Long Weekend Recap

I'm starting this recap a bit earlier than the weekend because I never got around to doing a Friday Favourites post last week. 

Dave's parents were visiting and did a few things with the boys. 

On Thursday, they all went downtown to see Graffiti Alley and then met me for supper at the Amsterdam Brewhouse.

I made this yummy salad on Friday night to go with our supper - peaches, blueberries, candied pecans, goat cheese and a maple balsamic dressing. 

We got our fire pit out the night and a couple of neighbours came over too.

We celebrated Dave's mom's birthday.

On Saturday morning Dave was golfing but when he got back we needed to get the rest of us outside.  We decided to bike to on of our favourites places - The Greater Good - for pizza and arcade games.  However once we got there we realized it didn't open until 5:00, and were 1.5 hours too early for that!  So to tide us over, we decided to look for geocaches. 

One route took us to these stairs.  We could have circled around to a road, but decided to just hike up the stairs with our bikes.  There was a little ramp on the side so that sort of helped, but it was a long way!

After finding the three geocaches in the area, we popped into Blood Brothers Brewing for one drink and some shuffleboard.

And then we finally reached our original destination.  We were disappointed to see they had moved out a few of their arcade games, including my favourite, skee-ball, but we were still entertained.

And enjoyed our pizza before biking back home.

On Sunday Dave and I actually went golfing and left the boys home by themselves for the afternoon.  That meant they were playing video games and watching movies instead of being outside, but with school starting this week we thought it would be okay.  They have been so busy all summer, they haven't really spent long periods of time in front of a screen. 

It was a beautiful day on the golf course.

This coyote (middle of the photo) came trotting across the 15th green while we were playing.  Then later it and another one were frolicking on the 18th fairway while we watched from the patio.

I hit a few good shots, but couldn't really put together a good score. 

Monday was spent tidying up, getting stuff ready for school, going for a walk, and relaxing.  The weather definitely changes when the calendar turns to September! But even with the cooler breezes, the warm sun is lovely.