Category: Life in General

On December 9th, we awoke to a wonderful blanket of white snow covering everything. It has been a long time coming, but when it did arrive it made everything look wonderful. Then reality set in and Rosie got out the snow shovel to dig out the driveway before taking Liam to school in the car. […]

The beginning of November saw lovely sunshine and clear skies so we decided to take a trip back to Port Credit for lunch at Snug Harbour. We really like the restaurant there since it had nice views of boats on the water and people doing lots of interesting activities.  To build up an appetite, we […]

As everyone knows, it is Liam’s birthday in October and he is so accustomed to having a large group of friends over that he wasn’t coping very well when we restricted him to just two. We planned to go to the movies, but when there weren’t any appropriate ones, we changed the plan and let […]

Bruce went back to work on the 1st September and after a shaky first day, everything has slipped back into routine again. He has a double of classes this semester so his preparation will hopefully be reduced a bit. It was an interesting week with school going from Tuesday to Thursday. Friday was off and […]

One of the reasons we reversed the direction of our holiday was so that we could possibly link up with some old friends in Renfrew, just out of Ottawa. Bruce taught with Janet in Campbell River, BC back in 1991 and has kept up contact ever since. Tom and Janet visited Margaret River in 1992 […]

After Fort Louisbourg, we drove across Nova Scotia to catch the ferry to Prince Edward Island. We drove for four hours and just made it with 10 minutes to spare for the 12:30pm ferry.  There are two ways to get onto PEI. You can either catch the ferry or drive across the Confederation Bridge (a […]

After Boston we drove up the East Coast passing by many fishing villages and lobster towns. We also visited the first of the many lighthouses that we were going to see. This lighthouse was situated at the end of a 300m groin made out of huge granite blocks. Very impressive since it was made in […]

The official holidays started on 26th June, but Bruce had the previous few days student free so he was pretty relaxed. We decided to stay around Mississauga for Canada Day and then head off on our big trip. We went down to Port Credit (on Lake Ontario) for the afternoon entertainment there and were a […]

June is going to be a month of relaxing, seeing a bit of Mississuaga, planning the Summer holiday and finishing off the school year. We started the month by visiting Wonderland again and this time Liam had a much better time. We arrived early and Rosie and Liam went straight onto the Vortex, which they […]

We returned to Toronto in the first weekend of May to visit the CN Tower. As before, we drove to the Kipling Subway station and caught the subway in to Toronto. This was all very easy. We then took a short walk from Union Station into the entertainment district where, similar to Melbourne, they have […]