Summer fun

Is it just me, or is this summer flying by?

Friday night we all drove to the Boston Pizza by the airport.  Our friend Robyn was in town (marking EQAO tests) so we met her for dinner.  It was great fun, my kids love her and dinner was yummy!  We were there before 6, so we just had a smorgasbord of appetizers on the cheap.  My favourite meal!

From the restaurant, we drove on to the cottage with a quick stop at McDonald's for some ice cream and some playtime...just to break the trip up (and to increase the chances of our kids falling asleep on the drive there)

Our weekend at the cottage was great fun, although we had a small freak-out when Drew realized that his friends were not there ("but it's the WEEKEND...why aren't they here?!?!?").  It turned out that our neighbours had their grand-kids up for the weekend, so there were some kids to play with afterall.  Thank goodness!  We seem to be all about playing with other kids lately.

The weekend was full of swimming (we practically lived in the water), fishing, reading (I finished a book-"20 times a lady"-hilarious!), we hit the zoo, splash pad and had some fun fire-pit smores sessions.

A perfect weekend.

Drew was very serious about helping little brother fish....(not to worry, James was just out of the camera's range..if one of them fell in, we'd be ok)

Flash light fun

Eating giant marshmallows

At the Peterborough zoo (have I mentioned that it's FREE?!?!)

Splash pad fun at the zoo

We went to a restaurant we had never been to before...the pizza factory.  It had an all you can eat buffet with JELLO!  Happy kids = happy parents

Monday morning, James got up with Hunter and they went out to check the cows.  I love these pics James took.

James' parents came by and watched the boys while James and I headed out to pick up some stuff for Hunter's birthday party.  We got quite a few things, I still need to pick up some more things though....never ending!

After James' parents left, we headed to Indigo (the above photo) to let Drew pick out a gift for Hunter and then we hit Chuck E Cheese.  We had some coupons that we had to use.

Tuesday found James back at work and the boys, Nana and I on the road to Tottenham.  We were joining our friends Carol, her daughter Sandy and Sandy's kids Lauren and Evan on a train ride.  It was sooo much fun.  It was a bit nerve-racking when we first got there as we were told that if 20 riders did not show up, we would not be running.......a whole bunch of people showed up at the last minute though, so off we went.

Hunter fell asleep half-way through

On the way back, we were told that the bridge we had to cross over was about to fall down.  In order to cross it safely, we had to lift our feet, swing our arms like a bird and yell.  Drew was right freaked out....what if we fall off the bridge, Nana???  Needless to say there was lots of flapping of the arms and yelling on his part.  It was hilarious.

Whenever we see a "CP" train that we can safely go up to, we take a photo and send to my brother.

I'm really glad we made the trip to ride the rails.  The boys LOVED it, it was definitely worth the effort to get there.  Wednesday morning, bright and early, we had some excitement at our house.  We are finally getting our garage repaired.  I am so beyond excited I can't even explain it.  I can't wait to start using our deck again, and to be able to open and close the door leading out to our garage will be priceless.
Needless to say, Drew and Hunter were captivated by the mighty machines working and the giant hole that was dug beside our house.