Well, I've had a busy past week with lots of family stuff to do. Randy, my cousin from Vancouver came for a visit the past weekend. He came with the purpose of getting out and seeing Toronto and just getting to know his cousins and aunts and uncles in Toronto. Here's a quick summary of my week with Randy in Toronto.

On Sunday we took a "Long Lunch" in some small town called Warksworth, or something like that. It's an anual thing for this town where they set up a long table and cook up a bunch of food. Unfortunately it was raining that day, and we didn't partake in the long lunch and went to a diner instead. Oh well. On our way back, we stopped by at the Big Apple for some delicious apple pie. We had a big family dinner with all my aunts and uncles that night. Monday I had a bonus day at the beach playing beach volleyball with Allan. Got back and took Randy and my other cousins to Dave and Busters for dinner and games. Afterwards we got gelato. Tuesday we spent the day at Wonderland, where I forced Randy to go on all the rides. It was more than just peer pressure, I literally made him go on the rides. But, he didn't actually complain at all, and I think it was good for him. Wednesday all us cousins got together for a little bowling and dessert. A little disappointing because I didn't win at bowling, but I had some pretty stiff competition with my cousins. Thursday we didn't do much except play some tennis/basketball and head over to my cousins to play some games.

Friday I had to say goodbye to my cousin, because Allan and his friends (Jamie, Lotus, Vicky, and Colin) and I were headed to Ottawa for some white water rafting. The plan was to spend some time in Ottawa on Friday, stay over at the rafting place Friday night, raft for two days, and come back on Sunday night. Rafting was so much fun. On Saturday we did the 12 man boat which was a lot of fun, but I already did 12 man rafting before, so it wasn't anything too special. Sunday we got to try the 6 man boat. The 6 man boat was a lot more fun than the 12. It's just a lot bumpier and a bit tougher than the 12, and it's so much fun when the raft flips. It's just a mad scramble to get back into the raft, and it's not too dangerous so it's fine. There was one moment that was kind of scary when Allan fell out of the raft during one of the rapids. He was just going down stream, and he was just getting further and further away from the boat and it seemed like there was nothing we could do to catch him. Well, eventually the rapids slowed down, and another boat managed to pick him up, but the rapids are pretty strong, and at the moment it was actually kind of scary. It was a really fun and exhausting weekend though