A great end to a fantastic Summer here in Canada!

It is hard to believe labour day weekend is almost over and summer is coming to an end…a little different than in Tennessee, summer definitely goes well into October! Yes we are missing Tennessee, wishing I was starting at Fordtown this week, I miss my teachers and my friends!

Daddy unfortunately had to work this weekend, taking care of some really sick itty bitty babies, good thing he loves his job because he has to spend lots of time there! Since he wasn’t around Gigi came up for a visit and took Paige, Mommy and I to Montreal for the weekend. What a wonderful city, we had a great time. So much to see and so much to do…great restaurants, shopping, the Biodome and Old Montreal!!! Oh one more thing, an awesome hotel with a really nice swimming pool…need I say more!

We met up with our cousin Saul for lunch today and he took us to a really nice french restaurant in Old Montreal, it was beautiful. Afterwards Gigi treated us to a Horse Carriage ride through old Montreal, it was really nice and our horse’s name was MiMi!

The BioDome was another really interesting place. It is where the old Olympic Stadium use to be from the Olympics that were held in Montreal in the 70’s. They converted the dome into an indoor zoo with tons of animals, Paige and I loved it!

Check out this beaver, he was so cool…he came all the way up to us and posed for a picture!

I think you can see from the pics, we had a great time, can’t wait to go back to Montreal, maybe next time Daddy will be able to come with us!

We also got to have a really special visit in August from Great Gramma Hollinger, she came all the way from Orillia to our house here in ottawa. It was great to get to spend some quality time with her. Thanks to Granny and Pop-Pop for bringing her all this way. We had a nice visit with the whole Hollinger gang, glad they got to spend some time with us in our new home!

We went to Mooney’s bay one night and had a great time checking out the pirate ship and playing at the park!

We also got to visit some of Daddy’s extended Hollinger/Beck family that live in Ottawa. Daddy hasn’t seen these relatives since he was a little boy. They had a beautiful house in Orleans and they had us over for a really nice lunch one afternoon, it was lots of fun. Daddy’s cousin Gwen brought out a whole bunch of her older daughters Barbie dolls for Paige and I to play with. The coolest thing of all was the really nice pond they had with real live fish, right in their backyard!!! I am hoping we will get to see them again, they were really nice.

I have been learning how to take pictures with Mommy’s camera, check out the picture I took of Pop-Pop with his Jeep when they were getting to leave, not too bad, I even managed to catch a glimpse of Great Gramma sitting in the front seat!

Here is a good picture Daddy took of Mommy and I that day while we were waving good-bye!

Another fun thing we got to do this summer was a go to a Blue Jays game with Papa and Uncle Ryan. We did this for Uncle Ryan’s 29th birthday, along with dinner at a really nice restaurant!

Oh…I almost forgot, I had my very first dance recital. I attended a dance camp with my friend Cassie in Oakville. Gigi kept Paige and I for the week while Mommy and Daddy stayed in Ottawa to work. I got to go to camp every day and on the last day we had a recital. Luckily Daddy and Mommy got to drive up for the recital. Everyone told me I did a great job!