Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty-five years ago, it described most of the activities of our whole family. Now that most of our children have flown the coop, it is mostly about what Ann and I (Dave) have been up to. I update it most weekends. We save all the messages over the past year in an Archive along with links to what we were doing ten and twenty years ago.
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Sunday October 4
A selfie on our 1000 Islands cruise
Ann and I have decamped to Brampton for a few days; we'll be heading up to Renfrew in a few days. We left home on Thursday morning making it as far as Rivière-du-Loup where we shared the Comfort Inn with a busload of French tourists who took over the restaurant across the street where we were going to have dinner, and the breakfast room the following morning. On Friday, we drove to Gananoque, bailing from the 401 onto the 1000 Islands Parkway for a more scenic route over the last few kilometres. After checking in to our hotel, we went for a cruise through the islands with City Cruises Gananoque then had a very nice dinner at Riva, the Italian restaurant next door to the hotel. Yesterday we completed the journey to Martha and Thom's arriving in time for Martha and Ann to go to downtown Toronto to see Hell's Kitchen by Alicia Keys at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre; they gave it positive reviews. Meanwhile, I took advantage of a beautiful day to stretch my legs after two and a half days in the car by riding up the Etobicoke Creek Trail which passes very close to Martha and Thom's. Today, Ann and Martha's cousins Jane and Sherry came for lunch and a prolonged gab session.
Back in Nova Scotia, the wet weather continued over the past couple of weeks so we weren't able to get out as as many rides as we would have liked. Since the forecast for last Saturday suggested that the Rambler ride would be cancelled (as, indeed, it was), we took the opportunity to ride with the Railers on Thursday from Western Shore to Mahone Bay via Indian Point, a Rambler ride that had been rained out a few weeks before. For once it was a nice day and it is a pretty ride, especially between Indian Point and Mahone Bay. We had coffee and treats at The Barn before riding back. Jocelyn met as in Western Shore and we had a late lunch at the Island View Restaurant before returning home.
Our trip required some rearranging of the Neptune shows that we had tickets to. Last Sunday, instead of the usual Thursday, we went to see Women of the Fur Trade at the Studio which turned out to be better than we expected (the plays at the Studio tend to be more experimental than at the main stage).