Sunday, July 23, 2006

Sean Meets his equal



If anyone honestly knows Sean, he is a VERY busy boy and always thinking of something to do. And he generally gets himself into trouble. Well...he finally met his match. On our camping trip, the boys befriended a set of twins from Quebec. They all hit it off well. Kurtis and Gabrielle hung out and Sean hung out with Simon. They all seemed to be well matched. They played ball, hiked in the woods, swam together and laughed the entire time. But the biggest laugh of all was when Sean and Simon came back telling us the found a sign... (its the woods I'm thinking a piece of wood to "make" a sign. But oh no...as you can see they found a sign. They dragged it from this high rocky hill and brought it back to the campsite. They both had huge mischevious smiles on their faces. It was a picture worth a thousand words. The sign pretty much said "campsite boundary" etc...

But what no one realizes is that these 4 boys had the most fun and the best time. Even with the language barrier. Simon and Gabrielle could not speak english and my kids...could not speak french. It made their "friendship" all that more interesting and the conversations hilarious. We have exchanged email with them and it would be great for the 4 boys to continue on their adventures.

ADVENTURES IN CAMPING!




Well the boys and I, as well as my dad ventured on a 4 day 3 night camping trip to Charelston Lake. But it came with its own adventures.

Rule Number 1...always check your camping equipment BEFORE you leave. We had to take a side trip into Gananoque the following morning as our campstove was defective... (Pats fault)
Rule #2... Put garbage away even if it doesn't have food and always bring a stick when you check the noise. Both dad and I have adventures with racoons. Pesky little things. One decided to scare myself on the way to the bathroom.
Rule #3... Always make sure of your surroundings before you go and locate all emergency hospitals prior to making plans.
Curious about this one...???? Well. Pat was on many bathroom trips when she ran into a raccoon. Dealing with discomfort and eventually pain, she decided at 2:00am to head to Brockville Hospital (it appeared closer on the map). Upon leaving the capmground, there were 3 OPP cruisers at the front entrance. I decided to stop and ask what was closer...Brockville or Kingston. They stated Kingston was closest and take a certain HWY over some way! Well...its dark, its 2:00am...Its starting to rain and I'm in pain...They decided to escort me all the way to Kingston General at speeds I didn't know I could do in the presence of Police. Even ran some stop signs. I even accomplished this with one hand on the wheel dodging obstacles. But I returned 3 hours after I left with a diagnosis of a rather painful bladder infection. So...while going to Gananoque the following morning...or rather a few hours later...I stopped at the pharmacy.

I'm sure there are many rules...but those ones were the ones that mattered.
Hope to do this again when there isn't so much adventure!

Thursday, July 20, 2006

SOLD!!!! FIRM!!!

Closing date August 31st! Moving on and the end of 9 years in Tiffany Place.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Getting ready for the big day!

Well I don't really have one big day in particular. But I noticed I didn't post anything for a few days. So here I sit, exhausted from my day of packing yesterday for what...camping and moving. Now my house looks like a war zone. But surprisingly a lot less cluttered. But in the meantime I have sit and stare at some blank walls and live without some movies and music for the next little while. I ran out of boxes for now and paper, maybe I need to take a trip to the recycle station and borrow some paper back. Hey...maybe I can borrow some boxes too.

Anyway, I didn't pack the kids or the cat yet so I have to still take care of them!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Having some fun!



Thought it was only fair to post one of each of them. Action shot for Kurtis!

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Lets try this again!

Ok...I thought I uploaded a picture...If all else fails...I'm clueless with this!

I figured out how to upload pictures!

Heres a picture of the boys. Its the most recent I have. Now if I can only figure out how to upload a picture of myself on my "About me Profile". Anyone help!?