Great Weekend!

 

                     

We had a fantastic weekend of fun activities and wonderful weather!  We started out Friday night by heading to downtown Waterloo and taking in a few of the busker shows and sidewalk artists.  It was very entertaining and the best part of course was it was all free!  The best performer we saw was a young guy doing a flaming juggling act who normally performs with his wife but she unfortunately had broken her toe recently doing some sort of trick and left him solo.  He juggled torches and knives and put a flaming torch in his mouth as his big finale.  It was so nice walking around the downtown in such great weather, it wasn’t too hot and very comfortable in just t-shirts.  Its hard to believe that tomorrow is the first day of September!!  We ended the evening by getting ice cream at the Marble slab….so YUMMY !  I had birthday cake flavoured ice cream with cookie dough and Reese’s pieces and Rob  had sweet cream ice cream with raspberries and Oreo cookies.  We need to get an outlet in the Maritimes before we come home!!  http://www.marbleslab.com/

Saturday I had to work until noon but afterwards we packed up the car and drove north to Elora Gorge.  We met up with my friends Katie, Andy and Liz and spent the evening around a camp fire eating hotdogs and roasting up smores.  It was the first time that we got to use our new tent and it is great, it’s so big that Robbie can actually stand up in it!!  We also got to use our new solar powered lantern and my new sleeping bag!  We’ve decided that we definitely need to find time to do more camping and all we need now is a cooler. We used a medium sized tote which did the job but it didn’t stay cold for too long and you definitely need cold beer when you go camping!! 

The big attraction about the gorge is that you can rent tubes and float down a certain stretch of water.  Robbie got up early on Sunday and stood in line with about 50 other people at 8am for tubes!!  We couldn’t believe how much in demand these things were.  We all got outfitted with helmets, lifejackets and tubes and had the most wonderful time on the water.  There were actually a couple places where the water was quite fast with big rapids and then other places where the water was slow and more calm.  Robbie was ejected from his tube over the first set of rapids and one of our friends almost lost her shoes but everyone emerged unharmed.  You had to be careful in some places as  your bum could slip through the tube and in shallow water scrape on the rocks but It was so beautiful, we ended up doing it twice!! I wished I could have had a camera to take pictures of the gorge rising above us with the trees overhanging the water but then I would have most certainly lost my tube!