October has been an incredibly busy month! If I had been smart I would have been blogging as things were happening but I wanted to have lots of pictures and I’m really good about procrastinating.
The beginning of the month my mom came to visit. It is the first time I’ve seen her since Christmas so it was very exciting!! The weather wasn’t the greatest while she was here but we didn’t let it get us down. The first few days we spent around Kitchener, walking around our neighbourhood, Victoria park and of course we ate out at a couple of our favourite restaurants. We went out to celebrate my birthday at a place called the Black Shop which had the most fabulous pumpkin cheese cake and mom even took the time to make me a Birthday cake! We spent an entire afternoon in Niagara on the Lake and went on a Wine tour at Hillebrand. Our tour guide was very flamboyant to say the least but he was very passionate about his job and there was a wine tasting at the end, one of many that we went to throughout the day. I think we both had a great time and I’m already looking forward to going again in January for the ice wine festival. It was sad to see mom go but I anticipate the time will fly by between now and Christmas.
The Thanksgiving long weekend we drove up to Ottawa to visit with Laura and Ian. The weather was fantastic and made for a beautiful drive, although, it didn’t quite make up for the holiday traffic. Once there we had a wonderful time. We toured around downtown Ottawa and got to see the locks (in the Rideau canal) in action. We stopped in to see if Mandy was home but she didn’t appear to be around. Laura and Ian cooked us a Thanksgiving meal of ribs and beer can chicken and we spent the evening playing games and drinking wine. Laura and I even won a game of Pictionary which was an amazing feat since neither of us was very good at drawing. (I think the wine helped).
This weekend we journeyed out with the intentions to do some apple picking and to pick out some pumpkins. We found a cute little farm with a u-pick as well as a winery!!! (I’ve decided that I really like going to wineries). Unfortunately we didn’t bother to pick because apparently the season was quite early and the majority of the apples were already on the ground so we opted to buy some already picked and and spent our time tasting a few of their fruit wines. The pumpkins were very nice but we opted to go another day and pick up a few for cheaper at the Zehrs. I am now looking forward to making a few pies, a crisp and Robbie is wanting to make apple sauce.
The rest of the weekend is not yet planned but we’ll most likely go out for dinner and watch a movie. Robbie is making a turkey dinner tomorrow so he’ll be busy in the kitchen and I hope to get out to the barn. My good friend Crystal, whom I lived with while in vet school, is coming up next weekend for a quick visit which I’m looking forward to but after that I am hoping that the rest of the month is quiet!!
