20th July 2008 Had a leisurely start this morning as the children slept in until 9am. It was a very wet day however and had been raining most of the night. The good news was that it was less humid and cooler at about 20C. Entertaining the children in the house was getting a bit difficult and as soon as there was a break in the rain we took off to the park for a game of football and a go on the swings and slides. We had to make a retreat from the park when it started to rain again. [View Full Entry]

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19th July 2008 We are now in Toronto with Amy's car and the children. The car in Toronto is almost more trouble than tits worth as the authorities are red hot on parking and it involves careful reading of the complex parking restrictions and moving the car from one place to another to avoid getting fined. After breakfast we decided to take the children to the Toronto Science Centre (to escape the heat). It also has an official car park where you can leave the car all day. We found our way there with the aid of the Sat Nav, but [View Full Entry]

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18th July 2008 Today we had a bit of a lie in until 7-30am, even the children slept until then. After some breakfast I took Amy and Richard to Hamilton Airport to catch a plane to Halifax. They are off to explore places they have not yet visited. We decided to take the children back to their own house in Toronto as they have their own beds and toys there. It was very hot and humid still and it was almost a pleasure to get into the car and put the air conditioning on. We did not have a chance to [View Full Entry]

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17th July 2008 We arrived back in Guelph about 6-30am having driven all night in shifts from Detrioit airport. Managed to get up again about 9-30am and try to get ourselves sorted out for the next stage of our trip. Richard and Amy had lots to sort out including washing and packing for their trip to Halifax. We could also catch up with the blogs we had not yet posted. The late night early morning had resulted in our photographer (Dinah) getting a migraine so we are short of pictures to use on our blog today. Went to the red brick [View Full Entry]

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16th July 2008 We got up at 7-30pm this morning in Howe Sound, Squamish. Amy went for a run as usual, the rest of us went to explore the granite cliffs called the Stawamus Chief. The closer you get to it however the more difficult it was to see the scale of it or even see the cliff at all for the trees around the foot of it. We walked through the tall trees at the foot of the cliff which was also a campsite popular with the visiting rock climbers. We did see a board which said there was a [View Full Entry]

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15th July This will be the last entry until we get back to Guelph very early on Friday morning as we will be travelling all day tomorrow to catch the plane in Seattle. The day started well as I got all the laundry done and Amy got her her run before we set off to Whistler. What we had not realised was the road over the mountains was very windy and narrow so took a lot longer than we had anticipated. After a brief stop in Cache Creek (not a memorable place) and at Pemberton (up and coming due to the [View Full Entry]

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14th July We woke early after a good night sleep at Mary's motel in Golden. We know there are bears about as there were some rubbish bags shredded to bits outside the Kicking horse grill, but we are just not going to see any! We made a reasonably early start after Amy had done her run and we had had breakfast at the Golden bakery on main street which was delicious. We arrived at the Canyon hot springs at about 12.30 and spent about an hour and a half relaxing in the thermal water which was about 40 degrees. We had [View Full Entry]

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12 July 2008 Today we set off to the Calgary Stampede, some two hours drive from Banff. We thought that the traffic might be bad as they get so many visitors to the stampede and decided to make an early start. We left the hostel around 8am before most of the other residents had woken. The traffic was not as bad as we expected and so we arrived much earlier than we had planned. We missed the direction signs for the stampede car parks and ended up at an ice cream and milk shake parlour for our breakfast. It turned out [View Full Entry]

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13th July 2008 The regular readers of this blog may notice that we have only just discovered that we failed to publish the 10th July in sequence but having already prepared it have now published it, better late than never. Also we have included in todays blog some pictures from yesterday just to confuse you further. After our very late finish last night we slept in until 9-30am this morning. We went for breakfast to Evelyn's Cafe on the high street in Banff. After breakfast we made our way to the summit of Sulpher Mountain by Gondola together with coachloads of [View Full Entry]

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10th July 2008 Bob and I had our last viewing of Eddie swooping down for his food before breakfast with earth coming out from under the house for the extension. We had to catch the ferry at 10.00 from Duke Point to Tsawwassen on the mainland so we packed up and had a last look round before leaving for the ferry. It is sad to be leaving Vancouver Island where there is so much to do and see and we have been made so welcome. Sue and I have exchanged memories of our childhood holidays together and caught up with all [View Full Entry]

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