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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Visit with my cousins and uncle

We drove out to Oshawa (3.5 hr drive) to visit my cousins Leslie & Chad and my Uncle Kerry & Aunt Barb.

We arrived at Leslie's Mom's place and she was right at the door to greet us. It was so exciting to see her as we hadn't seen eachother since 1992.

The three of us took off for awhile to go out to visit our grandparents gravesite which was hard. I'd never been there before and our grandparents were such wonderful people.

After going there we went to the Bowmanville arena where we went through the museum in search of our grandfathers picture as he was an NHL player and his picture was somewhere within the museum. We found him under "Local Hero's" and that was pretty neat.

So then we went back to her Mom's place where we hung out with Sharon and her stepdad, Ron and had some snacks. Her Mom is a really good cook and made this oh so yummy dip so ya I liked that a lot ;)

After awhile Chad came over which was awesome. We had dinner soon after and again it was so delicious. Her Mom really spoiled us with the good meals and the yummy dessert. We were stuffed after that and just relaxed and Chad went home and we went to bed.

The next day we headed over to my Uncle Kerry's place for a barbeque and we had a good time there visiting and again the meal was really good. My uncle is a pretty cool guy. We took lots of pictures of the "Dickens crew" which I will post in a bit.

We spent the night with my uncle and in the morning we got to hang out with him some more which was great. Then my cousin Chad came over and we said goodbye to my uncle and the three of us headed out for breakfast. It was good to spend time with Chad. He and I had two fun summers together when we were young and he has grown into a really great man.

Once breakfast was over we said our goodbyes and headed back to Ottawa.

We're home!

We arrived home late on Wednesday, August 15th after a long but good flight home.

When we walked in the door Rocco was in the room at the bottom of the stairs and he started barking and then just stared at us from the bottom step. We kept saying his name and he got this shocked look on his face and then walked towards us and as he got closer you could see the recognition on his face and then pure joy and he was all over us with kisses and cuddles and excitement. We felt so bad because it was as if he thought we'd left him forever. We both swore we would never leave him like that again.

So we went to bed with a very happy puppy laying between us and smothering us with kisses :-) *Sigh* what a way to fall asleep.

The following day we ran some errands, tidied up a bit around the house and just relaxed. On Friday we got up fairly early and packed up and headed to Bragg Creek for the day. We had a hot dog roast and just relaxed. It was the perfect day..not too hot or too cold. And of course, Rocco was with us.

The rest of the weekend was just spent relaxing and doing chores around the house. Nothing too exciting.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

VERY Brief Update

We arrived in Ottawa on July 26th and stayed with Maggie and family for two days and then they headed to New brunswick and we headed to Oshawa where we spent two days with my cousins Leslie & Chad and my Uncle Kerry and Aunt Barb.
Then we headed back to Ottawa where we've been visiting with Clara and family.
Tomorrow morning (3rd) we're heading out bright and early for a 12 hour drive to Bathurst New brunswick.

So that is the quick update. I will post stories and PICTURES once we return to Calgary on the 15th of August.

Hope everyone is having a good summer.