Toronto Zoo

I wanted to take a walk in the woods to see the fall leaves a few weeks ago and couldn't quite figure out which forest to go too, in the end I drove to the Toronto zoo with a dear friend and we had a great time.

Second Life Photo

I just had to take a shot of me sitting in the lap of a giant bunny.

What I did for Summer Vacation.

I took a couple of weeks this summer which I haven't done for a while now. This year I did a little camping earlier in the summer and then in August I took a week as well. Some how I managed to schedule this August week just before my sister's Jack and Jill party. So my week off turned into me working at my mom's house 7:30am until 9pm almost every day.

I went back to work for a break from it all.

I did manage however, to get a few walks in on my own. I took a trip around the downtown park one morning and had a lovely walk around there. The town has really taken some pride into creating and making this park accessible to all.

I also found a new friend on the path at the park that has been following me on my journies and loves to have his picture taken.

I then took one day to myself where I went and visited the Wye Marsh near Midland. It's a very pretty place with lots of paths to walk around, bike trails, and many education programs. The weather was wonderful and the day turned out to be just that little bit of relaxation I needed. Little did I know my family was praying the whole time that I didnt' fall off my bike during the trip and break an arm before the wedding.

Labour Day - Last Long Weekend for the Summer

I was so happy when I came home on Wednesday last week to be asked if I wanted to go camping on the long weekend. Without a moment's hesitation - YES! What a great weekend it was too. The weather was incredible and this was one of the few hot, sunny weekends we've had all summer. It's been incredibly wet and a little colder than the last few summers.

After a mad week of being busy and scrambling to get packed, we loaded the truck with bikes, hitched the trailer on and off we went north. The traffic was incredible for a long weekend and a Friday night to boot. After a short 2.5 hour ride we were in north country. In the middle of the bush and loving it. The mornings were full of mosquitos (and the dusk was too), the days were hot and sunny (and full of naps and reading) and the nights were filled with more stars than I have seen in a long time and several shooting starts.

A perfect end to a pretty great summer over all.

Why I Love My Brother

Need I say any more. He's just got such a great sense of humour and will let his big sisters do just about anything to him. Here he is at his sister's wedding shower. He just had to be part of the festivities too.

Vacation with the Girls

This is one of the first summers in a very long time that I've taken a week vacation each month throughout the summer. The first week was to move into my new house. The second, which was 2 weeks ago I took my boyfriend's daughter camping along with a highschool friend and her 2 daughters. We had a great time camping and enjoying the outdoors.

Amazingly enough we managed not to get rained on during this incredibly wet summer here in Ontario. We got set up during what looked to be a really bad downpour. Instead it rained in the towns all around us. Then we packed up just in time before it rained to drive home.


We took a hike and found baby toads, salamanders, and really stunning dragon flies. There were beautiful mushrooms everywhere as well. We spent hours and hours at the beach swimming. It was everything we could do to get the kids out of the water.



We had such a great time we plan to do it again, but can't wait to give the kids the experience of backpacking and canoeing up into Algonquin. I haven't done that in years and really want to once again. I'm not as young as I once was, but I'm willing to go.

Saturday Night and Wandering Around Second Life

Well I had tonight to myself and played around in Second Life for a while. Tonight I saw came across some really neat stuff.

I sat went up a chairlift in The Weather Network sim. Wandered around a gorgeous park where I took a midnight photo by a waterfall. I watch a bit of an old Vincent Price movie in a theatre. Then I found a drive-in theatre and was able to see Vantage Point (unfortunately I did just rent it the other night).

How cool is it to be able to do all this?

I did have a car at the drive in, but the owner asked for unnecessary scripts to be dropped and I assumed she meant the extra cars. At one point I actually drove my car into the water behind the drivein. LOL. Sitting on the wall seemed safter.

Of course this all would have been more fun had I been wandering with a friend...lol. Let me know if you're in Second Life too and we can meet up for a chat.