Man what a hectic weekend!  It started bright and early on Saturday morning as Brandon and I drove to London ON so I could pick up a Canon RF 70-200 F2.8L IS USM lens.  Yes I’ve decided to go back to the extending RF lens. During our Eastern Canada trip in the summer, carrying the EF 16-35, EF 70-200 & RF 100-500 lenses all at the same time (with the RF 24-70 on the body) was a huge pain and I felt it every night when we got back to the hotel.  Yes I’m one of those people who carry everything because I never know what I might want to use.  Anyway going back to the RF will save me roughly a pound of weight and now that I carry a rain cover in my backpack, I’m not as worried about inclement weather as I was before.

In the afternoon the Cub scouts went for a hike in the Oak Ridges Moraine and it was a lot of fun!

We hiked for about 2 1/2 hours, covered ~7km during that time and climbed some rather tall hills.  It wasn’t so bad and I’m glad I didn’t have any problems as I’m out of shape.

Yesterday I picked up a new Arcteryx Beta goretex jacket, my previous jacket was just fine but I like to layer up and picked up a large so I can put thicker layers in between.  In the afternoon we went to celebrate Simone’s birthday (it’s actually today) and she turned 2!  Ahh what a cute and wonderful age…

I always enjoy family gatherings and seeing how cute the little ones are.  Poor Brandon, as he gets older there are less photos of him at these things but that’s alright he was off in his own world playing games.

Yeah and that’s it, very hectic but enjoyable weekend Sunday night I felt I needed a break from my weekend but alas no it’s back to work and for the weekly grind.