I Spoke Too Soon

Well, I'm happy to say that I spoke too soon, June isn't so boring after all.

On Tuesday, Curt and I both ended up with the day off. It was my scheduled day off, and Curt had an doctors appointment in Peterborough that afternoon, so he just took the whole day off. And, we took advantage of it!

We planned on doing some shopping downtown Peterborough, checking out some of the different shops and stuff, but didn't end up with a lot of time because we made a few stops along the way.

Our first stop was at the 'sales barn' in Hoards Station. This is something Curt has wanted to take me to for years, but it's not something we would go out of our way to do. But, Tuesday is sales day, and when we realized, it was obvious that we were going to have to stop. So, what is this place you ask. Well, it's a place for farmers to come together to auction off their livestock. Are you laughing yet?!? Curt has actually been there before, as a child, during an auction. His parents used to raise random animals...a horse at one point, and cow that they later took to a butcher. They had a little flea market type thing set up in the parking lot, so we browsed around it first. There was a farmer there selling all types of baby ducks and geese, they were just crammed on top of each other in boxes, and this little boy got away from his mom, ran to the box and reached right in and pulled out one of the little ducks. It was hilarious to see...and as I walked away I commented to Curt that the boy is clearly being raised on a farm, I just can't picture Nolan being comfortable enough to grab one of the little things like the boy did.

Next, we were going right through Campbellford, so we had to stop at World's Finest Chocolate. Always worth the stop and we probably have enough chocolate in the house to last a few weeks now!

We ended up rushing up and down the main street in Peterborough, only going into one store. We stopped at a neat pub for lunch, and then it was on to Curt's appointment.

The appointment was short, so from there it was off to Pontypool (a little place south-west of Peterborough) to play golf. We played Black Diamond Golf Club - I found their website and they had a great price, so that's how we chose the course. We were matched up with a single on the first hole, and although he was nice enough to play with, I didn't really enjoy the slow pace he insisted on playing at.

It was tough! The first hole was a LONG and intimidating par 5. The whole front nine was wide open and relatively flat, but the back nine was completely different, lots of trees and dog legs. I didn't enjoy the back nine because of the number of holes where you couldn't see where you were going...even when making my second shot I often couldn't see the pin. The other thing I didn't like was the fairways, they weren't flat, they had these huge slopes...so, you hit a decent drive, but your ball ended up rolling down these slopes, putting you in the rough. It was a beautiful day though, and it was great to have the time off with Curt.