A quiet retreat at Niagara Falls

Note that the majority of these photos are taken on my bran-spankin’ new iPhone!!!
On December 29th we drove down to Niagara Falls for a couple of days of R&R (click here for photo album). We stopped off in Jordan to one of our favourite little shops Beauty Safari to pick up JTs favourite cologne. Then [...]

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Thanksgiving at Rosseau

We made our traditional trek up to my brother Gus’s cottage at Lake Rosseau. Last year JT went golfing, this year it snowed!

Sudden snow storm across the lake.

Of course, I am bundled up like a snowman, and the kids barely have a sweater on! It was quite chilly, no really!

A nice afternoon walk. No, we [...]

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Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival 2009

JT and I rode our bikes (20km each way mostly along bike paths along the Lakeshore) over to the Port Credit Blues and Jazz Festival yesterday afternoon. WOW. By far, the best free outdoor event EVER. I cannot say enough about it. There was a band about every 100 feet or so, they alternated so [...]

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Our 23rd Wedding Anniversary in the Big Apple

Last week we celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary in the Big Apple and it was lovely. We drove to Buffalo Tuesday morning and caught a very inexpensive flight to JFK ($270 Can for the two of us). The weather was amazing mid to high 20°C (which was a bit warm). We arrived on Tuesday May [...]

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We survived another Paul and T weekend!

I’ve been very bad blogging lately. We’ve been swamped at work and I guess I haven’t felt like spending any more time than I had to on my computer at home.
Check out the photos from our weekend away!
We drove down to Paul and T’s for the Easter Weekend. It was lovely. We rented another Camry [...]

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Valentine’s Weekend

JT surprised me with a getaway to Montréal; we left Friday morning and returned on Monday afternoon! What an amazing romantic mini-holiday!
We rented a Toyota Camry Hybrid…totally cool. It cost a total of $65 for gas all the way to Montréal and Back that’s 1,100 km or 782 miles round trip!

We had an amazing time. [...]

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Countdown to Doran Weekend December 2008

Countdown Clock
The Doran’s are coming, the Doran’s are coming! It won’t be for New Year’s but then again, it’s better than nothing! Our crazy world-travelling friends are travelling to the big smoke, whirl-wind style as usual, arriving Friday around lunch-time and leaving Sunday around 7pm! We’re really looking forward to our ‘Doran Fix’
The menu:
Friday [...]

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Sterling Inn, Niagara Falls, Ontario

JT surprised me with a short weekend to Ontario’s wine country. We stayed at Sterling Inn (which I would recommend). The only draw-back would be that it is a bit out of the way with no view of the falls (we’ve stayed at most of the major towers and have had spectacular views of the [...]

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We survived another Doran weekend!

Thankfully, we survived with much celebration, laughter and camaraderie with our very best friends, the Dorans! JT and Paul played golf twice (the weather was amazing 20+ everyday!!!) and T and I shopped and shopped and shopped!
On Saturday, the boys piled into a van and drove to Soldiers Field in Chicago to watch a Bears [...]

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Nuit Blanche in Toronto

JT and I decided to head downtown to Nuit Blanche on Saturday night. It was wild! Apparently a million people showed up! The sidewalks were packed – it was so cool! We planned out trip to take in Zone A – too bad it’s on for only one night, it would have been fun to [...]

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