My how time flies!
I'm down to a week of vacation, and Noah still has like... 3?! Not fair! Alas, paying the bills does sometimes have to involve doing things other than sitting around, tanning, and enjoying cold drinks. So I hear, anyway.
Last week was loverly. Hard to believe that we've been here so long! I would highly recommend long summer vacations.
When we got in last Friday, we moved in, visited, and passed out. Deb's getting a lot of work done on the cottage, and it looks great. She even found this really nice carpenter who is SUCH a hard worker, he spends the night so that he can get up early and keep working. Right Deb?
6 of our friends drove in to spend the weekend, arriving on Saturday and staying until Sun/Monday. It was awesome to see so many familiar faces; we had a lot of fun on the beach with some baseball and body surfing, plus lots of tanning and excellent wine thrown in for good measure. Katie and Eric had to leave Sunday evening, as Katie had to get back to the real world and "work"... a very sad evening. On Monday we took Pratik, Joe, Danielle, and Mark climbing in the Old Baldy Conservation area; the 5.8 that was in the book was definitely NOT a 5.8 by our standards! It was a cool climbing area, with pretty cool rock, but the route was also a lot newer than the more established TABVAR routes in Banff. Noah pulled off a rock about the size of his chest that could have done some serious damage if it hadn't been a controlled throw. 
Noah also had his first lead climb fall-- it was from right up below the anchor spot, so he didn't ground fall, but it was a long drop. He fell about 25 feet, and I was yanked about 6 feet up... yeesh! Mark and Pratik had to leave a bit early, but Danielle and Joe joined us for dinner afterwards, then had to head back to Toronto.
Noah and I stayed at Sauble Tues-Thurs around lunch, then drove down to Grand Bend to see Jim and Jan, where we enjoyed some gorgeous sunsets, a lovely bonfire, and excellent food and company. We went to a new pub in Bayfield and looked around their main street for awhile (Erin and Jessie, you would have bought the place out).
On Saturday we drove down to Detroit for Ryan and Christina's wedding. We made it to Jenni's house with just enough time for everyone to change, get all the dogs crated, and get to the ceremony. They looked gorgeous, and very happy; then Christina's family hosted a reception at a nearby backyard, and we made it back to Jim's house pretty late.
Sunday was devoted to figuring out when to leave based on when the wait time at the border crossing was the shortest. We wound up sticking around for most of the day, doing some shopping and having lunch with Jim and Jan at a nice little Italian place. When we did cross the border, around 7:30, there was no wait to get into Canada, which was awesome, but the line to get into the US was at least 4 miles long... ouch.
Now we're back at Sauble, and aren't planning on leaving until Noah has to drive me to Kitchener to catch my flight back to Alberta. We'll be doing a bit more climbing, and attending a few more wedding celebrations for Ryan and Christina up here... it's going to be a rough week, I can tell :-)
p.s-- Dad, they're not ratdogs!
Last week was loverly. Hard to believe that we've been here so long! I would highly recommend long summer vacations.
When we got in last Friday, we moved in, visited, and passed out. Deb's getting a lot of work done on the cottage, and it looks great. She even found this really nice carpenter who is SUCH a hard worker, he spends the night so that he can get up early and keep working. Right Deb?
6 of our friends drove in to spend the weekend, arriving on Saturday and staying until Sun/Monday. It was awesome to see so many familiar faces; we had a lot of fun on the beach with some baseball and body surfing, plus lots of tanning and excellent wine thrown in for good measure. Katie and Eric had to leave Sunday evening, as Katie had to get back to the real world and "work"... a very sad evening. On Monday we took Pratik, Joe, Danielle, and Mark climbing in the Old Baldy Conservation area; the 5.8 that was in the book was definitely NOT a 5.8 by our standards! It was a cool climbing area, with pretty cool rock, but the route was also a lot newer than the more established TABVAR routes in Banff. Noah pulled off a rock about the size of his chest that could have done some serious damage if it hadn't been a controlled throw. Noah also had his first lead climb fall-- it was from right up below the anchor spot, so he didn't ground fall, but it was a long drop. He fell about 25 feet, and I was yanked about 6 feet up... yeesh! Mark and Pratik had to leave a bit early, but Danielle and Joe joined us for dinner afterwards, then had to head back to Toronto.Noah and I stayed at Sauble Tues-Thurs around lunch, then drove down to Grand Bend to see Jim and Jan, where we enjoyed some gorgeous sunsets, a lovely bonfire, and excellent food and company. We went to a new pub in Bayfield and looked around their main street for awhile (Erin and Jessie, you would have bought the place out).On Saturday we drove down to Detroit for Ryan and Christina's wedding. We made it to Jenni's house with just enough time for everyone to change, get all the dogs crated, and get to the ceremony. They looked gorgeous, and very happy; then Christina's family hosted a reception at a nearby backyard, and we made it back to Jim's house pretty late.Sunday was devoted to figuring out when to leave based on when the wait time at the border crossing was the shortest. We wound up sticking around for most of the day, doing some shopping and having lunch with Jim and Jan at a nice little Italian place. When we did cross the border, around 7:30, there was no wait to get into Canada, which was awesome, but the line to get into the US was at least 4 miles long... ouch.Now we're back at Sauble, and aren't planning on leaving until Noah has to drive me to Kitchener to catch my flight back to Alberta. We'll be doing a bit more climbing, and attending a few more wedding celebrations for Ryan and Christina up here... it's going to be a rough week, I can tell :-)
p.s-- Dad, they're not ratdogs!
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