We returned from another weekend in the Madawaska Valley to visit Bdot's Mom. The drive was pretty miserable. I think the storm followed us nearly the entire drive up. I guess the CANMNT matches are available on CTV? That's a bit surprising, I not aware of their matches ever being shown on 'free' TV. Hopefully, that will help grow their audience. (And soccer domestically) I had some 'Bacon Poutine' Lay's chips with Laryea and Saliba's mugs on the bag. They weren't bad. It really is a shame corporate greed has slipped into the so-called beautiful game... The ad-breaks labelled as hydration breaks typifies the greedy false marketing. There weren't hydration breaks in the boiling Qatar sun but we need them now in air conditioned dome stadiums? It's ridiculous. Largeman bangon once again.
Once we were in the area we drove by our wanna-be new home. It doesn't look like much has changed in the area since our last visit. Ho-hum.
The weekend seemed to go by fast. We had a good visit with Dr.P. and took the dogs for a very long walk. We walked. They were bonkers for over an hour. They crashed hard after that... Dr.P. has been busy with her own property creating trails. We stopped in at Round Lake to visit her aunt as well and catch up with everything that's been going on with them.
The morning we left, the weather was finally decent. *eyeroll* We met The Artist and Dr.P. at the only coffee shop in town. Dr.P. had just found out that a cat that was lost for over two years is alive and in Michigan. Crazy. The drive home was slow and we made a few stops. The first was the lovely Wadsworth Lake. It's got a nice beach area and was remarkably empty. We also stopped for shakes at Kawaratha Dairy. I had a HUGE Peaches and Cream shake and Bdot had Muskoka Mocha. SO GOOD. Bdot also just made it in time to drop in to a dog training event. Edie found some rats! Dinner is always a gong show the night back after the long drive but we pulled together a great Ontario dinner: local sausage, BBQed asparagus and pesto mush. *smirk*