Sounds like a bad movie title…actually it’s our 11-year old niece Midori, from BC. She was interested in coming out to visit this summer; we said “Sure! A week would be great!” Seems that due to the way the AirMiles worked out, she’s coming for — gulp — 12 days, which is fine, but it’s a lot longer than a week!! (Time to rack the ol’ brains for ways to entertain a preteen…)

She says she’s looking forward to visiting Canada’s Wonderland, which initially puzzled me–she knows about Canada’s Wonderland?–but apparently Wonderland advertises nationwide and so it’s considered a Big Thing for kids across the country (okay, maybe everyone else knows this, but as someone who doesn’t have a kid ride-junkie, I plead ignorance!)