Thank goodness for air conditioning!

HOT HOT HOT! Temperatures of 34* not including humidity, which made it 42*. Toronto were giving out warnings to go to cooling shelters!

I skyped Madamme Courvoisier this morning. She is holidaying in Tampa with Mr Pickle and Truly Scrumptious. I interrupted her watching the tennis and preparing for the 4th July celebration later that afternoon. News of Barry the Alligators' Baby was top of the discussion as was her white water rafting, which was not true! It was good to talk to her.

Moo, the boys and I stayed in this morning waiting for the plumber. He arrived at about 9:30. We had had our breakfast and were in the middle of a game of Monopoly Deal, still in our PJ's. He fixed our sink problem, changed our filter and checked out our pipe we had installed in the winter. Very nice man, didn't rip us off.

We got ready, collected a sample of water from the pool and drove in blissful air conditioning to the Pool Shop. The lady there was lovely and took our water and put it in a series of beakers and tubes, added tablets, added colourful liquid and printed off a sheet that said our water was good. The reason for the cloudiness is the fact that the cover came off into the pool and left lots of leaves and debris. Once we get rid of those the water should clear. We need to shock once again and maybe vacuum. We asked a lot of questions and learnt a lot.

The boys found some pipes to play with

We stopped at a family restaurant for lunch (Huffle was in Toronto and having a dinner so we decided we would too so we didn't have to cook later!). It was a place tucked away in what appeared to be an industrial estate. The meals were huge (we had to bring loads home). The waitress was funny.

Moo and I had omelette, home fries, beans and toast (we could have shared and still took some home).

Small had a cheeseburger and fries - look how big that burger is!

Smallest had bacon (his favourite) and egg and toast and fries.

We were so close to the beach that we decided to find a park we had gone to before Moo arrived. We drove and drove but couldn't find it. We found a carpark full of old people (nearly dropped Moo off there!) and walked along a lakeside path. We found a way onto the beach but it wasn't that nice.

She didn't want to play with the seniors!

The boys threw in stones and then we walked back. Far too hot to be out in the sun with no shade anywhere.

After we had walked our dinner off, Small decided we should have an ice cream so we drove to the place we went to when the boys were at their party. Small had never been before. We only had small ice creams but they were good. Again there wasn't a lot of shade so we hurried back to the air conditioned car and drove home with thoughts of jumping in the pool.

We weren't home long before we were all in it. LOVELY. There were lots of water fights, a whirlpool and Moo and I even got to read our books. In fact the boys did too.

Before we knew it, Huffle was home (he was supposed to play Bseball but he left his kit at home. On purpose? Or an accident?). He frightened Moo by jumping out at her and then got his swim shorts on and got in the pool. The boys had their tea by the pool side and we stayed there till about 7pm.

They went in, got dry and changed and then watched a bit of King Fu Panda 2. We decided to put the air con on in the house as it was too warm for anyone to sleep in. Small is on the air bed in Smallest's room and Moo is having Small's bed and room. The loft is unbelievably HOT. No one could sleep up there tonight!

We are watching Wimbledon now to try and find Aunt & Unc Pear and CousinPest.

 

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There he is. Front row. Bless. We watched him put the covers on when it rained.