A wedding, a parade, a weekend

It was father's day weekend, but we also had a wedding. First of all, the wedding: the best part about the wedding was getting to see Jayne and Craig (and their kids).

Seeing Heather getting married was also great, don't get me wrong. She's an old friend from curling and life, and she appeared to be very peaceful and very happy. Rhona and I thought she was glowing. Ron, her new husband is a born again Chinese man, so the wedding and reception involved a lot of god and a lot of food. Here's how the reception went down.

The meal was a ten-course Chinese food meal. Heather sat us at a western table, so the food was toned down a little bit. However, I did have Braised Shark fin soup (consistency of mucus) and boiled Sea Cucumber (ditto), both firsts. A roast pig led off the dinner, followed by various dished that included: bbq chicken, broccoli, shrimp and scallop stir fry, a sea food dish that included clam, scallop and the aforementioned sea cucumber. The 8th course was fried rice while the ninth and tenth were dessert. Some cookies made up the first bit of dessert while a hot sweet bean soup with potato(??) made up the final dessert. I took a whirl at everything and thought it was good, but hot bean soup with potato doesn't fit my definition of dessert.

While we were frolicking at a born-again Christian/Chinese wedding, Autumn was at nanny and granddad's. She actually participated in Brampton's official summer kick-off, the Flower Parade. She was in the parade! She's seen a parade before, but she's never been in one. This is a first. We hope to have pictures soon.

Here are some of the weekend anyway:

This was at a park in Oakville.


And this is back home reflecting on the weekend.