'Neipheces' & the divorce boat

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For Grandparents, their Grandsons' and Granddaughters are reffered to as Grandchildren. For us lowly Uncles and Aunts, what can one word can we use to call our Neices and Nephews? Neiphchildren? Well I call them our 'Neipheces' (Neices and Nephews)

What a great weekend. Hanging out with all our Neipheces, seeing our siblings and our parents, and eating two entirely different and two very excellent dinner! With the Harts, Dad treated us out for a deadly combo of Thanksgiving Dinner and his 75th Birthday bash!! He chose to take us to a small and very nice Bistro in Mount Pleasant called Devlins Country Bistro! The Steak was definately the best I've had the great fortune to eat!

The following day we were able to celebrate the season with a classic and absolutely smacking turkey and a whole bunch of other grub made by Veronica's mom... Yuuuuuuumy! She worked her buns off in that kitchen and to our taste buds it was all worth every bit!

Monday Veronica and I went Kayaking again. We loved it so much last time in Tobermory, we thought we'd try it again, but this time on the river. Well River kayaking is very different! We went with a tandem kayak again, but this time it didn't work so well. They call the tandem kayak "THE DIVORCE BOAT". Well we were strictly warned when we set out in Tobermory last holiday but returned with big smiles and never once had a squabble! We absolutely loved it.

Well with river kayak's, they are designed to turn more quickly. Thus they are not long boats which go straight, but short boats which turn relatively easily. They also don't have a rudder so steering is done entirely with the paddles. The problem came in the fact that with the river kayak we sat much closer to each other and thus our paddles would connect if we didn't follow each others rythem, unlike the Sea Kayak used in Tobermory!

Now other than the difficulties in steering, we had a very scenic paddle and very enjoyable. Another thing is this time we didn't get spray skirts, bad thing! Thanfully we didn't need to wear our coats that we brought along so they acted as spray skirts over our legs... and they were soaked by the end of the four hour paddle.

After this we drove up to Tara, had a great home-style burger and poutine at one of the local restaurants! We carried on from their, zig-zagging along various gravel and paved roads, some one-lane roads, across the northern sections of Grey County. Through the hills below Meaford and Owen Sound it was definately the most Scenic road trips I've taken! We have some beautiful country here in Ontario and Veronica and I really love just going out cruizing in it! Though I must admit, my truck from work made the trip even more cozy and gave a great vantage point over fields!

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