Daphne"s Camp

For 4 years Daphne has participated in a camp at the Agricultural Museum. This year Daphne got her own calf to care for, as the main focus of her camp.

This is Goober, Daphne's calf.

She also got to stay late one day and help with the milking.

We highly recommend the camps at the Agricultural Museum.

Team G comes for a visit

 Well not all of Team G, (Team Georganas) came to the cottage but Molly & Stella did.

 We swam, we tubed, we toured the lake, we roasted marshmallows,

Paulie setting out a swimming challenge

and we kayaked.

So this has been summer so far...

It has rained a lot this June and July.  We have had some great thunderstorms! And we were even able to see some rainbows.

So because of the string of storms on and off almost everyday, are motto has been "don't cancel, just do it!"

We have faired out pretty well. We have done Calypso in the rain (you are already wet!), cottaging (yep... That's a Canadian original word), gardened, biked, travelled ............

We are sweet but not made of sugar so we are just going to do it! 

What a whirlwind, but so much fun!

So for our one day trip to TO I had no actual tickets!  This is somewhat new to me (perhaps showing my age:) all tickets for the train, the CN Tower and the aquarium were on my phone.  Was a little worried that at the end of the day the battery was getting low and I did not bring a charger (could have charged it on the train) so photos were taken less to conserve battery life. We had such a great day and we even had time for cruise around the Toronto Harbour to see the Toronto Islands. Here are some photos from our whirlwind visit to Toronto:

On the train for 5:55AM. Biked over from our house and guess who forgot her tea in her bottle holder on her bike?

Going through security at CN Tower after arriving at 10AM in Toronto.  We could not have timed it better! Later, when we left, the line up was HUGE to get in.  People would have been waiting at least 2hrs to get to the elevator to go up.

Views from the Lookout Level

Looking out from the Skypod Level (447m above Toronto)

The glass floor and our next destination

Ripley's Aquarium (Sharks done in tiles on the roof, come on that's fun).

But first a lunch break @Boston Pizza

Highly recommend Ripley's Aquarium.  If you do go, pre-book your visit.  Like the CN Tower there was a line up out the door. With a predetermine time the line up was minimal and moved quickly.  Our favourite parts of the aquarium were the octopus, the jelly fish section, the shrimp (Daphne's favourite: you can touch them, they crawl on your hand), the moving sidewalk which has sharks, a sea turtle and  a fantastic collection of fish swimming all around and above you.

This was the view from our boat during the harbour cruise. Yes that is that giant rubber duck in the harbour again.  It was part of our Canada 150 celebration. More info about Da Duck here.

We arrived back to Barrhaven a little after 11PM.  The train was a little late but we grabbed our bikes and got home, tired but a giant pocket full of memories, including the grumpy lady on the train.

Oh and my tea was cold:(