This morning we made our getaway. It was a 5 km run in the River Valley in support of Cops With Cancer. It was fun- the idea was, everyone was supposed to dress like an escaped con. Only thing was, Michelle and I were the only ones who did! But that's okay, we won the Running Room gift cards for best costumes. It was a good time.

Then a friend of Michelle called us up and invited us to go to a book reading. Kenneth Oppel, whom I had only vaguely heard of, was in town reading from his new book Darkwing. So even though we've never read him, we thought it would be interesting to go- especially since Michelle as a grade 7 teacher has marked umpteen million book reports on Silverwing and others of his books. I'm glad we went- he was a charming and personable guy and I think I will really enjoy his books- we bought all the Wing books, which are about bats. Should be cool!