Summer is upon us! Since our summer months are quite short, Canadians do take advantage of the fine weather and try to enjoy the outdoor as much possible, young and old!
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| We travelled on a chartered bus to St. Jacobs, Ontario |
A couple of weeks ago, we went on a day trip organized by COTM for seniors and visited St. Jacobs.
COTM chartered a coach and it was filled to the capacity
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| St. Jacobs' Farmers Market, Ontario |
St Jacobs is a town about an hour's drive from Toronto.
The St. Jacobs Farmers' Market is the largest of its kind in Canada.
We have been there numerous times but my mother has never visited this market so we brought along to this trip.
Besides fresh fruits, vegetables and farm products, there are lots to see at the St. Jacobs' Farmers' Market.
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| Decorated rocks for sale at the Farmers' Market |
Our favourite things to see are always the arts and crafts items.
The crafts booths and gift shop items kept us busy looking at the market.
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| The Blooming Onion Platter |
There is never a lack of tasty and new food to try at the Farmers' Market.
On the day of our visit, we found something new. This Blooming Onion Platter included one large onion served with one pound of wings at $14.95.
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| The Olde Heidelberg Restaurant, Heidelberg, Ontario |
The schedule of this outing for seniors was full.
After our hour long visit to the farmers' market, the chartered bus took us to the Olde Heidelberg, a nearby restaurant and tavern frequented by locals and tourists.
This restaurant was established in 1860 and has been serving its famous German dish, Smoked Pork Hock since.
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| A fun outing organized by the COTM people |
There were fifty of us in our tour group and we were seated in a separate dining room on the second floor of the restaurant.
We were all there eager to taste the restaurant's most famous dish.
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| A generous serving of smoked pork hock dinner |
Though we have been going to Waterloo monthly for the past decade, we never dined at this restaurant until this trip.
The pork hock serving was generous!
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| My Mom enjoyed the dinner |
It tasted much better than we had expected. Even my mom could enjoy her meal as the meat was tender and it was not salty at all.
We all enjoyed this famous German dish and many came prepared with their iceboxes to order some to take home to their families.
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| West Montrose, Ontario |
After lunch, we continued our outing and visited other attractions in the area.
We arrived at the West Montrose village in Waterloo.
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| The Bridge Place Gift Shop at West Montrsoe, Waterloo County |
There was a nice gift shop with an old canoe filled with flowers.
Unfortunately, it was closed for lunch when we were there so we could not go in to visit.
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| The Kissing Bridge - West Montrose, Ontario |
Our main purpose being in the area was to visit an Ontario historic site where a special old bridge is located.
We visited the West Montrose Covered Bridge, also known as the Kissing Bridge to the locals.
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| Entrance to the West Montrose Covered Bridge |
Built in 1881 with mostly oak and white pine, the Kissing Bridge is the last remaining wooden covered bridge in Ontario.
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| The only remaining covered bridge left in Ontario |
Having survived all kinds of harsh elements in the past 137 years, the bridge has become a popular place for lovers to pop the question under.
Afterwards, we visited the Picards peanut store.
Numerous variety of peanuts were in stock and samples were available for visitors.
Customers were looking for their favourite chocolates and flavoured peanuts.
My Mom was busy sampling and looking for her favorite peanut snack in the store.
After the visit to the peanut store, our next and final stop was the Toronto Premium Outlet Mall in Milton. We spent about an hour there and I got a really nice brand name purse at 70% off!
We had a fun day of activities in and around the St. Jacobs area. What made us happy was my 92 year old mother was able to enjoy the trip and had a good time too!
R.T.
St. Jacobs Area
Waterloo County, Ontario
June 28, 2018
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