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We had a relaxing morning, the girls weren’t up until 7:00.
The girls wrapped Chloe’s present with a treat inside.
Santa was very good to the girls.
We headed out to Dundas for dinner, the girls making sure Uncle Andrew didn’t spill any of the gravy.
Claudia with her new scarf and some new yarn.
Wishing a very Merry Christmas to our family and friends.
Only a couple of more days, where has the time gone. We have had our tree up for three weeks, we had cut it down back on December 2 after the Family Bonspiel. Here is a picture of the tree waiting to be tied down to the car. We bought it at Agrams and had it freshly cut down (from the rafters).
It turned out to be a good tree, there were a lot of trees hanging that day and it was hard to spin them around.
Susan and the girls did their usual good job of decorating the tree.
Here is Gillian and Chloe before she headed off to work today. She got a lot of hours this weekend, tomorrow morning I’m dropping her off on my way to work as she starts at 6:00 am.
Santa Chloe.
Santa Chloe’s helper…Chloe Elf.
I borrowed a 10-20mm wide angle lens from one of the guys at work. This is the type of lens they use for real estate photos. Makes the rooms look a little bigger.
Received the tickets I ordered for the Vinyl Cafe Show with Stuart McLean. Susan and I will be seeing him in Burlington, ON next May. Looking forward to it, the last time I ordered tickets (2007), I got stuck in Alert, NU and Susan ended going with one of her friends from work.
Today Gillian was competing in the Zones Qualifier of the Gore Insurance Provincial Championships. It is the longest running High School competition in the Province. The tournament took place at the High Park Curling Club. I was able to head down after Claudia’s concert to catch Gillian’s second game.
Gillian’s team won their first game, lost the second (the one I watched), but were able to win their third game. They finished in the top two of their Zone and have qualified for the Regionals. They will be held in Peterborough in February. Well done to Gillian and her teammates.
Claudia’s school had a Christmas Concert today, she was singing/dancing with her class and singing with the choir.
The choir was singing “Do You Hear What I Hear”.
Claudia and her classmates were dancing to and singing “Last Christmas”.
Here is the choir singing “Feliz Navidad”.
At shows like this, it is all about the little kids, here are the JK and SK kids.
The girls and I headed to the mall for the annual photo with Santa. While waiting in line we determined that this was Gillian’s 18th visit with Santa. I was pretty sure we took her when she was only a couple of weeks old.
I started looking for all of the Santa photos for the past 18 years and I managed to find them. There were a few years that threw me off, as we didn’t always go to the mall. In 1999, Grandma and Poppa took the grandkids on the Santa Claus Express, on the South Simcoe Railway up in Tottenham. In 2000 and 2001 we went to the Toronto Zoo.
Congratulations to Gillian on her early acceptance offers from the University of Ottawa and University of Waterloo for their Biomedical Science programs. She has also applied to McMaster University and the University of Guelph. She is very excited and Susan and I are very proud of her.
I was back in Newfoundland this past week to upgrade one of our sites near Head of Bay D’Espoir-Milltown. It is about a 3 hour drive from Gander.
The weather for most of the week was overcast and light rain/mist. We arrived to find out that there would be no power at the site from 7:30am – 4:30pm everyday. The site is located on Newfoundland Labrador Hydro property and they were replacing some of the power lines in the area the site was. When I made the arrangements a few weeks ago to come, they forgot to mention this. They did arrange for us to borrow a generator, but still not ideal. In the end we were without power on Tuesday and Friday, and they cut the power further along on Wed/Thurs. This was the view from my motel room.
The Vancor Motel is the only accommodations in the area. It also has the only restaurant in town.
On Friday, the temperature dropped and the winds picked up, making for a more pleasant day with some blue skies.
There were even patches of sun.
Our site is located next to the dam. We are behind the fenced area and the sign that says “Danger, Keep Out, Access Beyond This Point May Result in Drowning”.
The side of the dam.
I saw this place when we had arrived in Gander, so when we came back we headed there for lunch. Inside there was a sign “Reduced Menu Available”, that didn’t mean the prices were cheaper, it meant there were only a couple of items on the menu available. It was an odd restaurant, it looked like they had converted from a fast food type to a sit down. When we paid, I noticed the date on the licence was Nov 30th, 2012. The place had been open less than a week. A google search indicates this use to be a KFC, while we were there a couple of people had come in looking for KFC. The lady that owns this and 10 other KFC restaurants in Newfoundland decided to not renew her KFC franchises and is converting them all to Oppy’s home cooking restaurants. Will have to see if these catch on.
As you can see in the picture there was snow in Gander, along with winds and ice. My flight was delayed leaving Gander by about 45 minutes, not good when I only had an hour for my connection in St John’s. I walked off the plane in St John’s and walked right on the plane to Halifax-Toronto. This should be it for traveling until the new year.
For the second time in 11 years I was away for Gillian’s birthday. We are now even for missed birthdays, Gillian has missed a couple of my birthdays for school trips and Guides. I was back in Newfoundland this week. There was still cake and photos, just have to get a copy to post.
