Our Family Day weekend was filled with activity times with our closest friends with a day trip to Toronto to the Ripleys Aquarium and a day outing to the sugar bush in London.
We headed to Toronto in the afternoon on Sunday of the Fam day weekend. Aleksy and I had a busy weekend and stayed in Kitchener the night before for our friend Don's birthday/house warming so got home Sunday morning, got ready and left promptly! We carpooled with Chels and Warren and got pulled over in Burlington on the way there... no ticket though!
We got this shot of everyone at our Aquarium day in T.O.!
This was a tunnel in the aquarium that you could crawl through with the sharks and fish swimming above you! This is the adults crawling thorugh: Chel, me and Paul. Our little Serena and Natalia went first! The other little girls in front of us thought this was terrifying and refused to go in!
There was a part of the aquarium where you are moved along on the conveyor belt and there is water on both sides and above you and when you look up this is what is swimming above!! So cool!
The aquarium was seriously cool, the only problem was there were 20,000 other people also wanted to look at the same shark: 20 of which were coughing with colds and 5 babies crying. It was so packed! And we brought a "picnic lunch" in a effort to save some money with sandwiches, veggies, fruit and cupcakes, which we ate in a small corner of the packed aquarium... not the best place for a picnic!
It was a fun day in Toronto though... ended with a parking ticket and some beer and deep fried mac & cheese and pizza sticks at Wild Wings.
On Monday (Fam day!), we had another extended family adventure this time with Al, Steph & Colton. We went to the sugar bush, which was free for family day! We did a tour around the sugar bush, learning bout making maple syrup and at this stand, there was also bird feeders to be made!
And after making bird feeders and getting a group shot with the bear, we headed to the station where we could roast marshmallows (frozen marshmallows are very hard to roast).
After adventures to the stations around the sugar bush, and Chels drilling into a tree to extract the maple we went inside for pancakes and syrup!! My fav!! Plus, a little hot cocoa....It was by donation on fam day.
There was a situation that happened where we sat at a table with a hot cocoa already on the table, which I may have drank... a little on the barfy side...
After our sugar bush adventure we had everyone over to our place for supper with a little bit of board games... always a sign of a good night :)
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I love long weekends, and I especially love spending them with you! I had an amazing time at the aquarium looking at all the different species of fish, sharks and stingrays! I did feel pretty bad though for some of the sharks and stingrays that were kept in those tanks for display...made me think of that movie Blackfish that we watched about Seaworld wales.
ReplyDeleteAs cool as it was though I think I had more fun on the Monday when we had are cute little trip to the sugar bush and chilled at our house! I love those low key and inexpensive plans that we make!! It made my day when you drank the cold hot chocolate that someone else had left behind!!!!! Bahaha still hilarious!
Love ya!