On the Friday of the long weekend I went to pick up E and his friend from camp. They were tired but had a great week.
When we dropped off E’s friend with his dad, we were conveniently next to a KFC so we decided to get some popcorn chicken for the ride home.
Back home. My cat friend came through the backyard so Q came out to pet it.
Earlier in the week we had decided to get tickets for the Blue Jays game on Friday night. Shane Bieber was pitching, they were playing the Brewers, the best team in the National League, and every game counts now as we get to the of the season.
We had General Admission tickets so we got there early for when the gates opened so we could find a seat in Park Social.
Success!! (Q is playing video games)
And look who I ran into - Natasha!!
Fan Services had a few activity pages for the kids, including a score card, so we decided to score the game (a bit more complicated than my usual role as t-ball scorer).
A loss for the Blue Jays unfortunately, but still a fun night.
I got to sleep in on Saturday, while Dave was up early to golf. I was inspired by Ruth to pick up some Portuguese tarts. I went to Nova Era Bakery on Dundas, they have the best ones in my opinion. Then we walked down to the river and enjoyed the nice day.
Dave’s parents had brought a kite for the kids, but there wasn’t much wind for it that day.
The baby snapping turtles were hatching and we got to see the volunteers who had collected them and were going to take them further downstream to release them in the marsh a little farther away from predators.
Dave came down when he got home from golf and everyone got something from the ice cream truck.
We watched the F1 Quali and the Blue Jays and then Dave made some basil gin smashes.
Dave’s mom’s birthday was coming up so we celebrated with this cake.
On Sunday I got up for a run and then headed to the grocery store.
Since Dave was golfing, we decided to meet him for lunch after his round. Q wanted to take photos of this butterfly.
E had his friends over on Sunday night. They are heading off to high school this year and mostly in different schools. The aftermath of dinner.
They wanted to play poker.
A few of them spent the night. When I finally kicked them out ;) , and Dave got back from golf, the rest of finally got out of the house for a bike ride. We went down to the Lake, it was so busy because so many people were out to watch the air show, and it’s the last day of summer holidays, and the weather was so beautiful. We did well navigating the crowds.
We grabbed a quick treat at the 7/11 and then biked home. We always have a big hill to go up to get home, but we did okay. Then we got the kids’ stuff ready for school, watched some Amazing Race, and enjoyed our usual “back to school” meal (recipe here).
