Monday’s 5th July 2021...mini road trip!!

Took a full days drive to see a Pressa which I have visited before but this time I did some hiking...it was a great day...hope you enjoy the photos!!

just passed a few hikers on the trail..

Some spectacular views...

I had fun!!

Settling down now to watch another Montreal Stanley final game against Tampa Bay.....

Stay safe and healthy!!

Yashi Kochi!!

Sunday 4th July 2021...fun day!!

To all my amazing and special American friends...

This was the cloudy view from my roof this morning...

Sunday morning so I decided to go and play Pickle ball for a couple of hours.....

It was fun and I do get a good work out....came home did some laundry and then relaxed and did some work planning for the pancake breakfast next Sunday....

Nice and sunny so spent some time in my lounger on the roof.....

Today is Blaze’s 1 st Birthday!!!

This late afternoon I was invited to a 4 th July and auction party by Lynn my food hampers buddy....it was at a lovely home in centro , outdoors and the food and live auction was fun.

Can you believe a day without any Tennis, soccer or hockey.....what will I do?????

Stay safe and healthy!!

Yashi Kochi!!

Saturday 3 rd July 2021...a different day!!

Saturday morning tennis was great I do love when I can start my days on the tennis courts..

Afterwards I walked around my neighbourhood and I like that I can buy just a few mushrooms and carrots in one little store..a few doors down I get my strawberries and finish up at the hole in the wall bakery...all within a five minute walk of my house.

Enjoyed watching England advance to the semi finals in the European soccer cup finals..

None of the local theatre groups have opened up yet but this afternoon one small group were doing this play.....

The Venue was at one of the actor’s home in the patio garden and I invited my friend Jayne to come along and we both enjoyed the play and the setting and fortunately the rain stayed away although it is raining as I write this.

Tonight is going to be a quiet one getting some plans made for the big pancake breakfast and party day for the kids at the village a week tomorrow, where we deliver food hampers.

Stay safe and healthy!!

Yashi Kochi!!

Friday 2 Nd July 2021..... a busy day!!

First two birthday celebrations today...Heather and Kirby’s youngest son Zach, who is the golf pro, celebrates his birthday and also one of my lovely lady friends Inga celebrates today...best wishes to both of you!!

It was quite a sunny morning and great for hanging out laundry....

Today was delivery day for the food hampers at the village....my partner Lynn was doing some other volunteer work today so it was just Reyes and one of the local pastors, Father George, wanted to come out with us.....

As always we are so well received and we now know a little bit about the families we deliver to and this lady has a one month old baby boy...

With some of the extra donation money we have bought metal sheets for the roof and here is one of the homes with their new roof...

The kids are always happy to help carry.....

The kids love LEGO...

It was another humbling experience!!

Back at home it was time for another great soccer game from Europe....

Then the heavens opened and it rained really hard for about thirty minutes..you cannot tell from these photos how hard it is raining.....

At 5.30pm I walked into centro to meet Martha my lovely student who I have been tutoring for nearly two years...her English is excellent and we just sit and talk and the hour always goes by so quickly!!

Now settling down to watch another of the Stanley cup hockey finals!!

Stay safe and healthy!!

Yashi Kochi!!

Thursday 1st July 2021...rabbit time again!!

Rabbits!!

Too funny I thought these were rabbits..I must be losing it!!

Today is also a holiday in Canada...

Everyone knows that I am a sports nut, especially tennis and this was a great thrill for me eleven years ago!!!!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Thursday 24th June 2010……Oh what a day!!!

Yesterday morning started out with us going to have the scrumptious buffet breakfast and then taking the free shuttle to the same train station as before but this time for only 10 dollars we got return tickets to Wimbledon using the Tram link.

At the station we took a taxi for 5 dollars which dropped us right outside ….to give it the full title All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

This was a start to one day I shall always remember…it was so crowded but it didn’t feel crowded.

  

The way the ticket system works is that we had reserved tickets for No.1 court these seats were ours all day but the lesser and smaller courts that were unreserved seating we could use our tickets.  I had checked on the Internet and found out who we were going to see and it was clear to me that for this particular day we had the best line up of players , better than even the Centre Court.

We started off by sitting in this court

for a few minutes

Then we walked around

Finally making our way over to our court, here it is without any spectators see the difference??

There were staff dressed in uniforms everywhere and all so very helpful..we found our way to our seats and waited for the first match scheduled for 1pm.

Clijsters is a previous Grand Slam winner (Google that if you are not sure what it means) 

 and her opponent was no match

 and she was an easy winner.

We had 20 minutes before our next match was due to start so what better time to have…..

The next match featured another Grand Slam winner from Australia LLeyton Hewitt.

The fans in the yellow apparently follow him everywhere and kept us all entertained with their chants in between points!!

Hewitt won this match after two sets when his opponent retired due to injury.

Sara and i were just having a wonderful time the temperatures were in the low 80’s and until 4pm we were sat in the shade and it was turning out to be such an incredible day.

The latch match on our court turned out to be some one called Federer…….he has played before and holds the records for Grand Slam wins and considered by thousands to be the best player in tennis history, So how lucky were we????

The world’s best!!!

 and his opponent.

The match proved to be very entertaining and a delight to watch with Federer proving to be too strong!!!

  

This was the end of play on our court and it was about 8pm so we walked to the No.2 court thinking we could use our tickets there.  Sara snapped this on the way..

We tried to get into the court but were told there was only reserved seats but two ladies were leaving and were happy to give us their tickets so in we went to court No.2 and found ourselves three rows from the action.

The seats were padded and such a great view very different to watch from behind the players as opposed to out other seats.  This game featured the No.4 seed a lady from Serbia, Jankovic and a Canadian girl, unseeded, Wosniak.  It was a great game and Wosniak was 2 games away from a huge upset but could not get the job done and the seeded girl prevailed.

The main thing that was stirring the crowds throughout was this being shown on the big screens everywhere…

For those of you that don’t know the game too well this is just amazing.  These two men had been playing 9.49 hours and were tied in the last set at 58 games each.  We later found out that this is a new Wimbledon record as the previous longest game lasted almost 7 hours.  Just before we left the game was halted for the night as it was too dark.  I cannot even begin to imagine how tired these two men must have been.

We left the complex at about 10pm and the ride back to the Hotel was as easy as the night before  and we were having tea in our room by 11pm watching the highlights of the England victory in the World Cup.  That game was played at 3pm but no television broadcast was allowed in Wimbledon!!!

So ended one of the best days ever and another item crossed off my Bucket List. 

We are heading down to breakfast now and then heading out to the west coast…

Stay safe and healthy!!

Yashi Kochi!!