Posts Tagged ‘Festival of Lights’

Day #356 – Peterborough, ON

July 22, 2009

Last night after settling in we walked uptown to a restaurant that one of the dock masters had recommended, Hot Belly Mama’s.  It was a New Orleans style menu and quite good.  We walked right up the main street to get there and passed this amusing window display.

Would you hire any of them to do a singing telegram???

They have a beautiful river walk which we took on the way home and stopped for a photo op.

For the first time we had a day with nothing we had to do which was glorious.  We slept in, walked, shopped, cleaned, cooked and explored town.

The people in this town are unbelievably friendly and helpful.  They are preparing for their Festival of Lights Concert in the park tonight.  Tonight Town Pants will perform, they are a “West Coast Celtic” style band.

The band shell, which is in the park right next to the marina is set up

and their grounds are manicured.

I went to have some copies made in their local print shop, Package Plus, and Bruce was extremely helpful and informative.  His company is a sponsor for the concerts and wanted to assure that we had a great time.  He gave us four VIP tickets to enjoy the show.  We look forward to tonight and have really enjoyed our time in Peterborough.

Footnote:  We had a great time and the concert was terrific!  Thank you Bruce, our seats were fantastic.