Tuesday, October 7, 2008

home again

After a really great break to attend Nephewedding #2 in Our Nation's Ca-pi-tal, strictly as an observer and supporter.
Good crisp weather -- and we were...outdoors...
I had packed my glam long black skirt and my glam crushable velvet jacket and my glam little sparkly black camisole top...contemplated the temperature and opted instead for the marginally-less-glam long-sleeved crewneck pullover sweater. A sound choice.
They truly did have the all-time Calendar Picture backdrop, the Gatineau Hills in fall colours, punctuated by French-Canadian church steeple.
Fun reception and a great meal; we were booked into a super hotel and the young-uns were so thoughtful as to send round "goodie baskets" to all the out-of-town guests in the hotel, pretty nice.
And then we had time the day after for some sightseeing with friends, around and about, and further sightseeing yesterday before I had to catch the plane home.
Sightseeing of this kind: "let's get in the car and point it outward and see what we see" is known as "boring around" -- "boring" as in "drilling," not at all as in "yawning."
We had very fine "boring" yesterday and saw lots and lots of gorgeous colour, maples and sumacs and stuff that doesn't show up much in Prairie Province.

4 comments:

Dorcas (aka SingingOwl) said...

Boring is good, sometimes. :-)

Annie's Mom said...

Welcome home! Good to have you back, safe and sound.

lookoutlady said...

Learned a new definition, when we do the pointing of car, it is called a "meander". Sunday afternoons are good times for that.

Terri said...

wow...here in the desert it was 94 today....sure, it will be 60 something tonight...but it is still in the 90's during the day...

this weekend the weather forcasters are predicting a cool down....do like, 88...

what a wierd alternate reality...