I’m drinking lots of coffee, much more than I used to... Jo and I are a bit addicted to Tim Hortons coffee. And of course it wouldn’t be coffee without a donut, now which one to have... the Honey Kruller? Maybe a Boston Creme... oh bugger it I’ll get a Blueberry Jelly one. Don’t tell me how many calories it is, I just don’t want to know [puts fingers in ears and says “I can’t hear you” over and over]. Timmies, as it’s locally known, does have good coffee. Lattes are not on the menu here although they do have an English Toffee Cappuccino just in case your donut doesn’t have quite enough sugar in it (or on it :-)). While at Timmies the kids will usually push for us to buy a box of Tim Bits... I know it doesn’t sounds good but get past the name and you get a box full of 20 (or 40) donut holes in a mixture of flavours like cherry, strawberry jelly, honey, maple, glazed, chocolate, blueberry and the list goes on... it’s turning into a bit of a family favourite, but to be truthful about it it’s a once a week deal, I’ve not actually put on 20kg’s... yet. Jazz prefers a Boston Creme, Abs sets her sights on a strawberry jelly and Cam ends up with it all over his face and comes up grinning.
Yes there is a lot of fast food over here but unlike home where there’s a Macca’s on every corner here there’s more variety. Harvey’s has outstanding burgers and onion rings, Licks would probably place second on my best burgers-list with Wendys and Burger King bringing up the rear, haven’t been to Dairy Queen yet...[mental note to self - go to Dairy Queen to continue research]. Sadly, although it’s the home of Pizza Hut and pizza appears to be a Canadian favourite, we’ve yet to actually have a pizza that we’ve really enjoyed... naturally we’ll keep trying.
We’ve sign up for whole family in skating lessons. After buying ourselves some 2nd hand skates last weekend (for about $30 a pair) we hit a local rink for a free skate on Sunday afternoon. The girls did a great job, we think that the small amount of roller blading that they did back home set them up nicely. Jo was a little less certain on her feet and Cam was completely lost of course, poor little guy. Jo and I didn’t really have a chance to get our feet and we had to hold onto poor Cam while he vainly tried to move by pushing his feet back and forth (of course not moving at all). So we took it in turns to handle Cam and did get him to hang onto a couple of witches hats that were provided for the kids in a roped off area, but he didn’t really enjoy himself so off came his skates after about 30 minutes and he played in the stand while we kept skating. I didn’t have too bad a time of it, but of course did well enough to get completely cocky and fell on my butt heaps of times. So lessons look like a good idea. The season actually started 5 weeks ago but we can join in late with lessons continuing right through until March (15 more weeks). The girls go on at 16:50 and Cam and us (in separate classes) go on an hour later, so I’ve arranged to get off work early every Monday so we can make it in time (still only got one car). Hopefully we’ll pick up some skills and start to really enjoy ourselves.
Some of our new local friends have told us that there’s skiing only 20 minutes drive away. It’s not double-black-diamond runs but will be more than enough for us given that other than Jo none of us have downhill ski’ed before. So as soon as we get a decent dump we’ll head off to Glen Eden for some ‘bunny-hill’ action, next stop Banff and Whistler I’m sure. And it’s not far away, we had snow flurries during yesterday and this morning woke up for find about 1cm of snow covering everything, xnlt! It’s 1 degree outside though... brrrrr! And that’s just the start of it...
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