Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Fun with The Vanilla Bean Baker!

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So how much fun did I have in Perth?????  Well I had a ton of fun.  The girls and I packed up all our stuff after our visit in Ottawa and headed to Perth, a speck of a town in Eastern Ontario.  It’s a gorgeous little town that I had only ever driven through to get to Ottawa from Toronto when not driving the dreaded 401 highway.

Miss Paula invited all of us to come for dinner and stay the night.  Sadly Rob couldn’t join us because he had to get back to reality and go to work, so the girls and I accepted her invitation.  We had a fabulous time.

We didn’t bake but we did eat a ton of food!  Paula may talk about baking on her blog, but the lady can cook!  She may have made a titch too much food, but that’s ok!  We also got to meet her fabulous husband Ron, yes he does exist LOL! (he wasn’t there last visit)

Abby and Rowan were great and had a blast playing with Paula.  They went on a rabbit hunt with the lion catchers, we had a fire pit and roasted marshmallows (which they didn’t eat, they just wanted to burn) and the next morning they went swimming in the Tay River in their clothes.  I had a couple of really tired kids when we left!

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After Paula took us around the pretty little town, we dropped her at home and said our goodbyes. Hoping that it wouldn’t be as long between visits.  I decided to take the girls to McD’s for lunch and as we were in the lineup for the drive-thru there was a tap at the window.  It was Paula holding two packages she had forgotten to give us.  One for the girls and one for Rob.  Yup cookies.  Perth is that small that she found us pretty easily.

Check out these amazing cookies and they taste as good as they look.

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It’s a giant cookie that looks like a beach ball and had the province of Ontario in the centre and the red, white and blue of the US.  All the little dots in the yellow are our stops on our vacation.  How cool is that!

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And for Rob, Senators cookies.  He may or may not get to eat any depending on whether I can stop my dad or the girls from eating them after the beach ball has been demolished.

Thank you Paula, we had a blast.  It was fabulous getting to know you better and yes, she is as sweet in person as she is online!

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Thanks for looking!