Good Friday, Happy Easter and time for Family fun.

Where are we today ? 

Aurora Ontario

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         Rained pretty well all night and 47F  (8C) at 5 am still raining and suppose to be like this for a while. This is Good friday, just before Easter and a Holiday for most everyone.
      Pretty wet out there and raining heavily, almost lakes of water all over here, nice that we are high enough and dry,  We are making the trip to visit family in Aurora Ontario a couple of hours away. Our 3 kids and 8 grands always a fun time and nice to see everyone again. Heading out about 9:30 taking our time on these wet roads.

it was very wet here this morning
and still pouring rain

yup it was wet

      With the heavy rain and traffic it was very difficult to and relatively slow going, some slow downs but kept going ended up taking us 3 hours. Once off the highways next to no traffic. think everyone was heading out somewhere for the Easter weekend.
     Arrived in Auroa by 12:30 greeted everyone there with lotsa hugs, and of course Fergie huge Golden Doodle  thats thinks she is a lap dog.

may daughters wonderful old home 3 stories plus a finished basement
love their front porch

a huge puppy fix for Suzie

        Once here I was told of a new Asian Supermarket, so had to go and check it out. WOW this place is amazing. Anything Asian they have, I did a quick walkabout for 30 minutes and could have spent hours there, checking out and buying some wonderful foods we would love. And some I am not so sure about.
        Had to go check out this Asian Market and will be back.

fresh Sushi 

cooked asian meals, pork, duck, chicken, fish,
all look amazing

even a full buffet for take out

Fresh Silkie Chicken on the left
blue?

         Fish, shrimp, seafood, live fish, so many interesting foods here.

want fish heads? they have them as well

love fish too, , catch your own?

     Once back to our daughters' place , playing with the kids and grands everyone arrived. Time to put our Spiral ham in the oven, low and slow for a couple of hours so we don't dry it out.

got a good deal on this 10 pound ham,
only 87 cents a lb in Ohio

   The 2 youngest grand daughters hooked up right away and hit if off  having fun.

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hanging out in the kitchen having snacks

making play doh spaghetti
with Uncle Brian

the two young ones having fun

Feeding Fergie

a nice large platter of ham,
more than enough for us

     We had a mashed taters, green beans, fresh made salad, cornbread, buns and lotsa deserts.

    The boys ate down stairs in the game room.

this sure did the trick tonight

The 2 older girls ate in the living room

       Now after supper the guys were down stairs playing ping pong and me and my son had to challenge them. Heck we sure had fun and a wonderful workout. Been a lot of years since I played this, forgot how much fun it can be.

    We all had our special moves and worked up a good sweat, so much fun playing these games with some of the grands. Making memories and bring back some wonderful ones as well.

     Such a fun day getting togehter with the family enjoying an Easter feast and fun family time together.

     Glad that you dropped by and hope you enjoyed a Good Friday , beginning  of our Easter weekend.

     Tomorrow we head back to New Hamburg.

today's travels

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 Where have we been this Summer ?

7th Annual Wounded Warrier's PTE. Tyler W. Todd Memorial event., Easter Egg hunt and amazing weather,

Where are we today ?

Plattsville Ontario

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            Starting off Good Friday will some wonderful warm weather after another lovely sunrise.

right for our Kitchen table, love the view

      A walkabout town this morning about 8 am up to the arena to check out the festivities that are getting under way. Ball hockey for the young ones in the outside pavilion and the 3 on 3 co-ed hockey tournament has begun and will be going all weekend.

the Canadian Legion brought 3 army trucks here to display

      More things going on, like an Easter egg hunt in the park at 1 pm and a magician at 3:30 in the curling club next door. There will be bands playing, silent auction going on, with food and beverages also available.
     At 1 pm we went to the park to check out the activities , Easter egg hunt was wonderful so many kids scrambled around after the Easter Bunny and filled their baskets with chocolate eggs. So nice to see the community all here to participate. Reminds me of the Easter egg hunts we did years ago when I belonged to the Optimist Club in town. Nice to see the Lions have taken over and new younger people have stepped up to the plate to do these things. One thing we really love about small towns when everyone pulls together.
      And while here chatted with so many people we know from all the years in town. And especially good friends Elmer and Kay ( Pa and Ma of Pa-fest we go to in August)

young kids playing ball hockey in the Pavilion

street lined with Canadian flags is wonderful

   The 7th annual Wounded Warriors PTE. Tyler W. Todd Memorial Event. Website clic HERE. 

Picture borrowed from the Woodstock  Sentinal Review

         Article on this years Tyler Todd Memorial Hockey Tournament this weekend in Plattsville in the Woodstock Paper, you can click HERE for the article.

Easter bunny prepping the kids

a good crowd and great weather

the scramble for eggs

a few minutes later all done

then line up for the jumping castle

     Next we wandered into the curling club for a snack, Canadian back bacon on a bun, fresh fries and some veggies. all this food is donations only.

    Then into the arena and upstairs to check out all the goods donated for the silent auction. So much stuff here, nothing we needed but nice to look at.

3 on 3 co ed hockey, is always fun

the band is on a break right now

our coach is the white in the middle, from
 half way down the yard

       Back home enjoying this wonderful weather, I am wandering about the yard here gathering lots of broken branches that have come down over the winter. In preparation  for mowing the grass (5 acres) in a short while, looks like will soon be ready in another week or so. Also checked out the large commercial mower, charged the battery and made sure it fired up and is ready to go when the time comes.

farmer's field north of here

our closest neighbour , good friends

           Just putter around a bit , I redid some caulking that needed done, put a chicken on our Weber Q 100 and relaxed with Suzie to enjoy our e-readers for a while. Love this warm sunny weather  68 f today is not to shabby.

just over and hours and done to perfection

added to our salad, sure did the trick

     After dishes done I sat outside on the west side of our coach working on the blog and enjoying more great weather. A good friend from town walking down the road noticed me and stopped by for a chat , have not talked to him in years. So nice to catch up again and he does follow our blog once in a while as well.

        Starting to cool down a bit about 7;30 as the sun is beginning to set. So inside to finish posting and relax for the rest of the night.

a pretty nice sunset tonight as well

        A fun busy day considering we had nothing planned for a quiet one.

        But we take it one day at a time and enjoy what ever comes along.

       Thanks for stopping in and hope you had a great day as well,

        Easter weekend for most of us, so HAPPY EASTER !

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