Victoria Day

Having an awesome Victoria Day weekend. We went for a hike in the woods at Kortright Conservation Area, one of my fave places in the GTA. It was cool, green, and peaceful.

We saw some frogs or toads - not sure which they were. We also saw a swan chase a goose away. Stayed there for three hours. This urban jungle gets to be too much for me sometimes and it's nice to look at trees towering above, not concrete.

We have been watching Coraline this weekend too. I only saw it for the first time a week ago and loved it! What an awesome story!

In more book news, I read "Portrait of Jennie" by Robert Nathan. I had seen the movie with Joseph Cotten years ago. The book is very short, but pretty good.

Birthday

So, another year older. Yup, another birthday gone. This one was pretty good! We went to Niagara Falls and stayed the night! And I got a chance to try out my new awesome camera, which takes pictures even at night without a flash!

Had to reduce the size of this severely, btw. My camera takes awesome quality pics, but the file sizes are also large. Anyway, took the one above from the hotel window, with zoom!

We had a lovely dinner and I got a very nice leaf pendant from hubby. Then we spent an hour in the pool and hot tub. Then we watched the dusk fall and the lights come on. Penboy was allowed to stay up way past his bedtime. Oh, and our suite had a fireplace, which he insisted on turning on. A good time was had by all.