Yesterday we got up early, leaving the apartment by 6.30 and headed for Toronto, made good time, stopping only once in Parry Sound for a Tims and being slowed in Barry by the snow and traffic. What a weekend we have chosen to travel. We hadn’t realized that it’s the Grey Cup (CFL) weekend, last Thursday it had been Toronto vs Montreal (27-20), then also on Thursday it was Calgary vs BC (34-29) and so it being Tonroto vs Calgary today (Sunday) the city was heaving with people. The atmosphere was good thought, we parked underground on part of the “path” the underground walkways, we walked partly underground then through the city streets to the Eaton Center, where we did a bit of shopping, sight seeing on the Christmas lights and decorations. We ate in Baton Rouge which is attached to the mall. We also visited the CN tower, but didn’t go up it. We then eventually managed to find out car […]
Hannah happened to pop into the Cat Adoption place downstairs on Friday 16th, she saw a cat she liked but wait from my return from Mississauga to discuss it. We went down to the store and I was then introduced to all the cats by a volunteer who works there. We decided that we’d think over night about what to do, returning on Saturday to pick up our tabby cat. He is 3 year old they think, that is a best guess by someone. He has been settling in for a week now, we think that he’s a keeper. He’s fairly playful still and very social, preferring to sit on someones lap if he can.  
We went to the Santa Parade on 17th November, Saturday night, it was cold out, but not half as cold as it was last year. We met with a couple of Hannah’s work friends and family outside of the mall to watch it. We watching about half of the 90 something floats go past, then we popped to Tims for a Coffee and a doughnut and returned to watch the rest. We left before the first works as they were setup behind Indipendent, so we were able to watch them from home. We walked in and back, the traffic on the roads before and after was incredible.  
Last Tuesday I had to move my Aloe Vera plant off the heater, as the heater is under the window and the window have been open to cool the flat, so the plant was very cold, probably close to freezing. I felt this might be retarding it’s growth/intellect, so it now resides on top of a cabinet on the far side of the room in the 23 or 24 degree heat of our apartment. On that heat subject we spoke to our land lord and asked if he could turn the heating down, he explained that the heating is provided by a boiler which supplies all the apartments, ours though is one of the first in the loop… So I suggested that we might insulate our heaters so that the heat is kept in the pipes and passed on to the next apartment. The helicopter might not have battery issues, not sure if I said but […]
Friday afternoon I took a few hours off work and Hannah and I went to North Bay for a trip, we had great fun and did a bit of shopping. Then today we went to Manitoulin Island and did a bit of the Cup and Saucer trail. It was cold out today, about -2 but ‘feels like -8’ according to the weather report .  
Random news, some it quite out of date, but still here goes. Hannah won the Bingo last week, she jointly won with another lady, she brought home enough to buy about 8 combo meals from Harvey’s (inc Tax, HST and PST), which is quite a substantial amount of cash! But not enough to quite her day job. The weather has been quite rough in recent days, we have just been clipped by the edge of storm Sandy.   We had high winds and lots of rain, Sudbury didn’t suffer much at all, Toronto had trees blown down.
Well this morning we discovered that it had snowed overnight! We were pretty excited, I drove to work, so dropped Hannah into work also we both cleared the car of snow, Hannah and I took pictures! We must have looked like a right pair of nitwits! I told everybody at work that I was thrilled with the snow, I understand that the general consensus amongst Canadians is that snow and winter is bad?! Strange bunch they are. Only Andre and Drew were looking forward to it. Hannah has had Fido representatives at the mall, they have been offering mall employees a deal on contract phones, so we decided that we were sending that much anyways, so we now have a Sony Xperia phone, which runs Android much to my delight. Still it will live with Hannah but at least now we have 1GB of data and unlimited everything else. I have installed Maps. I feel compelled to report that […]
Today we drove about an hour and three quarters out of Sudbury to the west, the south towards Lake Huron and Manitoulin Island. We stopped a couple of time along the way, firstly for fuel, then for lunch. When we finally got to Fort La Cloche, we had driven down a rough gravel track for about 3km. We arrived at the derelict building and the water fall, there was a car there already, we wandered around the water fall,. then decided to drive on towards the lake. the beach was a surprise, we weren’t expecting to find somewhere that beautiful. I wanted badly to have my Land Rover there and go racing around on the sand.. probably would have gotten it stuck. At least the tide wouldn’t have come in and got me!! It was weird how the water level was so very close to the level of the dry sand.  
We went to Onapping Falls back on the 6th October, Hannah took some lovely pictures:
Not at the same time, but Friday night Roy the Ozzy from next door came round with a bottle of wheat beer from the Muskokas. Apparently it doesn’t last very long, they make it and then it has to be drunk by November that year. It was very good, very fizzy but good. On Saturday we went and got ourselves some snow shoes. We still need the snow to try them out.  
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