Stay-cation Number 2

Can't believe the end of summer is here already. With that being said, it does mean time for a holiday again and much like the last time it is a stay-cation.
Friday after work I went to London and picked up Morgan.  He felt he needed some time away from the rest of the gang and wanted to come down here on his own for a few days.  It's been a good couple of days, we went to a movie yesterday and this afternoon baked oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies like he wanted to.  In a bit we will watch a movie here.  Sure is great having him here.  Tuesday I make the trek back to London to pick up Rowan and have the two of them until Saturday.  Can't wait, should me more fun.
Went for my long run today, ran to the Running Room in Port Credit, ran the route with my group and then ran home.  We had some people out today that wanted to go a little faster which was great for me.  Normally I run the Sunday long run more in the middle and today ran at my long slow distance pace.  The run home was a bit faster with the last part slightly under my goal marathon pace.  It felt good to get out for a run like today - 26 km in total.  Need to make sure I get in some distance with the full marathon coming up in October at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
For tomorrow's baking excitement I'm going to make Red Velvet Protein Brownies - Vegan of course.  Need to have something that's great tasting that I can sayids good for me!
Hope everyone had a great weekend and is enjoying their summer.  Sure is short!
Be well.

Stay-Cation

So I am now a couple of days into my "stay-cation" with my guys.  Saturday I headed to London to pick up Morgan and Rowan to come and stay with me for 9 days.   Gotta say I always forget how many people from the GTA head to the States and Niagra Region - took me 45 minutes to get across the QEW from Dorval to the 403 split.
We had a great first night of hanging out - mostly just me and Rowan as Morgan had been awake since 9:30 the night before - he crashed before 8pm and then got up before 5am.  In fact, I made pizza for dinner and Morgan was out before his was out of the oven.  Rowan and I sat and chatted and watched a few movies, it was good fun and glad to have them here.
Sunday morning was a Long Slow Distance day with my group so I was off by 8 in the morning to run a 15km distance with them.  Talk about a great turnout for the Civic Holiday Weekend - including people that join us on Sundays there were about 15 runners which was awesome to see.  We ran a route through the Lorne Park Road area and then down through the Rattray Marsh following the Waterfront Trail back to the Running Room.  The area through the Rattray is always so peaceful and refreshing - keep your eyes open as Greg even saw a deer.  Sure makes for a great place to run.
After a late breakfast and post-run clean up it was time to do some shopping - Rowan had her needs and wants.  She needed a new pair of running shoes for school which is fast approaching, so just what every little girl needs, a pair of Saucony Kinvara 4's!  So jealous - they're fast shoes!

And then it was time to cover off the wants.  For a while now she has been wanting to get an iPod, so we went shopping.  She has done a great job saving money and was only a little short.  We picked up a 5th generation one at Future Shop and I chipped in as an early birthday present.  We got it home and she was having a lot of fun when we finally noticed that there is only one camera on it - you can only take pictures facing you!

Today we took it back and replaced it with a new 16G 4th generation just like her brother Morgan's.  She loves it and I have been getting quite a number of texts.  She even (with a little help setting it up) was texting with Kaitlin in New Zealand.

Sure is good to have them here.  Going to be a great stay-cation!