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Rest stops along the way

Posted on November 10, 2009September 19, 2018 by Chris

It\’s hard to believe that anyone lives so far away from a city, but every now and then we would pass a home

after a while we decided to pull over at the next random road to let the dogs out. But

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Maybe a Moose?

Posted on November 9, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We drove for miles passing nothing but trees and when we finally stopped for gas at the first place we found it was out of gas! This can\’t be good… Just as we were starting to worry we found a truck

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On the road to Sault Ste Marie

Posted on November 9, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We packed up the car and headed to Sault Ste Marie via Sudbery on Highway 400 North. After a while we pulled over to a Tim Horton\’s for a bathroom break and some caffeine. I was waiting at the car with

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Our last day in Toronto

Posted on November 9, 2009September 19, 2018 by Chris

We woke up at 8:00 am, this time the dogs were sleeping in, they didn\’t want to get out of bed but we had breakfast coming in an hour and we wanted to walk them first.

As soon as we walked out of the

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My new favorite song!

Posted on October 25, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

This is my new favorite song, I heard it on the way home from a long pet festival shoot and it really seemed to sum up the day for me…

This is “Toes” by the Zac Brown Band, you can hear more of the

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Dinner in Toronto’s Yorkville

Posted on October 25, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We pulled into Yorkville and stopped at TRUE, a little restaurant with outdoor seating that looked pretty good. Sandra ran in to make sure they were still open and if we could bring the dogs, they said

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Candy Bar #3

Posted on October 25, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

Now it\’s time to try candy bar number three. Hopefully the Crunchie will be unique. Sandra opened the bar and gave it a try, *CRUNCH* it was unique alright! Basically a yellow rectangle of hard crunchy

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A Closer Look at Niagara Falls

Posted on October 25, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We found a nice grassy area above he people to watch the falls. Sandra rand down to get a close up photo and I sat with the pups. I\’m not big on crowds and the dogs aren\’t either.

While

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Niagara Falls

Posted on October 24, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We didn\’t want to cross the border because the line back into Canada was huge and all of our clothes, computers, etc. were in the hotel in Toronto. It would really suck if we left and couldn\’t get back

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The Town of Niagara

Posted on October 24, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

With all of our shopping done we decided to head to Niagara Falls. We just couldn\’t get this close and not take the time to see something like that. It was about a 2 hour drive which really isn\’t that

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Shopping in Toronto

Posted on October 24, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

Next we headed over to the Umbra concept store, they sell some really cool stuff and we had never been to one of their stores, usually we found Umbra stuff in Bed Bath & Beyond or other similar stores.

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Lululemon

Posted on October 24, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We drove up through the Bayview area, the concierge recommended it as a nice area of town to visit. There weren\’t many shops open because of the holiday but it was a nice drive and by the time we made

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Those Crazy Squirrels

Posted on October 23, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

On the way back we cut through a neighborhood, there was a squirrel (one of the black ones) sitting on his hind legs watching Duke and Goblin drag us closer. He didn\’t move, this was one of those squirrel

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Our Trip to FedEx

Posted on October 23, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We planned on sleeping in but the dogs got us up at 8:00 am to go chase squirrels. Before we left we decided to double check the FedEx location to see how many blocks it was because we felt like we had

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A walk in Toronto

Posted on October 23, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We decided to walk to FedEx to send out my jobs before Monday which was a Civic Holiday in Canada. The FedEx website said it was 1.6 km away so we headed down Bloor Street to have my stuff printed and

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Window Shopping

Posted on October 23, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

While we enjoyed our dinner we started to notice that all of the people walking down the alley way were stopping to look at one specific window display out of several that a store had along the alley It

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Dinner at Michelle’s

Posted on October 22, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

Our new plan was set, so we headed downstairs to find some dinner. Yorkville is a really great place to stay, everything you need is within walking distance. We tried a few restaurants but hey all wanted

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Working in Toronto

Posted on October 22, 2009September 19, 2018 by Chris

We did a little more driving around then headed back to the hotel to get a Wi-Fi connection. The overseas plan from AT&T just sucked out loud. $70 for 50 Mb of data while in Canada, but we couldn\’t even

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The Clown Lady

Posted on October 22, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

After our laundry was done we headed down to Kensington Market. We heard it was the thing to do on a Sunday and it was Sunday after all. But when we got there we decided not to stop. It was a mix of Canal

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An Early Morning Walk in Toronto

Posted on October 22, 2009September 2, 2018 by Chris

We woke up early to find Duke watching out of the window…

we went to walk the dogs and as we came out of the hotel we spotted a nice little neighborhood across the street and decided to take

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