I've been AWOL for a few days and have a bit of catching up to do. First off, happy birthday greetings to Rowan, who turns an ancient 5 today. Awesome!
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On Wednesday, Mother Nature finally let me cut the grass. Still wet in spots but no damage done.
I cut grass for three hours and spent another two completing three small projects. Now I can leave with a clear conscience.
Thursday morning was golf time. My driver is starting to cooperate - I hit 10 of 13 fairways and just missed one of the others by a couple of inches. Now, if I could only remember how to hit my irons.
Thursday afternoon we had a visit from Mardi's gentle giant grandson Ethan.
He's just a few months away from completing his university courses and has just about completed 11 weeks of basic training. Well on his way to being one of Canada's protectors.And then, on Friday Mardi and I headed to Port Colborne for our second theatre experience of the week (the first one was in Port Dover with Bonnie and Steve). "Secret Service" was a marvelous play, brilliantly written by the playwright, and hilariously performed by the four actors, whose facial expressions were incredible. Most enjoyable play I've seen in years!
So, that brings us to Saturday. We left Stoney Creek at about 9:15, and took a side trip along the 1,000 Island Parkway. These are two of the 1,000 islands.
Arrived in Ottawa just after 3 p.m. and headed to the girls' apartment for card games and dinner. Kathryn was visiting as well so I got to see all three. But it was disappointing - I came last in the card game. Fathers are supposed to be treated better than that! Especially really old ones.Yesterday morning, Yancy dropped by our hotel with the birthday girl for a nice visit. Rowan brought her new friend Abigail with her. But Rowan's very shy around me and it was difficult to get a picture.
Then we headed to Edmonston, N.B. A very scenic trip through farmland and hilly, wooded areas. Had an interesting experience in the afternoon. We wended our way through the mountains and when the road turned left we encountered torrential rains. When it turned back to the right we saw part of a rainbow. And this repeated itself several times as we progressed.
Arrived in Edmonston and looked for #54 East 31st and the next part was a second best to our Nap And Nibble story with Ed and Rose.
There was a #52 and a #56, but no #54. Had we been scammed? Mardi checked with the neighbour who informed her that the owner had created 4 - 1 bedroom suites and 54 and 54B were at the back of the house.
Then, we couldn't make the door code work. Finally, had to contact the owner who drove over to help us. Even he had trouble but eventually figured it out. Enter the code, turn the knob LEFT at the first beep (subsequent beeps don't work) and push hard.
We thanked him and asked where a good place to eat would be. He suggested Da Lulia and then told us that he owned it and we should tell the waitress that Dan wants her to give us a 10% discount.
So that's where we went.
We told the waitress about the discount but apparently she didn't believe us. Full charge. When we complained she went away and the next thing we know Dan has arrived. He reversed the bill and gave us a 20% discount on its replacement to make up for the problem. And finally, we got back to our rooms and neither TV worked. An experience we will remember!
Today we're heading for Hopewell Cape, N.B.
Stay well.
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