It's Ontario's Family Day long weekend and the weather has been very kind to us. I take Erin and we wander around Acton near Robert Little Public School. The Acton Post Office is in the Federal Building and the coat of arms is shown above.

We see part of the old Acton City Hall building below. This is the balcony where the old mayor would have come out and issued his proclamations and increased taxes.

The line of historic Acton syndicate townhouses bask in the sun, much like they would have been in the old days of 1882. The satellite dish would have been made of wood and probably picked up only one or two channels - probably both would have been the CBC.

Wandering the fantastic grounds of the Robert Little Public School we come upon the preserved bell and old foundation block with the date of 1892.

With Family Day still bright and full of promise I decide to head into areas that we usually don't venture around although at first we stopped at Mohawk Raceway for a little gambling. As highrollers we bet $25 and ended up winning $49 so I thought we were off to a lucky day. Heading west along Highway 401 we looked at all the blue signs showing tourist attractions.

We found one sign that said Yee Haw Adventure Farm and we took the off ramp and set off to search for the farm. I had fun when we came to a traffic circle in Cambridge, Ontario (pictured above). I had to circle back because I took the wrong branch and then I did one extra circle before we broke to the right on Townline Road. Continuing our journey we followed many a blue tourist sign for the farm but we eventually lost the signs on Hamilton's Highway 97. As the afternoon was getting late and we had wasted quite a bit of time we decided to head back home. The signs didn't say but it looks like the farm is only open in the fall so it would have been disappointing if we had actually made it to Yee Haw.

Acton High School held their annual Yuk Yuks comedy night in support of the High School Band's upcoming trip to Montreal. Comedian John Ki is above and the headlining lady below - I can't remember her name and I can't find her on the web. She was a teacher from Calgary and now lives in Toronto. She looks like Sarah Palin with a fancy hairdo. They both did some great comedy and the host and Mike, a local and vocal teenager, traded quips all night.

One of Acton's favourite musicians - Robin Jupiter, peformed at the Mayor's Youth Action Committee's Coffee House at the Starlight Cafe. The event was full of talented performers playing before a packed house. Robin will be in a new band, which I believe will be called 'Wonder Works' and is looking forward to recording their first CD.