Lennon and Maisy

This is amazing. I don't care what you say. Enjoy one behalf of me...

You're welcome.

OH CANADA!!!

Here we are. We are here. In Canada. It is absolutely beautiful. This marks the beginnings of our adventures that will be taking place this summer. I am hopeful that I will be able to keep up and post as much as I can so that those who care to follow along can get a glimpse into Turkey and what it will be like for us. Some news on that first, Ayse told me that while we are in Turkey, her family and friends will throw us a turkish wedding. SOOOOO Excited for this! Also, we will be traveling for a week on a boat and we will be traveling the coast and go from port to port to experience all the different cultures and parts of turkey! We couldn't feel more lucky or more blessed to be able to be doing this trip.  We are so excited for everything. 

For now, we are in Canada enjoying relaxing and just being around family and friends that we haven't had any time to spend with before. The weather here has been really great and we have been outside quite a bit. We got here on Sunday the 20th of May and we landed around 2 pm. The flights were fairly exhausting since we went to bed the night before around 1 am and had to wake up around 3 am in order to make it to our 5:30 am flight. After we were settled in John's parents home, good family friends, the Diaczun's, came over to have dinner with us and celebrate our long awaited arrival. It is so great to get to know them better. They have been long time friends, long enough that they consider each other family. John doesn't have much family. Both of his dad's parents have passed away and his dad only had a sister and she has passed away too. John's mom's family all lives in Turkey and so they only see each other once a year if that. (Soon I get to meet them too!) So the Diaczun's have willingly filled the Hitchins void for family which can help you understand my desire to get to know them better. 

There are quite a few families that John's family has adopted as family. It is lucky that they know such great people and are close enough to be able to call them family. It is a joy to get to know them and the more that I do get to know them, the more I am able to see why we call them family. 

The next day (Monday) was a holiday here in Canada, "Victoria Day"... obviously we do not have that in the states. haha. But it made up for not having memorial day here in Canada. So we again got together with the Diaczun's and went to a local park. It was SOOOO wonderful! We just had a picnic and sat around playing catch, frisbee, and taking naps. Really good times were had. Below are some photos of the park and us throughout the day.

Cam on the left (Part of the Diaczun clan) and Ross (john's dad on the right)

Beautiful Mallory (Diaczun)

Steve one the left and Jill on the right (both Diaczun)

Ayse (John's mom) and Penny (Diaczun)

You should know who we are...

This beautiful park! Did I mention it was right on the edge of Lake Ontario?? 

John and his dad trying to get the kite going... sadly there was not enough wind.

It was beautiful

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Then at one point we got together with some of John's good friends Ben and Brittany and Brittany and Kyle and they introduced me to some good Canadian treats! The first one was Tim Hortons which is considered a bakery, I think. It has delicious donuts and "Timbits", which are essentially glorified donut holes.

Me with Timbits and Peach Drink

Brittany (just about to have a baby boy!), me and Brittany!

Then they introduced me to this thing called a "Poutine". It is a bowl of french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds. As weird as it sounded, it was delish! Hopefully, I can get some more of this before we leave~

Brittany and I gettin ready to chow down on our Poutine's

THE Poutine

Later on that evening, we decided to have a BBQ out in the Backyard. We grilled up some burgers and made a salad and green beans. Earlier that day John had set up the patio furniture so we wanted to eat out on that. It was nice other than the mosquitos!

John and Ben

DINNER! Yum! (John, Ben, Kyle, Brittany, and Brittany)

Then on Sunday (Yesterday) John and I along with Nate and Emily drove up to Kyle and Brittany's and they made us "Panda Express" (They don't have it here in Canada). It was absolutely delicious! To be more direct, it was BETTER than Panda Express. haha And plus the company kept was wonderful!

Kyle on the left (Making his yummy cookies), me, John, Nate, and Emily.

So thats it for now, until next time!