, here is that tree again.