For our first family vacation in a decade, we took a long weekend (baby steps, baby steps
) to an area a couple of hours North from Toronto. Through a pretty
amazing coincidence, we stayed at what was then the only place outside of Toronto I had already visited
(on a company skiing trip earlier that year) - of course, I didn't have a clue until we actually arrived and I
decided that "hey... this looks familiar..." 
Though it took us a little while to downshift from the "uber-hectic, busy-busy-busy, regular-family"
mode to "relaxed, easy-going, fun-having, let's-all-get-along-family" mode, we enjoyed the trip tremendously,
from the rolling hills on the trip there (we were incline-hungry after 4 years in a prairie province;), to the
pretty-decent lodge where other people made our beds and cleaned our messes, to the beaches, bike-paths and nature paths, and to the little surrounding
cities we delighted in discovering.
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The roadway leading to the complex we stayed at. |
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The view from our rooms' (apartment, really:) balcony. Coffee in the morning, afternoon and evening was mandatory :-) |
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In front of the Lodge's main office. Don't they look relaxed??  |
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Beaches at day Dad's taking a picture of me with regular camera, while I take a picture of him with digital camera. Poor Ivona is caught in the crossfire :-) |
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Photo-montage of dad & myself on the beach |
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Beaches at night. It was very purpley. |
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Ivona on a horse I mean, Duh! :-) What did you think it was?? :-) (Ivona reports that while the hour-long ride was an extremely exciting experience and a fullfilment of a life-long dream, she wasn't quite sure if the inability to sit for the next three days was quite worth it ) |
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Colingwood (... I think :-) |
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Oh, but we do like that ice cream... ;-) |
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Another "double-picture", this time Mom with the main camera:-) |
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Ivona looking photogenic... (unfortunatelly, she got all the 'looks' genes ;-) |
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A rather Big-Benny looking building:-) |
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If there's an oldy-lookin' building in a city, we'll find it :-) |
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Mom just loved the look of this store; "it would've looked great in our old kitchen", she says (in Dobrinja,
we had a red/white theme going... :) We also had a mighty fine meal in there :-) |
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A couple of ruffians we passed along the way ;-) |
