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Well all our visitors have now departed. Mum & Dad had a wonderful week with us and arrived home safe but tired on Thursday. The flight home was horrendous. The leg room on their return Air Transat flight was minimal...However, they made it and now vow to upgrade next time they come out!
Anyway we had a lovely time with them, taking them to a few places. We went to Peggy's Cove on Monday which was lovely though VERY busy. We arrived after lunch and got clobbered by 4 coachloads of old people (mainly Americans). However, we managed to get a seat and had a nice lunch in the Sou'Wester restaurant, then a pleasant drive home via Prospect. They loved Peggy's Cove, and it was the first time I'd been there this summer, so it was nice for me too!
On Wednesday we drove out to Mount Uniacke Estate. Owned by Nova Scotia Museums, it is a country mansion complete with original fittings and furnishings. It was beautiful, not only the house and grounds, but the weather as well. It was very quiet, and so the guide actually took us around and spent a lot of time explaining a lot of features and things that had gone on in the house. Highly recommended, especially at $3 a head to get in (we were free with our Museum Card) or $2 for Seniors. Then it was a final lunch at Tim Hortons, before home to finish packing. I then discovered it was registration night at Cubs. I thought I should be there as I'm going to be a leader this year (assuming I get the security clearance!). I didn't stay long as I had to get home to take Mum & Dad to the Airport for their 00:55 flight. Very sad to see them go and wish they had been here longer. However, they can now visualise everything we talk about, know what we mean when we say we've been to Tim Hortons and hopefully understand our reasons for moving here in the first place.
Thursday saw me back at work and catching up with emails - nowhere near as many as I used to get at Lyneham! And then before I knew it, it was the weekend again. The weather was fantastic, glorious sunshine and warm. We got woken at 7.30am by Spencer (next door's little boy) talking on the walkie-talkie - the partner of which happened to be in Matthew's bedroom! - so much for a Matthew having a lie-in. We then spent most of the day in the garden, walked the dog to next door's new house lot and then had a BBQ in the evening. Sunday again dawned warm and sunny, I decided to go out on my bike and cycled up to Enfield and back - about 20km - and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then in the afternoon, Deborah took the children to see Drum! - a show in town, and I wandered along the waterfront and went to the Museum of the Atlantic, which has a couple of excellent exhibits on the Titanic and the Halifax Explosion.
It was a TV night last night - new series called Studio 60 on Sunset Strip which was very good. Then it was followed by the final of Canadian Idol, which saw Eva Avila win. Well deserved in my opinion. We'll be seeing a lot more of her in the years ahead. Finally it was Season Premier of Amazing Race. 12 couples race around the world to win a prize of $1,000,000. Two couples got eliminated on the first show, which was unexpected. Sunday night looks like it might be a good telly night, so I'll have to make sure the blog gets written beforehand!
I've also spent a lot of time creating the new website for our Toastmasters club. We're hoping to go live in the next couple of weeks. You'll see the new site linked to the right of this page. You might like to check out the old site and then compare....