Tuesday morning Lenks came by and we walked to the gelato place for a sandwich. I had a grilled panini with salami, roasted red chlies monterey jack cheese, and dijon mustard, She also had a sandwich. We also went to a grocery fruitstand and got an apple and an orange.

On the way back we spotted a car stopped at a stop sign and not moving. The people were lost. When we got near an elderly lady got out and asked us for help. She and her husband were looking for a church. A particular one and she told us she what thought  the denomination was.

There are two of those churches nearby, we said and started to describe their locations. She got confused by our directions. I offered to get in the car and we would find their church. Lenks had to go, so she left and I hopped in.

We went to the nearest church. That wasn’t it.

Then we turned to the other nearby one. That wasn’t it either.

We came in from a nearby town she told me. On your main street.

This one I asked. Our main street? Not that one. She eventually came up with the name. It wasn’t the main street.

Let’s go down to that street and we can retrace your steps.

They were coming into town to the church to play duplicate bridge. The venue had moved from the regular one.

There’s a park and I think a church by the park where we turn. I thought I knew where she meant now. It wasn’t a park, but a company. We turned down the street and passed where we first met them. By then I had learned their names, Audrey and Don. Now I knew which church they were going to too.

We just continued past where got in the car about 500 metres and got to the church.

Audrey stopped on the road and asked if I needed a ride back. I declined and said I only had a short walk.

Let us buy you a coffee then, everyone likes coffee, she said. Maybe you should pull into the parking lot, I said.

I didn’t argue further and took the four dollars. I will put it in my RRSP.

I ran in the Guelph Mercury Thanksgiving Day 10km race on Monday. I was concerned about it because I had recently overstrained my biceps femoris and didn’t want to further injure it.

It was a hot, hot day, not just hot for October, but absolutely hot, which makes it super hot for October. The race started in downtown Guelph we north near the Eramosa river, turned past Exhibition park and through some neighbourhoods and then back in.

It was just a 5 kilometre loop though so after the first time we had to keep going. That part was the hardest for me. I was worried about my leg and the heat was getting to me. Once I got to 8 kilometres I felt better and knew I could make it.

I came in just under 55 minutes, which is slower than I ran in the Sun Run, but people say it’s okay.

These pictures are me in the final stretch.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at Hiro and Dave’s. It was great.

Hiro, Dave, Dan, Ahmed, Morgan, Jordan, Erica, Mubi, and Melba, (and me, of course) were there. Mariano came by later when he got back from his Preston luncheon.

We had a 22 lb turkey, brussel sprouts, tomato salad, cheesy scalloped potatoes, gravy, country harvest bread, semolina artisan bread, apple pie, pumpkin pie, vanilla ice cream, and another pumpkin pie.

Melba told me on the hpone she would get an apple pie. When Jordan or someone heard that we wouldn’t have pumpkin pie some of the guys went to get one, or at least ingredients. They came back with a pumpkin pie and Melba eneded up bringing a pumpkin pie. The pies were okay, but I find store pumpkin pies way oversweetened.

Morgan brought two bottles of vin blanc: Yellow Tail and Little Penguin. We also had the Mission Hill cabernet merlot, that I brought.

We cooked and ate and talked.

At nine I had to take a conference call for an hour. Then I came back downstairs and the guys were playing some adventure video game that start6s with Z.

I started telling the guys some logic puzzles that I read recently and we solved them and talked.