Back to the 80s!

Tonight Monica, Jasmine, Matthew, Spencer and I went to a house 80's Dinner, it was a bit of a laugh - to think I was born in that era! Fashion has come a looooong way. I think I could get used to the blue eye shadow, though.....not!

Oh dear...!

Jasmine, Matthew, Spencer and I

Lovin' the blue eye shadow! :-P

Sara and friends

Sara and the degus! (Loving her hood!)

Thanksgiving Weekend Camping

Sara and I spent the weekend camping at Bon Echo Provincial Park, about two hours from where we live. Bon Echo = Good Echo in English and is a huge rock which the park is named after. The rock is accessible by water (Lake Mazinaw) so we kayaked across and then hiked up - here I am sitting at the top. The weather was perfect and the Autumn colours absolutely stunning. It got cold at night (below zero!) but we stayed nice and warm and even had to take blankets off - a nice problem, after our freezing camping trip in Algonquin last year!

A lovely little lagoon off Lake Mazinaw in the camp ground.

Sara and I in our double kayak. We rented it for 4 hours and spent most of that time out on the lake, it was beautiful, but tiring!

Kayaking around the base of Bon Echo rock looking for the ancient Native Pictographs. It was hard to spot them at first; I think or expectations were set a bit high - I envisioned huge stick figures dancing around fires but in reality they were a little more subtle...

Here are some here - quite comparable to modern art, wouldn't you say? Wow, we've come a lonog way. :)

Boulevard of Broken Toes

Everyone say, "Awwwww, poor Amy!"

Naked Dog

There was a dog (I must be going dyslexic - just typed "god show" there!) show down the road from where I live recently and a friend and I went along to have a look. What a sight it was, we got in the door and laughed and laughed...the dog owners are nuts, the showing is all for them, the poor dogs look miserable, standing on their little tables while they are brushed repeatedly and then rushed around a ring a few times to see if their "form is in keeping with the breed." I was intrigued by the Chinese Hairless Crested dogs (pictured above) which I'd only ever seen in dog books as a kid -- man are they UGLY! I think the owners thought we were huge fans because they kindly asked us to help hold their naked little dogs while they rushed the others around the ring. It was quite fun although they feel very strange. They look kind of like mutant My Little Ponies (I hope the loving owners of the naked dogs aren't reading this!).