Great day — it didn’t really start until around lunch time. Jenn and I walked downtown to the Ottawa International Chicken and Pork BBQ Competition — otherwise known as the Pork Festival! We checked out ten or so stands of folks from all over North America and decided to participate at Bibb’s Ribs. We got two big pulled pork sandwiches, which are buns filled with shredded (pulled?) pork and BBQ sauce. Mmm-mmm!
Unfortunately, the rain had started by this time and we were without umbrellas. The plan was to walk to the market and then to Jenn’s sisters place (to return her pie plate and two pieces of the best strawberry-rhubarb (and nectarine) pie I’ve ever had — and Jenn didn’t think she could bake a pie!) But, we decided to head it home instead — in the rain. And wouldn’t you know it, as soon as we got home, it stopped raining.
We drove over to Jenn’s sisters to drop off the pie and plate and then went down to Westboro to pop into the MEC. I got a snazzy new bike computer and set it up when we got home. After fiddling for a half an hour I took it out for a test drive. I found that the walk we normally do in the evenings was not just over 5km like I had figured from a small map of the area, but 5.65km. This computer measures current speed, average speed, distance (trip and overall) max speed, weather you are accelerating or slowing down, and it even has a little guy on a bike with his wheels spinning. It’s lots of fun and very motivational — as in, I’ve got to get my speed up so I can have a higher average speed.
Oh yeah, one last thing, we had some friends over for dinner on Friday night and not only did we discover that they’ve got one of the best behaved babies we’ve met (sorry to everyone who has children that we didn’t have over on Friday night) but we discovered that we had all gone out an bought selected boxes of Kellogg’s cereal just to get the step counter! (How many steps to church AC?)
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