We toured the local area. We saw the old downtown and the Polish hall. Oshawa is quite multiethnic. In addition to a big Polish community, there are also Greek, Ukrainian, Caribbean, French Canadian and some other ethnic groups. Each of them has its own hall, in which they meet and celebrate their holidays, serve their ethnic foods and practice their traditional music and dances. Every year in June, there is a fiesta week, during which all the halls serve food and provide performances of ethnic dances. Andrew’s daughters, Olivia and Claudia, participated in a Polish dance group for many years. The town has a nice beach on the lake with a pier and a lovely, large lakefront park. We saw flock of Canadian geese as we were walking along the lakefront, not to mention lots of people who flocked there to enjoy the weekend and the gorgeous warm and sunny weather.
Their house is walking distance to Lake Ontario and there is a nice lake front walking/biking path that goes along the lake for miles and miles. In their backyard there is a plethora of flowers and fruit. We sampled raspberries, red and black currants, and gooseberries.
In the evening Bo’s cousin Les and family arrived. We had dinner for 10 outside on the deck. Polish is only spoken 5% of the time so Al is not left out.
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