Busy time in Canada

I arrived back last Wednesday evening and have been busy since. Stefanie and I are participating in the Ancaster Christmas Craft Show this coming weekend. I had made a lot if things in Trinidad that needed stuffing and finishing off I have been working on those and am almost done.

Yesterday evening Stefanie and I went for a pedicure, we managed to relax for an hour and felt much better afterwards, I have also had my hair done since arriving back. I really need to find a hairdresser in Trinidad.

Keep you fingers crossed that we will do well at the show, I will post some pictures of our booth.

I still have Christmas shopping to start, Christmas cards to write and baking to do, wonder if I will get it all completed before I leave for the UK?

Orchids

We stopped at a local garden centre on our way home at the weekend.

Along one wall in place of a fence were orchids, they are not planted in soil they just grow with the warmth and constant misting with water. It was amazing, my pictures do not do them justice.

Brunch at Chagaramus

At the weekend we had brunch at Chagaramus where we sat and drooled at all the yatchts and catamarans. Had a good brunch, a few drinks and watched the local fishermen in their boats.

Did a lot of people watching and before we left a steel pan band set up in the restuarant and played Christmas songs. Frosty the Snowman doesn't sound quite the same when it is very hot and the only thing that was frosty was Doug's beer mug.

It has been a while

The month has flown by since I returned from Canada and I will be heading back again on 17th November to help Stefanie with the Ancaster Christmas Craft Show and Open House at her home. I am then flying to England for a short visit with my Mum and family then back to Canada to spend Christmas with Stefanie, Tim and Buster. Doug will fly to Canada December 18th and we will both return to Trinidad in the New Year.

We have been enjoying shopping at the local markets and trying different foods, we have made some mistakes but mastered others. They have so many starchy root vegetables which we are working our way through, we like the Casava but not sure about the Trinidad Sweet Potato, I think a small spoonful on the plate would have been enough. We just bought dried pigeon peas today to make curried pigeon peas.

I miss the soft fruits like Ontario peaches and raspberries, blueberries etc but we have discoverd new fruits like the Paw Paw