Toronto and Lake Muskoka - Canada

We flew on Fri 24th July to Toronto from NYC and met up with all the West family. It was the first time in 15 years that we had all been together in Canada and we had dinner in my brothers new basement at his house in Oakville. We visited Niagara falls before going on up to the lakes - to a house on Lake Muskoka. Niagara was an amazing experience - both to go behind the Falls and also on lady in the Mist - which takes you to the edge of the falls on a boat - both include getting very wet!

We had a great week in Lake Muskoka - although the weather took a few days to warm up. We rented a ski boat to ski, wakeboard, knee board and ringo and we did a fair bit of that - with everyone giving it a go - even my 70-yr old step mother had a go at ringoing! All the cousins dramatically improved their skiing and most mono-skied which was great to see. We relaxed, ate and had fun on and off the water. It was great to have everyone around and our young kids loved being around the teenage and older cousins - they thought they were very cool!! Very diificult goodbyes as we wont see many of them until Xmas in NZ and some others until after April next year - so it was lovely to spend a wonderful week with all of us together and mixing so well!

And we left early to take the boys to summer camp in Minnesota today..............