July 30-August 13 Ontario vacation 2008

We flew out on Wednesday, and went straight to the cottage. Boat rides, family visits, barbeques, games, swimming in the lake... an amazing new playground and great sand castle building at Innisfil Beach Park... Nicole came up for the long weekend and we had wonderful days of adventuring and nights on the patio, then a side trip to Ottawa for me (dang, forgot my camera, though...) where I visited first with Sarah, Andrew, Christopher and met Katherine for the first time, and then visited with Liz, Matt and Alice, and was treated to an amazing dinner at a gastro pub, and then a morning at a nordic pool spa in the Gatineaux. Ahhhh.... Flew home that night, then spent a couple days in Scarborough--took Anna to the Toronto zoo, paid a brief visit to the amazing spectacle that is the Scarborough Town Centre, and made my pilgrimage to downtown Toronto on public transit for a dinner out with Nicole (Banu, an amazing Iranian restaurant this time). Then we stayed the night with friends in their new home in Keswick, on the other side of Lake Simcoe from the Mitchell cottage. Then back to the cottage for our final weekend there, and Cindy and Colin's party at Cousin Laurie's cottage. We had a couple of relaxing days up there before flying home again on the Wednseday. Meanwhile, TiF was having a grand time at camp Glynis.

Some of my other favourite shots from our vacation is on Tim's Picasa site, here: http://picasaweb.google.com/tim.mitchell/OntarioSummer2008
To view mine full size, go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/thepaperhat/