I started out in July by working on Canada Day but then flying out to Vancouver for the Independence day long weekend. I have family in Vancouver, and others flying in from Calgary and HK so it was sort of a family reunion. I didn’t end up taking as many pictures as I should have (I end up taking a lot more pictures on my own vacation), and we didn’t really do vacation-y stuff either. However, we had four full days with everyone as we flew back on a red-eye on Sunday.

The next week, work decided that I had to go to Korea for meetings so there was a few days of scrambling around. Then, just as suddenly, my trip got cancelled. To be honest, it’s for the better. The last 2 months have been an endless cycle of packing and unpacking between travelling for pleasure and travelling for work. At the same time we’re still building out our deck and had some visitors in town.

Luckily the second half of the month was much calmer and we were able to get back into a routine. The deck is almost done and we started thinking about patio furniture – unfortunately we seemed to have missed the clearance sales as they happen just before Canada Day. The weather started getting too hot to go outside anyways as Toronto was hit by 2 heat waves at the end of the month with temperatures in the mid thirties after humidex.

Toronto hosted the Pan Am games this month but there wasn’t a lot of impact to us. We saw some of the events on TV and benefited from having more HOV lanes around the city (although the main stretch of 401 that we would use did not have them). Canada seemed to win an inordinate amount of medals though. I’m not sure if it’s because of home-field advantage/enthusiasm or because we deployed our best athletes but the other countries only brought ones who could fit it into their schedule.

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