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Bit of a busy day today. After a couple of days chilling at Heather's flat, playing online while she did some work on her freelance consulting job, today we decided to visit Shawna and Neil in London (Ontario), and then we dropped by at Kurt and Gaelene's for dinner in Kitchener.
London... with the River Thames and Covent Garden Market to boot. No kidding. We had lunch sat on a dock by the Thames (which actually seems to be a confluence of two rivers) and then went shopping in Covent Garden Market and had a coffee outside in the sun. Nice day, a little breeze to take the sting out of the sunshine, and Heather had made a little picnic. Neil seems much better, and Shawna was her usual bubbly self. Oh, and I got to catch up with Shawna's two cats, who I spent a lot of time with when I was here last year. In fact, they pretty much shared Shawna's flat with me.
Then we called Gaelene and stopped by to see her. She's expecting their first kid in June and is really feeling the pressure - literally, her bump is as hard as a rock and she is starting to have trouble breathing. And the little one is a kicker too, especially at night. She doesn't want to raise expectations by finding out if it's boy or girl, so they just call it Bam-Bam. So Bam-Bam's getting a check-up on Tuesday, and after that, Kurt's going to drive me up to the cottage where we will fish until Heather arrives later in the week.
Kurt arrived shortly after we did - he'd been out golfing - and they invited us to stay for dinner, so Kurt fired up the barbecue and we had homemade burgers and some nice red wine that Kurt had won at the golf tournament.
On the way back, I played some music on my MP3 player via an FM transmitter to the car's stereo, to keep Heather awake. I started with some ambient techno (Orb, Bola, Gescom) and then ramped up to some D&B. Well, she was still awake when we arrived, so, job done.
London... with the River Thames and Covent Garden Market to boot. No kidding. We had lunch sat on a dock by the Thames (which actually seems to be a confluence of two rivers) and then went shopping in Covent Garden Market and had a coffee outside in the sun. Nice day, a little breeze to take the sting out of the sunshine, and Heather had made a little picnic. Neil seems much better, and Shawna was her usual bubbly self. Oh, and I got to catch up with Shawna's two cats, who I spent a lot of time with when I was here last year. In fact, they pretty much shared Shawna's flat with me.
Then we called Gaelene and stopped by to see her. She's expecting their first kid in June and is really feeling the pressure - literally, her bump is as hard as a rock and she is starting to have trouble breathing. And the little one is a kicker too, especially at night. She doesn't want to raise expectations by finding out if it's boy or girl, so they just call it Bam-Bam. So Bam-Bam's getting a check-up on Tuesday, and after that, Kurt's going to drive me up to the cottage where we will fish until Heather arrives later in the week.
Kurt arrived shortly after we did - he'd been out golfing - and they invited us to stay for dinner, so Kurt fired up the barbecue and we had homemade burgers and some nice red wine that Kurt had won at the golf tournament.
On the way back, I played some music on my MP3 player via an FM transmitter to the car's stereo, to keep Heather awake. I started with some ambient techno (Orb, Bola, Gescom) and then ramped up to some D&B. Well, she was still awake when we arrived, so, job done.
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