Hello everybody :) Well this weekend was a bank holiday weekend for the Canadians. We decided to be cultural and visit the museums – Science North and Dynamic Earth. Saturday we went to Science North. It was awesome. We were going to pay for a three day passport which would allow us admission to both museums and to the IMAX and planetarium. But on arrival we found that it was cheaper to get a year admission – which means Jessica, you will be visiting both with us as we get a 50% discount on guests :) Science North was brilliant – it has three floors; the first floor there are lots of live insects and some dead ones too – and there is a butterfly area. The second floor there is a beaver, porcupine and skunk as well as snakes, turtles, flying squirrels and bats. On the third floor there […]
Fairly random selection of photos from Hannah’s phone And pictures taken on our trip to Manitoulin Island: Last night we stayed in and didn’t get up to anything much, short of watching tv. I think I forgot to mention in the last entry that we met a couple (Paul and Karen) up the road towards Winchester Avenue, they had a couple of alcoholic beverages, but where very friendly and proceeded to tell us all about the local area, they do a lot of publicity type stuff for Sudbury, so they know the history etc, fascinating! Apparently since they’ve lived there (about 25 years) they’ve had snowy rabbits, foxes, racoons, coyotes and even a bear in their garden, which is impressive I though! Their property backs onto the hill out to the north of us. They have a lovely view of Sudbury form their stoop. That’s where I took the sunset […]
Well, this week was interesting. We had two house guests this week – Mike and Neven (who we had met here on our first night in Sudbury) On Tuesday we had a couple of Mormon missionaries around; Michael had invited them. They were very friendly;one of the guys came from a farming background and his family grow sugar beat. Fascinating! Mike made taco’s for us all and a fruit salad thing. On Wednesday we decided we’d go and see a film. Neven gave me a lift home from work whilst Mike stayed at work late. We decided we’d go and get some food out, and as I understood it, Mike would be meeting us at the cinema after Neven, Hannah and I had eaten. We went and got a Wendy’s then Neven dropped us at Silver city (The big cinema). We bought tickets and Mike was no where to be […]
Hello everyone, Well another week has gone by. Hannah made lasagne for us on Tuesday – it was difficult sourcing the same ingredients as we use in England and so many include added salt. Some of the pictures should give you an example of what the difference is in food!! Maple syrup with beans!! Very strange and we’re not even tempted to try them! We have had Mike staying here again – Tuesday through to Friday which was nice; we spend quite a lot of time talking as he is a fountain of knowledge. Hannah was offered a job as an event specialist working in Walmart but for an outside company; she ended up turning it down as we decided it wasn’t worth her working weekends. However she is now volunteering at the library to teach IT to seniors one on one. We went to the IMAX on Thursday to […]
A few pictures from our weekend: Hannah and I got out and about a bit last weekend, they’ve had a very wet start to the year here, we’ve not noticed it really, but apparently water levels are high, in other parts of Canada there is flooding but nothing that serious here. We went to Manitoulin island on Sunday and saw the Bridal Vail falls: Wikipidia’s take on the falls Cornwall UK, has a land mass of 3,563 km2 (1,376 sq mi) and Manitoulin Island has a land mass of 2,766 km² (1,068 square miles), not that different! However the population of Cornwall is a fraction over half a million but Manitoulin island is about 12.5 thousand!
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