Winter yahs

We did what we could to fight the Mid winter blahs.

First it was Valentine's Day. When my valentine made this really nice dinner.

And we enjoyed some Rose Regalia wine that we'd been saving for a special occasion. Yummy.


What was the occasion? None of us were sick for once.

We we went to the cottage to enjoy the fresh air so that we could wake up from the winter hibernation state we were in.




We even rode a luge sled direct from the old country. I was impressed with how much load it could handle.
I guess it's to be expected since the folks there tend to be much bigger than the Asians. You could have put a whole filipino family on it, or one Slovenian grandpa.



We watched the Leafs keep their playoff hopes alive with a win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

more ACC Leafs vs Columbus game pics




We went to a model railroad club to see what these guys were doing all this time in the basement of a building.

This photo is a scaled down replica of what was a CNR station and is now the LCBO building that's at Yonge & Davisville.
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And we had one super busy day where we went back to St. Joe's and got the head smashing cast off. Kieran liked the cast and asked for a bigger one.

I got him up early to get him to the fracture clinic just shortly after it opened. But we ended up waiting 90 minutes just to get the cast off.

I'm surprised he didn't go postal when they brought out the circular saw to take the cast off.


We then rode the TTC to the downtown passport office to renew his passport so that we could get it in time for our Germany trip in May.
It was another 45-60 min wait. It was packed full of immigrants getting their documents. So I managed to squeeze in a conference call and eat some lunch. We missed our number by 2 spots. But the system they have at the passport office is really good now. You tell them and they'll give you a new number which will make you the next one in the queue. I suppose, that way you don't have to wait there all day. You can come back around the time they said you'd be called up.


We got his passport photo done the day before. And we had to make sure he didn't smile, because only terrorists smile.

He finally fell asleep just when we reached Bathurst station on our way back to the village. I eventually got him to daycare just after lunch.




And we even tried listening to the Backyardigans CD we got from the Corus folks we visited, to pass the time until the spring thaw.