Happy Halloweekend

A good night's sleep helped me feel much better. Smallest suffered again a bit with sniffles, still not sure if it's allergy related or not.

We had a pancake and fruit breakfast. Yum yum. Today Small helped me to flip and add ingredients to the pancakes. Smallest was in charge of fruit and Huffle did tidying and setting the table. Good family effort.

After a quick play and a try on of Winter Boots, we all went out to buy some new ones as both boys have big flappy feet which have grown since last Winter. We had a plan of where we wanted to go which included one big shop, then the Mall, dinner and a walk. However, we did exceedingly well in the first shop we went to and managed to get both boys some really nice sturdy boots (in the sale). Strangely, Smallest is in the same size boot but Small has definitely gone up a size or two. I suppose he has to have big feet to stop his tall frame from falling over. At a loss as to what to do with the rest of our shopping time, we decided to go for an earlier walk to get our appetites.

We drove down to the lake and walked our familiar lakeside walk but this time a different way. We think we walked 9kms in all which isn't bad at all. We climbed a big hill which we now call "Smelly John" in homage to Old John in Bradgate Park where we used to live in the U.K. We called it Smelly because it happened to be right next to the sewage plant. Ahhhhh that's why it smelled so bad! It was a fabulous view though.

In my search for the perfect photo of the boys getting along!

At the top of Smelly John

A log called Fred and some graffiti

Lakeside

Jumping and climbing

Seagulls, piggy backs and boys

We did lots of rock climbing, jumping, weird running (oh no that was someone else who had the slowest run we have EVER seen). We also saw two secret agents passing messages to each other (we may have watched too may Bourne films). We walked until we were definitely hungry and then Huffle drove through a very salubrious part of Ontario. It was an eye opener and even though we needed to stop at a shop for Halloween Gummy Worms, we didn't stop there! Even Huffle said "I'm not shopping here". Two signs that made us laugh on the way home were......

HONEST AUTO SALES!!!!!

And WILLIE STOUT (a pub) with a Chinese Massage Parlour above it!!!!!

We had dinner and then picked up our worms to adorn our brain jelly for Halloween tomorrow. When we got home we decorated the house outside. We put up CAUTION and DEAD END tape. Ghosts, skeleton, Frankenstein. We tied a Mummy and a Frankenstein to the trees and hung a bat and monster from the porch. This evening we entered the Hamlet Halloween House Decorating Contest. Knowing how well houses get decorated here, I am under no illusions that we will get a prize but we had fun doing it.

The boys and Huffle selected their costumes and put them out ready for Trick or Treating tomorrow. I will be a witch again. Probably a witch in the ditch as I normally get pushed in there just so they can laugh at me.

Smallest

Everyone watched Xfactor and were appalled once again that HoneyG got through and Gifty left. What a ridiculous load of poo! Small likes it though. Smallest left to go to bed having had enough of it half way through and Huffle was disappointed no one sang. Monster Mash.

 

 

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