Dena and I spent the Labour Day long weekend up in Sudbury. We went with my parents to visit my uncle Valerio and my aunt Norie, whom I haven’t seen for quite a while and I don’t get to see often. It was also Dena’s first time meeting them. We also took Dena to Science North, since she had never been there before. She was mostly interested in the flying squirrels and butterfly habitat and didn’t care too much for the robots and Segway, but she definitely had fun. She tasted her first glass of Northern Ale. It was also the first time in a while that she got to experience driving on northern Ontario highways that are built on top/around/through the Canadian Shield. We also had to visit Laurentian University because my dad wanted to see the newly-built medical school building. That university has become much larger since the last time I was on its campus.