Month: October 2009

This is my new favorite song, I heard it on the way home from a long pet festival shoot and it really seemed to sum up the day for me... This is "Toes" by the Zac Brown Band, you can hear more of the

We pulled into Yorkville and stopped at TRUE, a little restaurant with outdoor seating that looked pretty good. Sandra ran in to make sure they were still open and if we could bring the dogs, they said

Now it's time to try candy bar number three. Hopefully the Crunchie will be unique. Sandra opened the bar and gave it a try, *CRUNCH* it was unique alright! Basically a yellow rectangle of hard crunchy

We found a nice grassy area above he people to watch the falls. Sandra rand down to get a close up photo and I sat with the pups. I'm not big on crowds and the dogs aren't either. While

We didn't want to cross the border because the line back into Canada was huge and all of our clothes, computers, etc. were in the hotel in Toronto. It would really suck if we left and couldn't get back

With all of our shopping done we decided to head to Niagara Falls. We just couldn't get this close and not take the time to see something like that. It was about a 2 hour drive which really isn't that

Next we headed over to the Umbra concept store, they sell some really cool stuff and we had never been to one of their stores, usually we found Umbra stuff in Bed Bath & Beyond or other similar stores.

We drove up through the Bayview area, the concierge recommended it as a nice area of town to visit. There weren't many shops open because of the holiday but it was a nice drive and by the time we made

On the way back we cut through a neighborhood, there was a squirrel (one of the black ones) sitting on his hind legs watching Duke and Goblin drag us closer. He didn't move, this was one of those squirrel

We planned on sleeping in but the dogs got us up at 8:00 am to go chase squirrels. Before we left we decided to double check the FedEx location to see how many blocks it was because we felt like we had

We decided to walk to FedEx to send out my jobs before Monday which was a Civic Holiday in Canada. The FedEx website said it was 1.6 km away so we headed down Bloor Street to have my stuff printed and

While we enjoyed our dinner we started to notice that all of the people walking down the alley way were stopping to look at one specific window display out of several that a store had along the alley It

Our new plan was set, so we headed downstairs to find some dinner. Yorkville is a really great place to stay, everything you need is within walking distance. We tried a few restaurants but hey all wanted

We did a little more driving around then headed back to the hotel to get a Wi-Fi connection. The overseas plan from AT&T just sucked out loud. $70 for 50 Mb of data while in Canada, but we couldn't even

After our laundry was done we headed down to Kensington Market. We heard it was the thing to do on a Sunday and it was Sunday after all. But when we got there we decided not to stop. It was a mix of Canal

We woke up early to find Duke watching out of the window... we went to walk the dogs and as we came out of the hotel we spotted a nice little neighborhood across the street and decided to take

We decided to walk the dogs before bed and headed down Avenue Road to Queen's Park. We had missed a festival but we still found the park to be a nice place even this late at night. On our way out of the

Finally around 11:00 pm we arrived at the Four Seasons in the Yorktown area of Toronto. We picked the Four Seasons because every other hotel wanted $100/night per dog plus a cleaning fee, on top of the

It was getting very close to sunset so we decided to head back to the highway. After all you can't see much scenery after the sun goes down anyway. Once we were back on highway 401 we spotted a sign

Our waiter brought the dogs a water bowl and we ordered our dinner: Chilled Watermelon Soup with Feta Cheese and Mint, a Leak and Cheese Torte, Duck with New Potatoes and Wax Beans in a blueberry

We pulled into the downtown area of Kingston around 5:00 pm and parked a block away from Pan Chanco which was the restaurant we wanted to try. As we walked over with the dogs we passed tons of neat little

We headed out of Montreal on 20 Ouest until we (and everyone else in town) discovered that 20 Ouest was closed and there was no work being done for as far as we could see. Maybe there was a strike which

While online shopping I came across this Henri Bendel video for fall accessories and I LOVE it! You can check out the Henri Bendel home page for now to see the video as they intended. Or you can

I loaded the car and pulled up to the hotel to get Sandra and the dogs and the last load of stuff at 11:30. The valet guy gave a funny look to my roof bag I could tell he was wondering how to fit this

We had been told that we had to see the Old section of Montreal so we drove through it to see what it was all about. The buildings were older and the streets were all cobblestone and very wide. The dogs

The alarm went off at 8:00 am and Duke was ready to go. Because we were in a hotel and two blocks away from any grass we had to get ready to go as well. We walked the pups back to the park that we had

I thought this was a funny Facebook Spoof for those that are ALWAYS updating their profile pic!

"We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory." Check out this video - they transform a set of stairs next to an

Today we have a guest post from my cousin Greg who is on a trip to China. I wanted to share his latest email just as he wrote it. It looks like he is having a great adventure, one we might make in the

Look closely - do you see what this is? A burger with bacon and the bun is 2 Krispy Kreme doughnuts! This burger was featured on the Gothamist blog - click the photo to check it out!

As we pulled into Montreal, Tom Tom loast his signal because of the tall buildings. The poor thing had no idea where we were or where we should go. It was like having a blind guide dog, getting a bit of

Check out this dog swimming and going down the slide again and again and again!

It was 1.5 hours from the boarder to Montreal and we needed to stop for gas so we chose an exit and found a gas station. The price said $0.99! WOW, that's cheap... until you realize that's per liter

Today I want to talk to you about going Brown, it's the opposite of going Green and there is a very good reason for it, in fact there are at least 5 good reasons for it and I'm hoping you will understand

Finally we hit the line to go through customs at the Canadian border. The line took about 45 minutes and we were able to watch the US border patrol on the other side of the highway. They were turning

We were getting close to Canada on I-93, just cruising along when something went flying by. I thought it was a piece of trash except that it was yellow in color. Actually it was the same color yellow as

We dorve through the White Mountain National Forest where we saw several warnings about Moose crossings. This was great! I've still never seen a moose and with any lick we would get our chance on this

We pulled into the glass shop at 7:56 am for our 8:00 am appointment. We were the first ones there and anxious for them to get started because it was apparently a tough replacement process. At this

We woke up at 4:00 am, it was still completely dark outside and nobody else was moving around at all. We packed up quickly and walked the dogs hoping to have time for a shower at the bath house across