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A weekend get away

July 5, 2007 by Tricia

I got the prettiest postcard from a friend who’s on holiday this month. She sent me a postcard with a photo of the Massachusetts bed and breakfast that she’s staying at with her boyfriend.

I envy her. Chris and I haven’t had a holiday alone for ages! We always seem to end up staying with family – in someones house or in hotels or motels depending on where we are. We need to get away for a nice little break.

Earlier I was talking about a more exotic holiday and I said that we’d likely stay in Canada for the summer. Well, we have guests for a good part of the summer so we’ll have to stay put, but we might be able to get away for a weekend.

There’s lots of nice bed and breakfasts here in in the Niagara Falls region. We could go to wineries, do a little wine tasting and then have dinner in a nice restaurant. I think that would be nice.

Do you ever get away with your spouse just for the weekend for a quick break from every day life? I think this is something that Chris and I should try to do at least once a year if not twice a year.





Filed Under: Canada, Dining and Restaurants, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Relationships and Dating, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: bed and breakfast, breakfast, Canada, Chris, dinner, Family, friend, holiday, hotel, house, motel, Niagara falls, photo, photos, restaurant, weekend get away

How’d I get so mixed up?

July 4, 2007 by Tricia

Time has been thrown off for me! Does that ever happen to you? You think it’s Monday but it’s either Sunday or Tuesday?

Earlier in my post about my new camera I said that I’d get my new photos on my computer and maybe post some for Wordless Wednesday tomorrow. Uh as far as I know it’s still Wednesday today, although there isn’t much left! LOL

I’ve been so busy working on my sites since early Friday morning to cure that stupid CPU resource overuse problem that I’m still having with my web host that I’ve totally lost track of time!

It doesn’t help that our Canadian holiday was on Sunday (Canada Day) so Chris had Monday off work. He also took Tuesday off work because his brother from Chicago had told us the wrong dates that he’d be coming to Toronto so Chris thought he’d take an extra day off so he’d have more time with his brother but it turns out his brother isn’t coming until this weekend.

No wonder I’m all off kilter!

Oh well. If I do manage to get to the photos that I took on my new camera I will be posting one or two of them so you can see how nice my new camera works.

Filed Under: Canada, Family, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Socializing, Toronto Tagged With: brother, busy, camera, Canada, canadian, chicago, Chris, computer, digital camera, holiday, lost, my sites, new camera, off work, photo, Photography, photos, posting, sunday, Toronto, web host

Canada Day!

July 1, 2007 by Tricia

Happy Canada Day Everyone!

I’m sorry I haven’t been around. I’ve had major web host problems that I’ve spent the last few days trying to fix. What a headache! Literally.

I was also supposed to have gone out of town this weekend – didn’t happen.

We had a friend over instead while I fretted over my sites.

So much for seeing the fireworks that are going off as I type!

I only just got Tricia’s Musings back online. I’ll tell you about it in the next post though … this message is mainly to wish all my Canadian friends a very very happy Canada Day!

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Toronto Tagged With: anniversary, Birthday, Canada, Canada Day, canadian, fireworks, friend, friends, Happy Canada day, holiday, mess, my sites, online, post, site trouble, Toronto, web host

Street people take Visa?

June 8, 2007 by Tricia

Last night, after my brothers and sister, Chris and I finished dinner we were walking back towards my brothers hotel we found that the streets were crowded with partiers.

Everyone was lined up to get into the hot night clubs, or walking the street after seeing a movie, leaving restaurants as we were and so on.

As we made our way down one of the busy streets we passed a street person. He was sitting on the ground with a sign in his lap. We’d already been approached by street people even as we ate at the restaurants outdoor patio … and yes we did give some money to those who looked like they needed it, but not to all.

This particular street person was sitting on the ground near a light pole. He called out as we walked by “I accept credit card payments! I have a family to feed you know!”.

We couldn’t help but laugh, picturing a street persons Visa business address – 5th pole at Front and Adelaide, and pictured him with one of those Visa machines that make an impression of the card number.

Only in Toronto!

Now to be clear I’m not laughing at this guy. I thought it was a great way to catch our attention. Obviously it worked. LOL

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: asking for money, begging, brother, business, Canada, Chris, credit, dinner, Family, giving out money, hotel, night, restaurant, sister, street people, street person, Toronto, work

Alanis Morissette sings National anthems before Hockey Game

June 5, 2007 by Tricia

Did you see the beginning of the hockey game? (yes Ottawa lost). Alanis Morissette sang the national US and Canadian anthems before the start of game 4.

I thought it was pretty good. She has such a unique voice I was afraid she might get carried away but I liked her versions of both anthems. I think she let a little more of her personal style into the Canadian anthem, but she’s a Canadian from Ottawa so that’s allowed.

Did anyone else catch her performance?

Filed Under: Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Music Tagged With: Alanis Morissette, canadian, game, hockey, Hockey game, Ottawa, personal, sang, sing, style, Unique, voice

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