"There are the fireworks! - or is it the Moon?"

The title of today's post was a comment made by Moo last night as we were watching TV. We heard crackle crackle pshhhhhhhh and looked out to find the fireworks. Moo said "ooh there they are!" several times. Once it was the street light and another time it was the moon - silly Moo.

I forgot to thank our lovely friends The Burlington Bertie's for bringing us some goodies yesterday. They bought us four tins of Baked Beans, two jars of Lemon Curd, two bottles of Robinsons Lemon Squash and some Nanaimo. The latter being a Canadian delicacy which is amazingly lovely. Thank you so much BB's.

Today was another scorcher. Temperatures at least 28*. We stayed by the pool most of the day.

This is a very unflattering photo of me but Huffle took it and said I wouldn't post it - so I have, so there!!

We all went in the pool at various stages of the day. We had lots of jumping in.........

Small jumping

........Huffle jumping

Small canon bombing

We created a whirlpool by running around quickly in the water and then stopping quickly and getting carried along by the water. It was a lot of fun.

Then we got Moo to jump in. We made her do it several times because we kept missing her amazing jumps!

But if you put the pictures together in the correct sequence, it looks like she is.........

........jumping in.........

.......and finishing beautifully!

Lazy boys

Water fights.

More jumping

Synchronised swimming, oh no, sorry, Moo trying to get on a Lilo and falling off!

The English Lady

We had a thoroughly good morning and half an afternoon in the pool. In order to keep ourselves up till late for the evenings fireworks, we sent the boys for showers, followed by time at the computer. Moo sat and read and did her crossword, Huffle watched the football - Poor Italy! And I was Skyped by Aunty A. She is coming to see us again. Wahooooo. We checked dates and caught up on news. Lovely to see and talk to her.

One of Smallest's best comments today was "I smell the best I have ever smelt before!" after we were talking about him having a shower after swimming!

By 5pm we were all ready to go out. We drove to Port Perry, walked the main street, had a lovely dinner and walked to the lake.

There was lots of things going on. Music in the band stand, people swimming in the lake, face painting, stalls, food, people camped out for the fireworks later, picnic'ers, bbq'ers, fishermen and women, boats moored and sailing.

People swimming in the muddy lake

Look mrs fried sausage - loads of people again!

We had ice cream and watched the boats. The boys went on the park. The lake side was packed with a lot of people. The boys and I played hide and seek and we hid behind people's deck chairs. It was very funny.

Canadian flags blowing in the breeze with the lake in the background

View of the town through a fish bowl window

Ice creams for the boys

.......and ice creams for the girls

We found a place to sit and put our blankets down. We played on my phone to pass the time and then Huffle, Small and I went to Tim Horton's for drinks and left Smallest and Moo playing a game. We met up with NoCustard who was over the other side of the lakeside. We are meeting her tomorrow for an early forest walk.

Gorgeous high bird houses.

Eventually 10pm came and the fireworks started.

They were over the lake and unfortunately we were sitting in a place where we couldn't see the reflections they made on the lake but they were very good. The boys loved it. It went on for about 25 mins. Next year we will take chairs, coffee, cards, etc and maybe park a little way out. It was a nightmare getting out of the town. Cars everywhere, going all ways, Police traffic control? The boys fell asep on the way home.

Sunset over the lake

Smallest was very tired and very grumpy. Moo, Small and Smallest went straight to bed. Huffle and I had a cup of tea and a wind down.

Ooooooohhhhhh

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

 

🎇 🎉 HAPPY CANADA DAY 🎈 🎇