(This blog post has been reconstructed, thanks to a server failure that lost a week of uploads and updates.)

Thanksgiving was a lovely weekend. The weather was gorgeous, sunny and around 13 degrees C all weekend. Saturday we went up to Rockton Fair as we did last year, and had a terrific time. They weren’t racing the rabbits when we were there, alas. But we did get to see young kids and ponies doing their first jumps in the ring, over teeny obstacles maybe a foot high (adorable!), and cows being washed and blow-dried for the show ring. That was pretty amusing. We patted a three-week old baby goat, and a little bantam hen that was just fledging, and angora goats. (They had so many burrs in their lovely locks. I was so glad I wasn’t the one who had to brush them out.) We thoroughly explored the exhibition barn, and saw some impressive veggies, hay, and sheaves of wheat, plus lots of 4H projects. This year we found the poultry and rabbit barn, and it was terrific fun! We got to feed the chickens and ducks, too.

Saturday afternoon we played in the leaves.

Sunday morning, we went to the little beach on Lake Ontario along the lakeside walk, where we threw lots of rocks into the water, dragged wood up onto the sand, and practiced skipping stones.

Sunday afternoon, we went to the Canadian Warcraft Heritage Museum, as we often do when we’re visiting my parents, since my dad works there. Owlet has been nattering about going to the ‘airport museum’ to ‘fly the planes’ for over a month, and she was in heaven.

Alas, Owlet was ill while we were gone. She’d had a wet cough for a couple of days; in fact, I had the doctor take a listen to her chest while we were there last week for a follow-up, and he said her lungs were clear, and that she was probably coughing on the discharge from her stuffy sinuses. She didn’t nap in the car on the way there, had a fever that night (along with a crazy meltdown), napped for twenty minutes in the car on the way home from the fair on Saturday then didn’t fall back asleep once we’d brought her inside, had a fever again that night but slept through, had a decent day on Sunday, and didn’t nap on the way home on Monday, either. We ate early and put her to bed an hour ahead of her usual time, and she slept something like thirteen hours straight.

Both kids are very good travellers, apart from minor frustrating moments. It was a lovely weekend.