Karen was fortunate enough to receive an invitation from her brother Rob to join his family at their cottage in North Bay. We left Kitchener Saturday morning around 8:30am and decided to go the back way to Barrie. Unfortunately for us, we turned onto Highway 400 too soon and got caught in traffic. Once past…
Regular readers of www.dorothyp.com know that each year I like to go somewhere for my birthday. Since last year we went to Hawaii, we decided that we should drive this year. We did lots of research and decided that the destination would be Tennessee. The weekend started off by both Karen and I having to…
We wanted to get an early start today, so we decided to meet for breakfast at 8:00am. After breakfast, we went down to the parking garage and started the task of packing up the van. We finally got rolling around 9:30am. The drive was long and uneventful (as usual). We had dinner at Balloons in…
It seems like only yesterday that Karen’s niece Liz left home for American University in Washington, D.C.. After four long years and lots of volleyball, she’s graduating. We’ve decided to make one last trip to Washington. We decided to take a couple of days off to make it an extra long weekend. We got Karen’s car…
Today is my friend’s Karen dog’s birthday today. Kaili is 6 years old and he’s a Shetland Sheepdog (aka Sheltie). For the last few years, we’ve gone to the University of Waterloo and taken his photo. The first year, his photo was featured in the The Record as “Pet of the Week”. Last year, his…