There was a TV ad playing in early spring, it showed an winter outdoor scene with falling snow etc for about 15 seconds, then flashed to about 1 second of a summer scene then back to winter again... the message? 'Summer goes by quickly so make the most of it and buy this'. Well there was truth in advertising there, summer is over and it wasn't around for long. To make the weather more miserable we were hit with the remnants of hurricaine Ernesto, a storm that had worked it's way up from the carribean, toyed with Florida and then blown itself out while moving up the US east coast. By the time Ernesto made it to Canada it was just a pile of rain, but the timing sucks as it's hit right in the middle of the last long weekend of the season. So we didn't make it to the airshow or a drive-in movie due to the weather, but hopefully we're not headed directly back into winter and autumn stays with us for a while before the temp drops.
Our friends from Pennsylvania, the Ballesty's, made a surprise, flying visit to see us last weekend. Jo got the call and kept mum about it so none of us knew they were coming which was really nice. On Saturday we headed down to Toronto to see the buskers festival and spent a great day in the streets near the St Lawrence Market, eating (mmm steak sandwich was awesome), drinking (coffee of course), walking and watching some decent street performances. The kids have a ball together, Erin, Elise, Liam and Declan are great kids and ours love them to death. We are hoping to head back down to PA in November for US Thanksgiving, looking forward to it already.
I spent four days last week in Montreal again and I think I'll be back up there again in late September to run a couple of days of intensive training for the Bell folks before we go live in October with our biggest release. We should hear in the next week or so how long we'll be staying on for. Could be just until Jan or might be extended into Spring next year, as soon as we know you will too.
Just posted a heap of
new photos including some from a great walk we had yesterday along 16 Mile Creek, just a stones throw from our house.
So that's about it, the kids are having a mellow day today, back to school tomorrow (was that Jo I heard going 'Wooohooo!'?). They wont be back for too long though, as we have a trip to Boston, New England and Atlantic Canada planned for the second week of October and will be taking them out of school for that.
Andy, out.
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