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I was down in Rochester, NY in October for the 9th Acid Rain Conference. It was a combination of meetings at the beginning of the week, followed by the conference.
It was held at the Rochester Riverside Conference Centre. There was a reception held at the George Eastman House on the Wednesday. We were able to tour the house and museum.
Angela and Claudia are starting their Guiding year again. This year they are both in Rangers, this is Angela’s final year and Claudia’s first. It will be an exciting year for them as they prepare and plan for their International trip to Germany and Switzerland in July 2016.
It was the final Blue Jays home game today and it was Fan Appreciation Weekend. They were giving Blue Jay hoodies to the first 20,000 fans. We made our usual trek down to the Rogers Centre to get in line. Claudia chowing down on our pre-game ritual hot dog.
We arrived at 9:30 am and the lines were already longer than usual. We were at Gate 4 and there might have been 200-300 people ahead of us.
We all got a hoodie and everybody entering was given a rally towel.
Today’s starter was Mark Buehrle.
He gave a up a triple on the first pitch of the game, and it was a collective, oh no, here we go again.
Josh Donaldson.
Jose Bautista.
We were sitting in section 214 and with my big lens I was able to get some close-up shots.
Donaldson crossing the plate after Justin Smoak’s double.
Smoke with a lead-off of second.
Kevin Pillar.
Ryan Goins.
Some of the bench players watching the Jays fall behind 4-1.
Buehrle ended up going 6.0 innings, giving up 5 hits and 4 runs.
The Jays were able to tie the game in the eighth inning, which allowed Josh Donaldson to come to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, with 2 out and walk off home run to left field for the victory. Here he is in the red sunglasses coming to the plate.
It was a terrific finish to a good game.
Nobody left their seats for a good 10-15 minutes after he hit the home run.
Silver Elvis at his usual location just up the bridge from Batman.
The girls showing off their new Blue Jays hoodies.
And one with Chloe who wanted to get in the picture.
We headed down to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Friday with Angela and Claudia for the annual University Fair. When we got down there around 10:45 the line-up was pretty long. We managed to by-pass most of the line and got in quickly. Angela has narrowed down her options of which universities and programs that she is interested in. The next step is to visit some of the campuses over the next couple of months.
I was back on a plane on Wednesday afternoon, this time heading west to Edmonton. I had a final site inspection meeting with Public Works at our Joussard, AB site. It is about a 3.5 hour drive northwest of Edmonton. The weather was good for driving, mainly blue skies.
There was a standing pool of water that may become an issue. Based on the footprints around the water, there were moose, deer and this one looked like a bear print.
I should be home for the next couple of weeks, before a busy October schedule. I’ll be out to Flat Valley, SK and Rochester, NY among other places.
Today was the first day of school for the girls, even Gillian. McMaster started two days earlier this year, which allows them to have a week long mid-term recess in October as well as their traditional Reading Week in February. Angela has started Grade 12, Claudia Grade 10 and Gillian in entering third year. There was no photo out front this year, possibly a selfie of Ang and Claudia in the car on the way to school, so I pulled one out from the archives. Here are the three of them on September 6, 2005. Ten years ago they were in Grade 5, Grade 2 and SK.
Our Prince Edward Island chronological blog posts can be found here. Scroll down for the latest post.
Number of days on the island: 15 (8 for Gillian)
Number of digital photos taken: 844
Number of kilometres driven: 2136
Most kilometres driven in one day: 374
Price of most expensive gas: $1.132
Price of cheapest gas: $1.029
Price of gasoline for trip: $ 225.57
Number of lighthouses visited: 17
Number of beaches visited: 9
Number of lobsters consumed (family): 14
Taking the girls to PEI to beachcomb for sea glass, eating lobster and visiting lighthouses in every corner of the island: Priceless
While it wasn’t planned, the theme of our trip to PEI turned into lighthouse visits. I started mapping the locations of the lighthouses and it became clear that we needed to visit the south east part of the island to fill in the gaps. Below is the map of all of the lighthouses we visited. In total we visited 17 lighthouses.
The 
were ones that were open and we were able to climb to the top. The
were the other lighthouses visited.
A map of the beaches we visited.
We fly home today, our check-out time at the cottage was 10:00 am. We were up, packed and ready to go, it is a lot easier when you have to fit everything in five suitcases, rather than packing a car up. Another possibility for our blog photo.
The Wild Rose cottage.
Because our flight was not until late this afternoon, we had some time to kill. Gillian wanted to go back to the stores at the Confederation Bridge. It also meant we could visit one last lighthouse.
The Port Borden Back Range Light. It was built in 1917 and decommissioned in 1997 and moved to the Marine Rail Park when the Bridge opened.
Gillian taking a photo of Claudia holding the bridge supports.
The lighthouse is located in the Borden-Carelton Marine Rail Park.
The Confederation Bridge.
The girls on the ferry.
We drove into Charlottetown to walk around. While driving into town we saw this stop sign down near Victoria Park.
A rest at our first Starbucks stop.
Most of the tourist traffic has left, this is looking up Queen Street at noon on a Saturday afternoon.
Across the street you can see the Water Street Pub, our lunch stop the past two Saturday’s. We picked a new place this week.
Lunch was at the Merchant Man restaurant.
The Charlottetown harbour.
It was the PEI Busker Festival this weekend in Charlottetown. This was Katay Santos from Venezuela. He’s a professional.
This statue commemorates the fact that two of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference delegates had the same name. There were two John Hamilton Grays.
St Dunstan’s Basilica.
The girls with Sir John A Macdonald.
The last photo of Charlottetown.
Our flight is delayed by 40 minutes, we are just hanging out in the Charlottetown airport, unfortunately there is no Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge.
An update: Our flight was delayed by 65 minutes and it was smooth all the way back to Toronto. We were at the back of the bus.
Everyone was happy to be going home, but not happy to leave PEI.
It was a great trip, the weather was good for the most part, we experienced everything, and if we waited 15 minutes the weather would change.
