Friday, August 24, 2012

Out of town

Stephen is away at a conference in a far-off land, and the kids are I were at loose ends this past week, so we hopped on a train and went to London. The Ontario London, not the British one!

We visited my brother and his family there. We played mini-golf, at which we three are all pretty terrible, and my brother is not bad, so it was a rout, I tell you. We also took a drive to Grand Bend, a beach town like Southampton, but totally dedicated to teenagers who want bikinis and tattoos, it seems.


Elaine creating the world. (Alternate title: Mary is too lazy to raise the camera more than a few inches off the beach blanket.)

The kids stood on a tank in a park one evening. And that is really all we did!


We were just there for a few days and then we got back on the train and came home. Elaine, modern girl, played Angry Birds on an iPad; Arthur played Tetris on a 20-year-old Game Boy we came across one day.


And I knitted. This is the border for my Botticelli. I only need about another 5 or 6 feet of it.... It is a simple pattern but somehow I messed it up and didn't feel like undoing it to find the error.


So I went back to work on the go-anywhere sock. I've been carrying this around for some time, making a bit of progress now and then.


Now we have a week and a half till school starts up again! Some of us are thrilled with that notion, I tell you.

2 comments:

  1. That's an epic picture of Elaine. There's something very unreal about it.

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  2. oooh! i want to play tetris on a 20 year-old gameboy!! fun!!

    love your knitting! that blue sock is fab!

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