Winners - sometimes worth the trip

I wandered into Winners today to look at the purses as mine is about to fall apart. One of the straps is holding by a thread, I figured I'd upgrade before it fell apart on me. 

While waiting in line to pay, in their redesigned lure all clients into a long line and put junk all along that long line to get them to spend more, I realized they were selling boxes of Larabars for $15. Yes. Sixteen Larabars for $15. This is better then Costco that sells you 12 for $13. 

The best part is they had numerous boxes of banana, which tastes just like banana bread. I've been whining that I haven't been able to find Banana ones in a month at health food stores and somehow Winners is liquidating them?  I bought 4 boxes, two banana, 1 peanut butter and jelly and 1 tropical fruit. At that price it's a steal. Individual larabars sell as much as $2.15 at Tau and $1.79 at Healthtree, but neither have a very good selection.

Other then that  I was puzzled today. I ended up shopping a bit at Cote-Vertu Mall - which was decrepit and pitiful last time I was there, but got a face lift and is much better now. I was exploring and usually when I go shopping alone, other then clerks trying to sell, no one ever talks to me. Today I'm not sure why, but I had several patrons asking me if the colours matched, if the outfit looked nice etc. 

Something else amusing me, I went to Future shop yesterday to pick up a hard disk they had on sale, but  they were all out at the Pointe-Claire branch. The girl seeing my utter disappointment, looked up if the two nearest store had any in stock. The Cote-Vertu one did, so hence my trip towards Cote-Vertu. I buy the 2TB drive for $99.

It's supposed to be WDBAAY0020HNC-NRSN, which is what the box says. If you open it, the hard disk itself says WD20EARX - which is the one I wanted to buy originally but could not be shipped/sold in Quebec because there is no French.   The amusing part is I wanted to look up WDBAAY0020HNC-NRSN on the Western Digital site but could not find the model what so ever.  Now I understand. This the product code for the WD20EARX to be sold in Quebec with a bilingual box. :) 

Either way I now have a  Western Digital 2TB SATA drive for my main machine and I also splurged and got a 2.5 TB external USB drive also for $99.   This way I will be able to lug lots of content and also keep backups

Craigleith and Wassaga Beach Provincial Parks.

I recently had opportunity to go camping in Ontario, on the shores of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, at Craigleith Provincial Park. It was beautiful. Sadly spending 2 nights was not nearly enough, we will have to go back at some point.

What brought me there, was that I was going to see my eldest daughter graduate from her Navy boot camp on June 24th, at CFB Borden. It's far enough from Montreal, that we had to spend the night and I checked out the area and figured it might be nice to camp on the edge of Lake Huron. It was and we were about 1 hour away from Borden where we stayed. I was very pleased that I got to see my daughter march and graduate.

We also went to Wasaga Beach Provincial park to check out the beach since at the campground, the waterfront was all in shale, and not a place recommended for swimming. We were at Wasaga Beach when the tornado struck Midland, Ontario on June 23rd. We even saw some funnel looking clouds at the distance...

On a different topic when we arrived in Wasaga Beach provincial park we were given a variety pack of Larabars and they are great. Big thanks to Park Ontario for that! I can actually eat them and not get a spike in sugar. Many flavours very yummy. Well the only one I cannot eat is the one with cocoa in it and the boys tell me that the coconut gives it a weird taste but I digress... I was thrilled to find that the Loblaws in Kirkland carries Larabars. They also carry them at Health tree but in individual bars only.