It's great to have visitors from home, lucky for them they didn't 'get any on them' when our whole family (me excluded) started puking everywhere. Seriously, Jasmine got a stomach bug on Thursday and had Friday home from school. Then over the weekend Jo, Abbie and Cam picked up where Jazz left off.
On Friday the boys from work and I took an early day and headed off down to North York where a pub was showing the India Sri Lanka world cup match live. After the game, and Shyam almost getting beaten up by some irate Indian fans (well maybe not, they were pretty drunk, would have been lucky to hit the ground), I headed off to the airport to pick up the Reeves (Anth, Shane and 18 mo Josh) who were arriving from Melbourne to stay with us. Overnight Jo caught the bug and by lunchtime Abs had copped a dose herself. Our guests had picked a great time to roll up, by the evening Cam was down for the count too.
This was a pretty nasty one, really opening up the sluice gates at both ends [insert appropriate mental image]. Lucky for me my afternoon diet of beer, while watching Australia vs South Africa, appeared to keep the nasty bug at bay and I spent the day running the healthy kids to birthday parties and chuck-bowls to the rest of the family. Sunday had Jo and the kids if not out for the count then certainly still down so I drove Anth, Shane and Josh into Toronto and we hit the Eaton Center for some shopping. Sadly the poor weather prevented them from seeing the CN Tower, it's main deck hidden in the thick low cloud.
Yesterday our guests departed for a jaunt 'up the lake' to Ottawa, Montreal and perhaps Quebec City (dependent on how Josh likes/hates the 1600km round trip). At least they're away from our house of doom and don't appear to have caught anything from us while they were here. We'll see them at the end of the week, hopefully play some golf on the weekend and head over the border to the US for some bargain shopping at a massive factory outlet complex in New York state.
As I write this the Aussies have finished their innings against the West Indies and have posted a very nice 323/6 (Hayden slogging 158 with an SR of 110). I'm hoping to gte outa work shortly, get home and watch the 2nd innings, go aussies.
Andy, out.
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