Thursday, July 24, 2008

Small World

We just had 4 over-night visitors from Ottawa. We were expecting them, although we only knew Derek Tam was coming along with 3 friends. They came across yesterday from Bar Harbor on The Cat and arrived in Lockeport at about 5:00PM. Wayne's friend, Phil Sanchez, was already here.

The 3 friends turned out to be Marc-Andre, Susannah and Jodi. As we gave the pre-dinner house tour so they could select rooms, Susannah stopped in the dining-room, looking at pictures of our boys and said she went to school with Tim. Then she said "you lived on Pleasant Park". She turned out to be Susie Kelly who grew up kitty-corner from my parent's house on Portal, in a house I knew well from my own child-hood. She knew lots of our family's friends like the Thomases and assorted classmates of our sons.

Then we discovered that Marc-Andre Poitras works at CMHC with friends of Wayne and Phil who both worked there for many years. Jodi Connolly's uncle worked with Wayne and Phil too.

Ottawa is nearly as small as Lockeport (Haha)!

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