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Great way to bring the kids out and explore! Get your passes while quantity last. I just got mine!

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Distillery District - Christmas Season

Bundle up for this outting. Great festival event with the kids to enjoy the outside and see the pretty lights. Great time to come here is during Christmas where there are tons of things to see and buy. There are lots of dining restaurants if hungry as well.

Parked along side the streets for free but entry was about $5 a person fee. You need to go line up into a building to get a ticket before lining up again outside to get in the distillery. They gave us all each a rednose toy to put on. Besides it being feeling cold, we had a fun family time spent.

Address:

55 Mill Street

Toronto, ON MSA 3C4

Cost: $20 for four of us

Great Wolf Lodge

We took the thanksgiving long weekend to enjoy this mini vacation. It was a one night from a Sunday to the Monday.
It took us approximately an hour from Toronto to Niagara Falls and check in was 3pm. We went with another family with a 6 years old girl so we got the suite that had an upstairs (total beds: 3 plus a pull out). The kids spent mostly at the indoor waterpark and stayed there saturday and also sunday. Although there were much more activities for the kids, we didn't get to it, it was also extra cost as well. We had a store credit to use at their gift shop for $25, which was neat. My daughter and son enjoyed it, especially my daughter who is constantly asking when are we going back there. We brought our own food so it helped us lower the cost of eating out. 

Will we go back? Absolutely! We are planning to revisit in 2017 and this time, we will try the other activities as well. 

Total cost for room: Approx. $600

Address: 

3950 Victoria Ave, Niagara Falls, ON L2E 7M8

Ikea Breakfast

If you're too lazy to make breakfast in the morning but don't want to spend so much money as well, ikea is the place to go before 11am. Breakfast is only $1 each and you get, two sausages, scrambled eggs and cut potatoes. Nice to get out on a nice sunny morning with the kids for breakfast. Have a nice walk around ikea right after breakast! Everyone will enjoy something! :)

Dutch Dreams Ice cream - Summer

What do you do on a hot summer afternoon where the temperature reaches mid 30 degrees? Head out to the best ice cream in town!

We'd always wonder why there's always a long line up at dutch and decided today it was time to try it out.

There were so many ice cream and cone selections! People were walking out with tower size ice creams and sweet toppings. It was amazing at how delicious it looked! Each of us tried different flavours and while the kids got cotton candy as their topping, I had my favorite whipped cream.

I think I had a fun time just looking at all the different ice cream every customer got.

The prices were decent and not too overboard and the ice cream was delicious!

I guess you'll see us lining up next time!

Total cost:
$19.18 (4 ice creams)

Dutch Dreams
36 Vaughan Rd.
Toronto, ON

T&T Night Market - summer

Kids love staying up at night? Well, they deserve it, for summer that is.

Tonight, we headed out to T&T Night Market where there were a variety of Asian food choices. There were live entertainment, music and the place was packed! They had a juggler, a stage with live music and a basketball court for those who want to shoot some hoops.

The foods were overpriced. We got a potato swirl on a stick for $7 each and my daughter didn't like it. She said it tasted horrible, so I tried it and yes, it was in fact tasted disgusting. It was cold, dry and tasteless. We ended up throwing it out in the garbage. We also tried the squid which the smell was delicious but the taste didn't match up.

Besides the horrible and overpriced food, we had fun walking around and checking out each booth to see what it entails.

Will my kids want to go back? I must sadly say, they wouldn't want to go back. But at least they enjoyed staying out late.

Cold drinks: $20
Potato swirl: $7 each
Grilled squid: $8 each
Corn: $10/ 3 corn
Toy: $12
Rose: $5

T&T Night Market
185 Cherry St.
Toronto

Rock Point provincial park

Another summer filled with camp trips at different Provincial Parks. Today we head to Rock Point campsite where the scenery fits for the park name. Along the beach with a beautiful shore filled with shells along side with hard rock floor beneath our feet. There must be big fish to catch as we also cross by some not so nice view of huge dead fish. Certain areas came with strong smell from the rotten fish. Other than that, we were able to see a light house from a far and watch the sunset in the west.

Our campsite #72 was pretty small and not much privacy as it was right at the corner of a busy intersection. It was close to the amenities, like the washroom and shower station which was pretty convenient for the kids. It was also filled with spiders, HUGE ones! There were a few mosquitos but none of us was bitten. The store wasnt close by, so we had to drive there. It was close to the beach and park area. We didnt have marshmellow sticks and unfortunately the store did not carry a cheap one that we wanted. If you need one, its $9 and huge. After staying there for a night, we head out the next day to the village for some breakfast. There was only one store we found that had breakfast called, "Flyers bakery and cafe". We didnt get our food until an hour later, which was kind of disappointing. We didnt have much of a choice but to wait, since it was the only breakfast in town.

After breakfast, we headed out to the Grand river to fish. There was a marine area to also fish but it cost $15 for a whole day, so we passed and went along the river side to fish for free. There was parking and in 2 hours, we caught 3 small fish.

We headed along Guyatt rd to drop by "Murphys country produce ltd" to do some raspberry picking. We chose the $4 a basket to fill it with raspberries. There was another basket, a bit bigger, for $7. There were other fruits and veggies to pick but we only did the raspberries.

Overall, the kids enjoyed the weekend trip to Dunnville city. Hope everyone would have as much fun as we did!

Campsite: $78

Breakfast: $31

Raspberry picking: $8

Trip cost: $117

Murphy' Country Produce Ltd.

2040 Guyatt rd.

Binbrook, ON 

905-692-5733