The Sault Greyhounds!!

So the family did a little weekend excursion and went to Runway Park to watch 'Wheels on Ice' and look who we ran into. The Sault Greyhounds! They were very good sports and let us take a picture of with the kids, and the dad! Thanks guys!

o canada - an original

Here is Ethan doing his own version of O' Canada

Needles

How many times can a person be stuck with a needle in matter of only a few weeks?! Well I'll tell ya, too many! I was going to start complain to a friend the other day about all the 'shots' I need just to go to another country when I realized that I was taking these inoculations for granted.  Yesterday I had to pay for my Hep A, $60 for the needle and $11 labour to stick me with it. This, I thought, is a little bit of money I would rather have put into something else, like new shoes. Then it donned on me that this one shot is a life saving serum in so many other countries.The $71 dollars it cost me means nothing to me, but it means a chance at life for some others in this world.  I sleep well at night knowing that my family is all 'shot up' with every vaccine made available to us in Canada. But what if they weren't. What if my son stepped on a nail while playing hockey in the driveway and ended up dieing because of Tetanus, a very preventable disease. What if...