Here I be in Orillia celebrating Canada Day. Me big brother William and other folk from down ‘ome did emigrate to Canada and it be a proper nice place.
Out and about in Canada June2016
July 4, 2016
Always ready for a ride
The big man was getting a hair cut. The Captain was content to watch
One of the sons in the family, William Kenneth Braund Wiles came to visit for the Victoria Day Holiday (24th of May).
He was doing a small repair in the front garden and he let the Captain watch. Martin got out the riding lawnmower so he could give me a ride while he cut the lawn.
The Lilacs are out in bloom. They smell good!
Dandelions are also growing profusely but when they go to seed it is fun to blow them away!
Captain James matches the pansies.
A trip in history Canada 2016
July 4, 2016
Samuel Champlain was a French explorer who came to this part of the country in 1615.
He spent the winter and made friends with the Indians.
This is a commemorative monument in our beautiful Couchiching Park at the waterfront in Orillia. Captain James wanted to sit with each of the statues and couldn’t make up his mind which one he like the best!
Spring in Canada 2016
July 4, 2016
It is spring and we finally got to have a proper welcome for Captain James to our city, Orillia Ontario Canada. We went to the outskirts and showed him this sign.
Caro-Claire Braund Wiles and her husband Martin are hosting him and he goes about with them to their various appointments. This time it was to the dental office in Newmarket.
The dental hygienist was all set to check his teeth but he was reluctant to do that and wanted to make a quick exit!
After the “dental experience”. We made a hasty exit and we took him to a very famous Chinese Restaurant Buffet called “The Mandarin”
They have a senior’s discount and as we did not have the Captain’s birth certificate with us we explained that he was visiting with us from the UK and he was born a LONG TIME AGO and that he really did qualify!! They allowed him to have it!
What a feast there was!
However when he saw this fish entrée, he couldn’t resist it and he bypassed some of the Chinese cuisine (after all he is fisherman!)
Dessert was a different story!
Decisions, decisions!
As we were getting ready to leave, he realized that they had an aquarium of fish, complete with a ship wreck and lots of fish swimming around.
He felt right at home – Hope it didn’t make him too homesick for the sea!
Captain James 