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Still haven’t made plans for our summer vacation

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Chris and I still need to plan some kind of vacation this summer. He hasn’t even booked any time off yet but at this point it looks like he’ll be off for either the first two weeks or August or the second and third week. He’s still waiting for a co-worker to decide on her vacation time … geesh!

I have a feeling that with the price of gas this year we won’t be taking a long driving trip, but you never know, maybe we’ll end up driving to Chicago again this summer. We did that two years ago when we went to visit Chris’ brother and we had a great time. I loved Chicago. Of course if we go out of the country I’ll get travel insurance at least for me since I have a chronic illness. I can’t take a risk that my Crohn’s won’t flare up while I’m away and I’d hate to end up paying huge hospital bills in the US.

Hmmm the other idea I had for a vacation was to perhaps rent a cabin somewhere near a lake. Yes I know all the good ones are probably booked by now, but I might be able to find something.

What are you doing for your summer vacation?





Terrible weather in Toronto

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Since last Friday we’ve had some pretty bad weather here in Toronto. Severe thunder storms with winds that knocked down trees, super heavy rain and more!

The other day … I think it was Monday we even had hail!

I grabbed my camera as soon as I realized it was hailing, but the rain was coming down so hard that the hail melted in my area before I could take a picture of the grape size hail!

Even this photo doesn’t really show how hard it rained that day. I believe there was still a little bit of hail coming down while I took the picture:

Heavy Rain - Toronto

Apparently some areas of Toronto had worse hail than we did. A lot of cars were dented! The news said we should look for “hail” sales at dealerships in about a month!

It’s been so cold too! I turned our furnace back on, although it hasn’t been quite cold enough for it to turn on … so we’ve been sitting in our house with sweaters or blankets covering us. Hard to believe that it will be summer in about 27 hours! If feels more like autumn around here.

Foiled by the weather

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It rained yesterday and into the evening. Our plans ended up being foiled … yes … ruined.

Do you remember that I mentioned we were supposed to get together with friends on Sunday evening for some fireworks to celebrate our Victoria day weekend? Uh huh …. well that didn’t work out.

I’m a trooper though. I really thought we’d still go out even though it was lightly drizzling. I got dressed up to go out for dinner with our friends – designer jewelry and all, and then, when our dinner was finished and we were about to go to the fireworks it started to pour outside!

Fireworks get canceled when it rains so hard that the rain drops are bouncing off the pavement.

Oh well … we still have a chance to go to see fireworks this evening. We might watch them from the beach if it’s nice enough out.

It’s the May 24 weekend already!

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I didn’t realize until yesterday that this weekend is our famous May 24 weekend here in Canada. I have no idea why we are having our Victoria Day weekend so early. Very odd. I think the long weekend should be the following weekend, but I guess not this year.

Anyway, now that I’m up to date as to which weekend is our long weekend I now realize we have a few party invitations that we have to decide whether to accept or not.

Some old friends of ours are having an outdoor barbecue and party on Saturday night. I’m pretty sure we’ll go to that, but I’m not sure we’ll make it to another friends Sunday brunch if we go to the party on Saturday night!

On both Sunday and Monday evening we’ve been invited to join a few friends to watch the fireworks at two different areas in the city. Monday nights will be the most spectacular as the ones we’ll go to see are the Cities Victoria Day Fireworks at Ashbridges Bay.

Perhaps we’ll do what we did a few years ago to avoid the crowds. We went to the boardwalk on the beach with our folding lounge chairs and sat on the beach rather than going right to Ashbridges Bay park. It was much nicer to do it that way. Of course if it’s cold out it might be better to be in the crowd rather than sitting on a cold windy beach.

Any other Canadians planning on attending Victoria Day celebrations?

Spring in Toronto

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I took this photo a few years ago, but this is what Toronto looks like right now. Well, ok the leaves on the trees are almost fully filled out right now, but it’s close to how it looks. Ok? 🙂

This photo was taken as we drove along LakeShore Blvd. There’s a clear view of Lake Ontario.

This is a popular area for anyone who loves the outdoors, getting fit or walking their pets. Chris and I have gone to the beach to walk along the boardwalk with our puppy Midnight a few times already this year. We’re hoping to make it a regular weekend outing.

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