Monday, December 12, 2011

Yesterday, Sunday, was a glorious day yet again. Lots of blue skies and sunshine, so Lyn took me a little further afield. She was on her way to Costco, the supermarket at Kitchener. I know we now have at least one store in Oz, but I haven't been before, and a Sunday just a couple of weeks before Christmas is not really the time to go, but we got there and with lots of others trawled the aisles. It's called buying in BULK, great if you have lots of storage room.
Aside form that it gave me the opportunity to see a little of the countryside in the daylight. It's very flat around the Wellington and Waterloo districts, with a lot of agriculture. The fields have all been ploughed  ready for the spring season. There is a large Mennonite presence in the area and it was for me, fascinating to see the horses and buggies out and about as we drove by, especially those all covered in with tail lights and indicators brightly lit on the back.
Lynne at the West Montrose Covered Bridge
We stopped by the West Montrose Covered Bridge, the only remaining covered bridge in Ontario and built in 1881, and then had a brief stop in St Jacobs, now a very popular tourist town, but what was originally a Mennonite village. The quaint shops and mills have been restored and now are filled with galleries, and other tourist  shops. I am hoping to get back and spend a lot more time there including the Mennonite Museum and the Farmer's Market - I just love markets.








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