Happy Canada Day

 How perfect is this?

I loved touring around Ottawa during the week Ron was in hospital there in 2009.

We celebrated Canada's 147 birthday with a party here at the park.

We decked out in red and white for bocci, visiting and hotdogs.

Ken's 100th Birthday

We had the most wonderful day with our relatives to celebrate our beloved Uncle Ken.

                    Here's Tobin and Marika with Freya.

                         Peter, Wallachs and Chris.

             Christine and Ron

Another Birthday Celebration.

Noreen and Claude arranged a belated party for me at the Derby. Thank you both.

                          
We have such great neighbours and friends and appreciate them so much.

                                We ended with a nightcap by
their fire-pit.

46 Random Acts of Kindness

 I phoned Suzanne to wish her Happy Birthday and she and family were running around town doing 46 acts of kindness to celebrate her birthday. They had a lot of fun and amazed a lot of people.

We went down to Peach Arch Park at the Border to enjoy an Art Show with Point Roberts in the distance. 

Today was our yearly happy hour with Clarks and Agnes and Hans. Trying to get us together is always a challenge with the latter driving long haul trucks.

Riding the Interurban Railway

Jan and I went to Cloverdale Station to see the original trains my mom used to ride way back in the 20s and 30s. The mission of the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Assn. is to restore and to operate heritage interurban cars on the original BC Electric Railway Route through Surrey and the Fraser Valley to link heritage tourism destinations.We got to ride the 1225, built by the St. Louis Car Co. in 1913. There were 28 identical cars ordered, 51 ' long,69,700 lbs with a capacity for 60 passengers. They could travel up to 55 mph.

 When we went East, the train worker had to get off and throw the switch to move the tracks for us to go through. We then went back the other way heading west to Sullivan Station but first had to stop traffic 3 times including Hwy 10, a 4 lane major road while we puddled along and a dirt track at some farmers field.

This 4.7 mile (7.4 km) trip was delightful, seeing the back of farms, beautiful quiet countryside,
 crossing the Serpentine River only about 10' at that spot and viewing the restored original car. 
Shoes at Woodwards were only $7.45

We had a ride on the speeder and toured the restoration area of the Cloverdale car barn. We had ridden the 1225 all restored to its former glory with 20,000 volunteer hours. It was the last run before the system was decommissioned Feb. 28, 1958.

                      We had a great time.
They have built a car barn where they are refurbishing another train.

Michael Buble

My great friend Jan treated me to this concert for a birthday present. It was a delightful evening. We went over the Cambie Bridge and just like rock stars pulled into a street parking space available at 7 pm and only paid $6 for the nights parking. The Rogers Arena ended up packed.

There was a 7 piece warm up band for the first half hour and they were great, then Michael came on.

He truly has an amazing voice and was glad to sell out to his home town crowd. All his friends and family were there, even the fellow from his corner store as a kid. He thanked them all and his fans for making him what he is today and his amazing life.He sang at our end of the arena and ended with pink and white hearts raining down on us.

                                                    thank you Jan.

'Football' - World Cup Soccer

To say that Ron is glued to the TV would be an exaggeration but he is so enjoying all the games.
When I turned my computer on last week, this was Google's picture with a soccer ball being kicked from left to right by the 'eagles'? dressed in the countries colors.

 Here is the next . A soccer ball is being kicked against the apartment wall and bounced back again on this roof top.

                       This one shows the large g  kicking ( dribbling) the ball side to side.

Now they get really creative. There was a soccer ball at the right, which flies up to the blue 'g' ( an announcer with a mike) hits him and his glasses fly off his face, flip up in the air and fall onto the face of the yellow O to the left, and blue\s mike falls to the ground. You can nearly 'see' the shock on his face.

Needless to say, I look forward to turning on my computer every morning.

This was probably my favourite. Everybody is working hard as the boss walked by and click, here;s the game again.