The weekend was a trip to one of the many lakes in this area to spend two nights at a cottage owned by the father of one of Amanda's co-workers. Heather was off to Thailand for Right To Play but suggested we spend the weekend at their cottage on Skeleton Lake. The lake is beautiful with many small inlets with a lot of varied "cottages." The cottage of Heather's father Ken was a quaint 3800 square feet with a boat house, three power boats, and several canoes. Ken, our host made sure we were well taken care of. Part of the day it was raining so we had a good excuse to take in the US being beat by Ghana and England being beat by Germany in the Worlds Cup.
Dinners, long conversations, Trivial Pursuit and good company filled the weekend. Ken was a great host and it was a very nice way to spend a weekend away from the challenges of Toronto with the G20.
Unfortunately things were not so nice when we got back to Toronto. Before dinner we decided to go for a walk and got caught up in a police action and were almost beat over the head and detained. We did manage to get out of the action but two hundred or so of other folks on the street were not so lucky.
I hate to leave but at some point I need to let Amanda and Ben get their lives back to normal. It has been wonderful being here and I will miss them both.
Tomorrow it's Ottawa.
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