Happy Thanksgiving!
Today I have two things to tell you about.
The first is an update about our new house. Since it was one year ago today that we first signed the purchase papers, we thought it would be fitting to go take some pictures of the building status and share them with you. For those that don't know, the initial closing date was March 14th 2007 and it is now delayed until May 3rd. Apparently our unit is a fire block in the neighbourhood so it can't be built until the houses on both side have been framed and bricked. While the delay sucks, it's probably better. It gives us some extra time to save more for closing costs and also hopefully the weather for moving will be better (so this is your first warning - we will need your help around that date for moving!). Anyhow it would seem like they have started to lay the foundations for our townhouse. I wanted to post some pictures for you but blogger doesn't seem to want to do that tonight so I will try again tomorrow.
The next stop on our road trip was Mount Pleasent Cemetery in Toronto. I know, you’re thinking what the heck could they be doing there? Well, some of you will know that I have been working on my family tree. And since some of my family are buried there I wanted to go check it out. And we thought it might be neat to see if there were any geocaches in the area that we could do while we were there. If you have never been to this cemetery, let me tell you - it is huge. My Dad had given me an idea of where to start looking for the family plot. But after an hour of searching one part of the cemetery we decided to give up for today, get some more information we would come back another day. So off to the geocache. This cache was not a physical one to find, more of a mental challenge based on information found on some of the gravestones in the cemetery. So we drove way across the cemetery to the other side where the co-ordinates of the gravestones for the cache were supposed to be and start looking for them. And then the freakiest thing happened. I looked up and there it was...the family plot, or at least one of them I guess. I didn't see my great grandparents, but I did find my great, great grandparents and great, great, great grandparents and other family members from that generation. Right beside the gravestones for the cache....coincidence or fate? Definitely a little freaky if you ask me!!
The next stop on our road trip was Mount Pleasent Cemetery in Toronto. I know, you’re thinking what the heck could they be doing there? Well, some of you will know that I have been working on my family tree. And since some of my family are buried there I wanted to go check it out. And we thought it might be neat to see if there were any geocaches in the area that we could do while we were there. If you have never been to this cemetery, let me tell you - it is huge. My Dad had given me an idea of where to start looking for the family plot. But after an hour of searching one part of the cemetery we decided to give up for today, get some more information we would come back another day. So off to the geocache. This cache was not a physical one to find, more of a mental challenge based on information found on some of the gravestones in the cemetery. So we drove way across the cemetery to the other side where the co-ordinates of the gravestones for the cache were supposed to be and start looking for them. And then the freakiest thing happened. I looked up and there it was...the family plot, or at least one of them I guess. I didn't see my great grandparents, but I did find my great, great grandparents and great, great, great grandparents and other family members from that generation. Right beside the gravestones for the cache....coincidence or fate? Definitely a little freaky if you ask me!!
posted by Scott and Steph @ 8:37 PM
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2 Comments:
Do I hear Twilight Zone music?
That's just plain freaky!
That IS freaky! Same sort of thing happened to me once: I was looking for a particular gravestone, went to the general area I thought it was in, started walking, and felt I should stop. I looked down, and there it was!
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