This last week has been very busy for us. There has been lots of activity and interest in our house. Seems like there are showings for 2-3 hours every day. We have to leave the house during the showings which is a bit of a pain at times but certainly nothing we can't handle. On the plus side....Casey's basement 'pit' or 'dungeon' has never looked cleaner. Yahoo!
Chris received her final reflexology written exam marks and certification in the mail. She aced the written exam to go along with her practical exam which she did in London back in mid May. She is pretty happy and we are all very proud of her. She was a little worried about the written exam apparently, but thankfully that was all for not. Atta Girl!!! She also has an interview at CHEO for a nursing job in Pediatrics ICU tomorrow morning, so hopefully everything goes well in that regard too.
Weather has been a mixed bag in Ottawa this past week. Some rain every day and relatively cool temperatures for this time of year.......until yesterday! We reached 31C yesterday and the humidex put temps closer to 40C. We had to be out of the house for 3 hours for another showing so we took our first spin of the year on our tandem bicycle. We enjoyed a nice 40 km ride out east and south of Orleans making sure we stopped for coffee in Navan on the way back. Riding with a tailwind was fabulous but we battled a pretty stiff headwind coming back. It was still a wonderful afternoon.
Sunday, we had no house showings thankfully. We decided to ride the bike again and headed into the Byward Market via the Eastern Parkway from Blackburn Hamlet. The Parkway is closed off to traffic every Sunday between Victoria Day and Labour Day, courtesy of Alcatel. We battled another headwind on our way into the Market but had a great tailwind on the way back. On the way in we received two requests for house showings. That meant we had to be out of the house and on the bike a little longer than we had planned. We decided to go to the Empire Grill in Byward Market and had a wonderful brunch sitting outside under the umbrellas watching all kinds of people wander by.
Then back on the bike so we could retrace our steps home. We were a little pooped going up the Bearbrook Hill into Blackburn Hamlet. We passed a fellow on a road bike before we started up the hill but he returned the favour as we crawled up the hill on our tandem. With my promise of an ice cold cappucino for Chris at Tim Horton's though, we managed to blow by him on the downhill into town. He tried to sprint and stay ahead of us, but it is pretty hard to stay ahead of heavy tandem with a full head of steam on a downhill. We all had a good laugh as we passed him again. Him included! 
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