Heritage Park Barrie Ontario
In July I began in earnest work on the PittGlobal website.
Then we went to Ontario for our annual timeshare outing.
I took lots of pictures, including those below.
Our Canadian immigration inspector asked me where we were going.
I told him and then he wanted to know, "What's going on there."
Mindful of the ancient Chinese curse about living in interesting times,
I politely informed him, "Nothing, I hope."
That did not seem to be the sort of answer he wanted,
so S told him we were going on vacation.
Fortuneately, my hopes were realized and nothing momentous occurred.
In order to see the Falls themselves on our second day,
we stayed at The
Little Foxes at the Shaw Festival. The next day was cloudy, so
there were no good pictures of the Falls.
We exchanged our time-share to stay at
near Lake Simcoe in Ontario. They are competent, but lack a clubhouse.
(As usual RCI booked us into a a single room, pocketing for themselves
the value of the full apartment we are entitled to on our timeshare
agreement. Someone is making a bundle at our expense.)
While at Carriage Hills, S went for a boat ride to the Thirty Thousand
Islands; or at least a small fraction of them. Later she went to . This site was established as a major French
Jesuit center in the seventeenth century, but was abandoned after ten
years to avoid hostile tribes. On Tuesday we drove in to Barrie to see at the open-air Theatre by the Bay. We were willing
to endure the raindrops, but the director called the show because the
actors could have been hurt by slipping on the grass. And well they
could have, as we saw when we returned on Friday to cash in our rain
checks.
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