Dec 14 to 20

More snow this week, so more shovelling. Our small electric snow-blower does a fantastic job of moving snow. We have been rather busy getting prepared for the wedding of our youngest daughter on Dec 19th. I did manage to finish The Ottawa Genealogist and send it to the printer. Tuesday evening I attended the monthly meeting of the Ottawa Branch OGS. Three people presented their show and tell. Very interesting talks. The one that stood out was about the Heintzman family who manufactured pianos. Tuesday evening we picked up our oldest daughter at the airport. She is home for her sister's wedding and a few weeks break from teaching. Monday I purchased a new cross-country ski set for myself to replace the one that gave up last winter. We have also been working on a Christmas newsletter with some photos, which we will send out. Walked 8, 7, 9, 12 km

Friday
Today of course we had to have some home renovation going on. We had 5 windows replaced on a very cold day (16 C). Good thing they all faced south. This evening Elizabeth, Margaret and I worked on decorating the cakes and cupcakes for the wedding. It took all evening but they are all ready for Saturday.

Saturday
A very cold and crisp day today and sunny. This is the wedding day for our youngest daughter. We picked up the flowers in the morning and delivered them to the groom and bride. We then picked up the two dogs so we could look after them for a few hours and then deliver them to the wedding site, Beantown near Wendover, Ontario. By two in the afternoon, we had the van packed with our wedding cloths for the day and also return cloths for Sunday. The cakes and cupcakes were loaded. Had to removed one seat from the van. The dogs cages were loaded so we put the dogs in the car and headed east. We arrived at Beantown just before three delivered the dogs for pictures, then dropped off the cakes and then went just down the road to O Genet B & B to check in, drop off our cloths and get dressed for the wedding. A very nice place. The wedding took place between 5 and 5:30 pm. A very nice ceremony with lots of the grooms relatives present. We only had three on our side. The dinner we excellent, as was the slide show about Kathy and Rick. They then had a dance outside on the pond ice. Then the inside dancing started with a father daughter dance. We did quite well considering we had only practiced once for about 10 minutes. Dancing was not something we did a lot of! After that the party really got moving. The cake was cut about 10:30 and we headed for the B & B for the night. The party lasted until around 2 am. The whole thing was quite successful! Walked 5.9 km.

Sunday
This morning we woke up about 7:30, got dressed and read our e-mail. About 9 am we went upstairs for a very nice breakfast of eggs, bacon, meat pie and toast with homemade strawberry preserves. We also had juice, coffee and tea. I would recommend this B & B to others who are staying in the Wendover-Plantagenet area. We headed next door to Beantown to pick up the remaining cakes and flowers etc. We then headed home to Orleans arriving home around noon. We spent a few hours unpacking and relaxing before we headed off to Christ Church Cathedral for a service of Nine Lessons and Carols. Now we can work on getting ready for Christmas. Walked 9 km.