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Published: June 26th 2008
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24th June 2008
Got up early (6am) mainly because it felt like midday.
Amy went out for a run and left me talking to the neighbours at 6-30am in the morning.
Mike and Sue had depleted the tea bag stock with their visit to Amy so have had to go to shops for essentials like tea bags, bread and milk.
Dinah still feeling a bit delicate after her migraine of the last two days and so an easy day was called for.
Amy went off to school and left Dinah and me with a list of jobs to do.
Before the jobs were completed Amy was back at home on a morning break.
After she went back to school we went for a walk into Guelph and stopped at the bakery for a delicious lunch.
When Amy came home from school she and Bob did some food shopping while I had a rest to get rid of my migraine.
Amy cooked a very good supper of fish pie followed by apple crumble and we went to bed early ready for a very early start in the morning as we are going to watch Amy doing her last rowing practise which starts
at 6.00 am!!
25th June 2008
We were up and ready when Susan came to fetch us at 5.30am ready for rowing practise. Amy has joined a group of beginner rowers who are having a taster course in the hopes some of them will join the local rowing club. There are only a couple more practises before the regatta in which they are competing on June 7th. Unfortunately we will be in Seattle by then so Amy will miss the race.
It was a beautiful morning with mist rising off the lake and the sun just beginning to rise. Although it is a manmade lake with a dam at one end it looks very natural. It is used by the community for rowing, windsurfing swimming and sailing.
Sharon the coach put the crew through their paces and Bob and I went in the coach's motor boat which is also supposed to be the rescue boat, but with four of us already in the dinghy there was hardly room for more. We were able to get some good pictures of the crew in action and even a short piece of video.
Back home for a second breakfast around 7-30am, more
jobs including Bob cleaning the car ready for our trip and photographing it to put in the advert as Amy is trying to sell it before she leaves Canada.
Then we set off to Crawford Lake for a walk and a picnic lunch. We walked round the lake which is very blue and was created by a collapsed cave in the limestone. The sediment at the bottom preserves anything that falls into it and archeologists have found artefacts from the Iroquoian people who lived beside the lake in their long houses. We visited the reconstructed village on our way out, along with some school parties, and watched the fire lighting demonstration. We decide to get away from the water and the mosquitoes by walking up the escarpment to the lookout for our picnic where we watched the turkey vultures circling below us in the gorge. They are huge with a six foot wing span. They came very close and I nearly got a picture! On our way back we saw a little chipmunk and I did get his picture.
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Lucy
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Like the chipmunk
Is Crawford Lake the one we visited? And I'm sure I recognise the Iroquoian Village? The rowing looks very cool, where will Amy carry that on in Walsall? Happy travelling!