Niagara Falls, Birds and Butterfly's

I went to Niagara falls with Joanne and the girls. Taking 2 1/2 hours to drive down, we parked and wondered around checking out the sites of the falls. The first stop was the bird Kingdom full of free flying bird from all over the world. The first area we roamed through was with reptiles from frogs to pythons. There were different levels with rooms set up with exotic birds in big cages, but the main exhibit was an open room set up like a wild jungle where the birds would roam and fly free.

We then had lunch and took a walk along the falls for about an hour, then we walk up the main strip with all the different attractions like the Guinness world record building, haunted house, Ripley's believe it or not building, etc. they were cool to see, but very expensive to enter.

After we finished our touring of the falls we went to the Butterfly conservatory just 10 min drive down from the fall. A very beautiful arboretum and butterfly exhibit indoors full of hundreds of different free flying butterfly flying around the tropical plant life.

I'll post pictures later when I sort though them.

The room is done!!

Finally the basement bedroom is done, Yippee!!

Too bad MJ moved back to Montreal. Yes she went back this Saturday, She wasn't making any effort to look for work, sleeping in all day, staying up all night watching TV, and getting pressure from us to look for work. She wasn't feeling comfortable living here anymore and she decided to go back home and go back to school.

She made arrangements for her mother to come stay for the weekend and then take her home. MJ was all upset making the decision but It's to bad. She decided her own fate by not making an effort in looking for work expecting work to come calling on her, or fall into her lap! Well she got a rude awakening and found out the $30,000 jobs weren't knocking down her door while she slept half the day away.

Don't get me wrong I like her, she is a very nice girl, but need a good kick in the ass to get her moving.... and my son Chris isn't any better. So hopefully she and Chris will learn something from this and realized nothing comes easy! you have to work for things!!

Btw, Chris won't be moving down stairs I'll be renting the room out to someone who is willing to work for there keep.

Went out for some Water

After this morning outing I went up to Elmville for some fresh water with Joanne and Victoria, in yes my new Red car!

Elmville touts the best water in the world from there artisian well, which is free to use by anyone. Mater of fact years ago Molsons Brewery used to import this same water to make there Molson golden beer in there Molson brewery in Barrie. It is the best pure fresh cold spring water in the world!! as they tout!


The sign say's it all. The artisian well is along the side of the hwy just north of Barrie in Elmville.

Sipping a taste right out of the tap of the artisian well filling my jug to refill our water cooler at home.

Carrying the jug of water back to my Red car, with others people waiting to fill there own jugs.

Man this is heavy!

Along the way we saw some wild zebras!!...Not really! Elmville has a wildlife zoo and you can see many of the animals from the side of the hwy.

Hee haw!! lol

My day down at the waterfront

I went down to the lake this morning to swim in the across the bay race, which is a 2km swim as swimmers swim it, meaning now wetsuits. I get down there and find out it was yesterday. Arrrrg. Oh well I had my camera with me and decided to take some shots around the waterfront as Kempenfest is going on along the waterfront all weekend long and mosey on down to the running room where some friends gather every Sunday for a run. Here are some of my pictures. .......


A little smile on the beach goes a long way!

Looking out over the bay. this is the beach where we have our Barrie triathlon swim at.

The carnival is set up on the beach parking lot at the end of our beach.
Our marina along side of the beach.

Looking down one end of the beach.

Looking down the other end looking toward the marina

Some of the tents set up along the path along the beach for Kempenfest.

The spirit catcher at the foot of down town on the water front. The knives swing in the wind and they say if ever the knives spin right around it's time to head for cover, as it's either a hurricane blowing though or a tornado!! lol

This is the beach at the base of down town Barrie, nice little pond and waterfall with a gazebo.

Our local micro Brewery Robert Simpson, you can go in and get fee samples, very cool.

Another shot from the main street store front.

People gathering in the running room before there Sunday run.

Gathering around outside the running room before there run.

This group walking to warm up before starting there 23km run

And there off!! running along the waterfront path before heading up town and into the county roads for a 23km run.

So that was it this morning for me. I went back home to put the finishing touches on my basement bedroom. :)