After I last blogged I attended the 10-year celebrations at the call center on Thursday. It was really good to see everyone and visit with so many friends and colleagues especially on such an auspicious occasion. Unanimously everyone said how great I looked, and I have to admit with each day that passes I feel better and stronger.
This weekend I got started on building up my stregth and getting back on track fitness-wise. It was a busy weekend overall.
On Friday Wally, Jen and the kids arrived. One of her brothers was married on the weekend so they all stayed here Friday and the kids stayed Saturday. Ryan has stayed on for a few extra days and Jessica is at camp this week. We also invited my Aunt Joyce and her husband, Robert, to join us for supper and had an enjoyable evening/visit with them. Unfortunately Wally and Jen had to go to rehearsal activities and missed seeing them.
Saturday I took Jen and Jess to the hairdresser bright and early. Then, when the family decamped for wedding central, Rob and I took the dogs on a hike on one of our favourite trails. It was so nice to have warm sunshine for a change. The trail is flat and we hiked four kilometers. There were no other hikers around so we let Cole off his leash so he could burn off extra energy. Tess is at the age where she does well to just hike at our pace. We finished off our hike with ice cream cones.
Sunday I took Jess to church to meet up with her parents and grandparents. Then our weekend with Ryan began. This is the first time either of the kids has stayed with us without parents or siblings. Last Christmas we gave both of them fishing rods so we took Ryan fishing yesterday. Unfortunately, it was really windy -- too windy to feel comfortable taking the boat out. We tried a little fishing from shore, but there were no takers. Rob had a great back-up plan and we went geocaching at a nearby trail.
Geocaching is when you take a set of pre-determined coordinates and your GPS and you search for a "treasure" someone has hidden. In this case it was along an established hiking trail. We found a gray container filled with small toys and a log book. Ryan took a fire truck dinky and Rob updated the log. We were the first people to find the cache this month. Aside from worrying there might be a devil guarding the treasure, Ryan really enjoyed looking for it and watching as the GPS it pointed the way and indicated how close we were getting. Just to be safe, he carried a wand and was ready to yell "wingardium leviosa!" if a devil appeared.
In the afternoon I took Ryan to see a movie and then we went to Canadian Tire to pick up parts for the lawn mower. Because it has rained so much our lawn is quite tall and Rob was lowering the wheels on the mower when two of the bolts broke. We're now ready to mow, except it is raining again.
This morning Ryan is playing one of his video games. I got a call on Friday to say I have a mammogram this afternoon. This kind of throws off plans for the museum today...we'll do that tomorrow before I take him home. We may go on another treasure hunt this afternoon when I get back or try fishing again. Right now I should probably get him dressed and fed. We've been having a lazy morning after a busy weekend.
Received a card from Kathy W. on Friday. Rob and I are taking a few vacation days this week and planning to do some camping. Mom has graciously ageed to take the dogs while we're gone.
Hope you're having (had?) a lovely time camping... weather's been good here so hopefully good there as well for you.
ReplyDeleteAnd sounds like the time with Ryan went really well.
Talk to you soon. You have to tell me how the new Harry Potter movie was. xo