Showing posts with label trip to Costco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trip to Costco. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

A Trip to Costco

The Ridge

On Tuesday, July 30th, with an assumed ‘true-to-written word’ forecast of rain for most of the day, we followed through with our plans to drive to Guelph’s Costco. At this time, we like to start stocking up on those elite items (food and otherwise) that we can’t find in the states. The list got longer as yesterday went on!

Good morning!

We slept in though until about 7:30, got up and were ready to leave shortly after 8 am. It is just over an hour to our destination. The rain hadn’t started although it was cloudy for most of the journey. We shopped until we dropped, (or were broke) and before coming home, Bill gave me directions to the Kitchener airport. I will be picking Andrew and Robin up from there in the middle of August. It is easy to find.

We arrived at Costco 15 minutes after opening.

Because we wouldn’t be home until close to 1, we stopped in Fergus at the A & W for lunch. Pig out time! We each had the Uncle combo, his with fries and mine with onion rings. Of course, accompanied by a diet A & W root beer. We were back in Durham, fueling up Ptooties by 1:15 and home soon after. It was a good haul and we were prepared for the expense of it. It’s only money, right? 😊

Uncle burger with onion rings
and diet root beer.
Very filling!

By the time groceries were all tucked away, we were worn out. It only rained for the last 15 minutes of our journey and then continued once we were tucked inside. I won’t have to water my plants tonight. I noticed as we pulled out this morning that I had 4 or 5 moonflowers blooming but, of course, by the time we returned, they were done. Too bad, they’re beautiful.

4 blooms today and 4 ready in the next
day or two.

No watering today and
I'm beginning to see some colour in the cherry tomato
department. 😄

We crashed in our chairs, all 3 of us, Gibbs had security detail while we were gone. Tough jobs. I made some Peanut Butter Rice Krispie squares because I inherited a full bag of marshmallows a week ago. We’ll have to eat them slowly; they are not good for us AT ALL! 😊 I chatted a bit with Patty and Duncan and it is good to know that they are now at their park in North Bay, safe and sound again.


Bill got a lot of our spare wood cut up
and cleaned up a big mess.

For supper, we had toasted tomato, lettuce and cheese sandwiches. A Rice Krispie square for dessert. I’ll cut them small. We didn’t have enough dishes to run the dishwasher and it wasn’t even worth putting water in the sink, so other than to-go cups for morning, the rest can wait. 

Large marshmallows

Peanut butter rice krispie squares

This has been a good but mostly inside day, not because of the rain but because of the 98% humidity. It got up to 25C/78F. We spoiled ourselves by staying in the a/c and going over travel insurance options.

We only needed a small supper.
Too much bread for me today!!

Good night!

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