After my busy week in Ottawa, I am finally back in Toronto. I forgot to mention a PV connection on my trip to Ottawa. Jo and I stopped in Trenton to visit my friends, Mike and Zdenka. I met Mike ("postie46") online many years ago and in PV two seasons ago. They are usually in Vallarta for three months during the coldest months in Ontario (ie. January to March) and this past season, we saw quite a bit of each other. Mike's great for a retired military guy but Zdenka is a Goddess!!! ;) Anyway, we stopped for a quick visit and had lunch at CFB (Canadian Forces Base) Trenton. The mess hall was a lot nicer than I remember with plants and a soothing colour palette of pale greens. The food was very good and they even had a TV!
On the way back from Ottawa, we stopped north of Kingston to visit our friend Vera who lives in a beautiful house on Buck Lake. I met Vera years ago in Kingston at one of Jo-Anne's infamous "girls only" pool parties. I don't remember too much about that party except there was a significant amount of Don Julio involved at some point that evening. You might recall that Vera travelled to Vallarta with Jo-Anne for Jo's 40th birthday this past November. Anyway, Vera and her husband have a wonderful home overlooking the lake and we enjoyed a fabulous dinner talking about PV (Vera wants to come back!) and singing hits from the 60s and 70s at full volume.
Our trip finally culminated in our return to Jo-Anne's place near CFB Borden. Both Jo-Anne and her husband are career military. They also have three kids who I haven't seen since late last summer. On Saturday night, we three adults, along with two neighbourhood couples, went to the Officers' Mess for a "Down Home" dinner of steak and lobster. The food was plentiful and succulent, especially the fresh shrimp served in the bar along with a complimentary cold draft beer! We were entertained by numerous raffle draws for wine and other freebies (none of which we won) as well as the band McGuinty from Halifax. During the course of the evening, Marcel (Jo's husband) mentioned to a friend that I was looking for a laptop and was told about a deal on one so on Sunday afternoon, J0-Anne and I went over there and I bought it! It has everything I want PLUS more and the price was right. I'm so excited!!!
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