I am finally home after a whirlwind week of visits to northern Ontario as part of the OLA Forest of Reading celebrations. Orest flew me to Parry Sound on Sunday night. Here’s a video of us getting ready:
I shared a room with Silver Birch Express nominee, Natalie Hyde. The next day, along with fellow nominees Brit and Kari Trogen, Wesley King, Bill Swan, Evan Munday, Janet Wilson and Steve Pitt we did a dizzy spin of workshops, presentations and signings.
Then Janet Wilson and I loaded into Natalie’s car and headed up the highway to North Bay to do it all over again on Tuesday and Wednesday.
My husband Orest picked Janet and I up at the North Bay airport via Charlie (our little airplane). For the occasion, he dressed in captain’s garb, complete with hat. And he made tickets for us both! Here’s a video of us flying away from North Bay:
It got cloudy the closer to home we got, so for a bit, we were between cloud layers:
We dropped Janet off at the Guelph airport, then flew another 11 minutes to the Brantford airport.
When I got home, I found out that I had WON the BC Red Cedar Award for Last Airlift!
The next day, a bunch of Silver Birch authors flew to Thunder Bay for more fun.
