The Maltese Invasion

Posted Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:47:28 GMT to Posted in Tags ,

Over the last week or so, I was entertaining family. Not only did my mom and sister fly from Ontario for a visit, but so did one of my aunts, and two grandparents (apparently a birthday present for my grandfather who recently turned 80).

The family did the tourist stuff by day while I worked and I took them to some of the good places to eat in the city and hung out with them in the evening. Went to PEI for the weekend, which was a nice change of pace.

Things were a little weird with 3 generations of family together though. This resulted in my ‘borrowing’ my little sister from time to time to do more interesting things, like introducing her to Freak Lunchbox and showing her some of the local pubs and meeting my friends (the pubs were her request).

In PEI, we basically did out own thing for the day. Rather than go and do the Anne of Green Gables stuff, which didn’t interest us that much, we instead hit up the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum, the Wax Museum, and mini-golf.

It was a decent visit overall, despite a few technical difficulties. New stuff was seen, fun was had, and new jokes (which I am apparently not allowed to post here) were made.

Good times.

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10 Days Of The Sticks

Posted Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:35:10 GMT to Posted in Tags ,

Back from 10 days in the sticks of Ontario for Christmas with my family. While it did have its ups and downs, it was pretty interesting and much better overall than my last visit home. My flight to Ontario was the best flight I have ever had through Toronto. I like how Air Canada has fixed things so I don’t have to run from terminal 1 to terminal 3 and go through security again. <!-more-> Saw a lot of people while I was back. Between the regular Christmas day festivities and bouncing back and forth between various relatives I also managed to see some old friends from high school. Most of this occured on one event, called the Glencoe Gong Show, a yearly invite to dinner that started out with three of us 4 years ago and has grown to almost 20 people out of a graduating class of 62. Most of these people I haven’t seen in almost…..... 5 years now. It was interesting to hear what they have been up to and where they are now. Many are actually working on their graduate degree. One actually has a 7 month old son. It puts some things in perspective (almost done that undergrad degree….... almost…... almost…...)

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