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The girls were at Grandma's and Papa's place for a couple of days during March Break. They went to see Alice in Wonderland with Grandma while they were there.
Angela relaxing on Grandma's couch.
Gillian was able to hook into one of Grandma's neighbours wireless signal.
We headed down to Port Cedit to walk around. Susan wanted to go shopping at a store down there so she dropped the girls and I off.
The girls and Chloe enjoyed the swans.
Chloe was okay with the swans and ducks, it was the sea gulls hanging around that Chloe was after.
I think Angela was taking a picture of the Toronto skyline.
Claudia brought her bike to ride around and Angela had her roller blades.
There was a guy feeding the swans and ducks some bread, actually he had a loaf of bread. He offered Claudia and Angela a slice, to feed the birds, not eat as Claudia would tell you.
Angela was trying to feed a dirty looking swan and manage to land the piece of bread on its back. We thought all the other birds would attack it, but it wasn't until one tried that the swan shook it off into the water.
Some of the fish painted on the bridge supports.
The lighthouse down in Port Credit.
Not sure if Gillian was pushing or trying to hitch a ride.
Claudia was over at the Canada post.
Gillian trying to keep up with Chloe.
We had a good day, the weather couldn't have been better.
It's the start of birthday week for Angela and the end for G-ma and G-pa. We headed out to Scarborough for dinner and cake. First up was Grandma's cake.
Then Grandpa's cake.
Emi having a good laugh.
And finally Angela's cake.
Chloe liked looking out Grandma's window.
It was a sad day for the girls and Chloe. Our long time caregiver to both the girls and Chloe was packing up their rental truck on Saturday morning. Karen has been looking after the girls since Claudia was 6 months old, Claudia turns ten in a couple of months. Karen has been coming over to let Chloe out in the mornings since last September, on some days Chloe would go over to her house for the day. Chloe will miss her buddy Hailey who she would bug when she was there.
Who are we going to get our renovation ideas from. Karen and Ken have the same style house as us, and when they would change something, we could picture our house looking the same, kind of like having our own model home.They are moving to Milton, so they won't be that far away. Thanks to Karen, Ken, Stephanie and Ryan for all their help over the years.
The day has finally arrived, after a countdown for the last month, Angela was up early this morning.
This is cake number two, number three will come on the weekend when she has a couple of friends over from guides.
This week I was out near Chatsworth for work, we are installing a new monitoring site at the Kinghurst Nature Reserve.
On the way back I went through Markdale, home of Chapman's Ice Cream. Last fall they suffered a fire which destroyed their main production plant. Here's what's the Chapman's plant looked like in July 2007 when we went to the Markdale Ice Cream Festival.
This is what's left of it.
They are building a new plant in Markdale, currently they have a temporary mini-plant operating. So far we haven't had any problems getting ice cream at our local Superstore. They had a good supply in their distribution centre before the fire to carry them through until they started the mini-plant.
This picture is from their website. Imagines rows and rows of ice cream.
Did you participate in Earth Hour?
Here's how we spent our hour.
Angela had a couple of friends over from Guides for a sleepover. We actually had the cake before 8:30 pm and they were done before we turned the lights off. I think they played hide n seek in the dark for the hour. There were no bumps or bruises, so I guess it went well.
I was down in State College, Pennsylvania this week for work. University Park is an unincorporated community that sits within the borough of State College. Most of Penn State University is in University Park.
We have a monitoring site at Penn State University. I'm suppose to go down twice a year to inspect the site, but usually my schedule only allows for one trip. The site itself is about 7 miles out of town on Pennsylvania Game Commision land. A couple of miles from the site is a shooting range, I drove by it this time, and it's just bizarre seeing this shooting range with targets set up and people firing their handguns.
State College is the main campus for Penn State. Beaver Stadium is home to the Big Ten Conference Nittany Lions.
This was my ride down. With the government logos on the side of the car and my government passport, it makes for easier border crossings.
But it doesn't make the lines any shorter.
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