After a late night gigglefest and a good night's sleep we got up before breakfast to the smell of fresh coffee and homemade muffins in the oven. We exchanged contact information with our new friends, said our farewells to Trudy and Teresa and then to Marie. Parting was bitterweet.
As we proceeded South we made a quick excursion into Bracebridge - the land where Santa spends his summers - and did some phototaking sessions before proceeding to Barrie where we stopped for a very sweet visit with Jan, Gloria-Rose's childhood friend. Jan, as you will remember, was the reason for this trip to Ontario, as she turned 50 on Friday. Reminiscing and catching up was punctuated with tender moments and was very touching. Shannon says Jan is a friend she wishes she had in Alberta and is someone with whom she could see herself becoming very good friends.
The rain has returned to grace us with liquid sunshine so we made an executive decision to forego Black Creek Pioneer Village in lieu of a more indoor activity at a Beading/Scrapbooking store in downtown Toronto.
The store proved to be very limted in options but we managed to find a couple of treasures.
We then phoned Elton and made plans to meet at Jeremy's house before going out to Tucker's for dinner with the whole family.
Gloria-Rose was asked out to a Halloween Dance this weekend with a most gentlemanly young man named Vincent. Once he learned that he would be expected to pick his date up at her house, purchase a corsage for her, and then deliver her back to her home, and that his mother would not loan him a credit card with which to accomplish this, he apologized and feigned disappointment that he would not be able to fulfill this date. Gloria-Rose was naturally brokenhearted but asked for a raincheck. She will however recover after a glass of wine (or two). dinner at Tucker's was fun. it has been a long time since either one of us has been to a smorgasbord dinner.
Visiting with Elton and his son's family was fun and completed Shannon's introduction to Gloria-Rose's family. This left her processing the family dynamics all the way to St. Jacob's where we decided it was wise to position ourselves for the night, so we would miss out on rush hour traffic on the 401, and so we would not miss out on a moment of tomorrow's shopping experience in Amish country. Shannon is really hoping to see a horse & buggy transporting an Amish family before we must leave this beautiful area. The preview we saw of St. Jacob's, promises a lovely day exploring very quaint specialty shops, housed in old cottage country style store fronts, that promise us the opporutnity to tax Mike's and Jack's resources to the fullest!
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