Catching up

I've been a bit lax lately with posting - we've been doing plenty of things, but I usually only take 1 or 2 photos which never seems like enough for a blog post.  So here's a bit about what we've been up to.

Summer is well and truly here - it's been hot and humid and muggy and generally pretty uncomfortable.  I can't wait for autumn - apparently that's the best time of year.  Summer, however, is fun for a few reasons:

Here's us playing Ticket to Ride in the Toronto Islands with our friend Garry.  Jax was chilling out under the table enjoying the sun.  (I won, by the way.)

We need to make sure Jax doesn't get sunburned...

 Summer is also baseball season, so we've headed out twice now to watch the local Toronto Blue Jays.  Baseball is actually a lot of fun to watch - there are a lot of crowd pleasing activities including scantily-clad women dancing and throwing Jays t-shirts into the crowd, plus the 7th inning rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" which is played every match.  It's pretty fun.

Our friend Adeline came from New York for the weekend, so I am going to shamelessly utilise her hot dog photo being as it's much better than mine :)  At the baseball, you get the biggest hot dogs evar.

A carving on a tree in High Park.  (Also Adeline's photo - it never turns out right on my phone camera!)

Stephen's Dad and his partner Anne visited from Australia, on their way to a 3 month drive around eastern Canada and the US.  They bought a car - more of a minivan really, so that they can sleep in the back of it.  Amazingly, Canadian insurance companies are absolute jerks - they ignore the 12 years of driving experience that we have in Australia, and will only accept us as having been licensed since we traded in our Aussie licenses for Canadian ones - so because they think we've only been driving for 7 months and have never held insurance, insuring one car costs $5,000 a year.  Ouch.