Last weekend we invited Grandma and Grandpa F to spend 2 days and a night with us at Ingersoll Elms B&B. We met Friday afternoon for a tour at the Mint.
Although we didn’t see any pennies being made, there were many other different shapes, sizes and colours of coins to admire. The guide let L & K hold the largest coin the mint gift shop carries. It was pure silver with a diameter of 7.5cm(?), it was surprisingly heavy.
We also looked at “waffle coins” or the rejected coins that have been defaced, usually because of an imprinting error.
Afterwards we got some exercise trudging through the snow at the St Norbert Ruins. D&K had their family photos taken in the ruins this summer which brought up questions like where and what, since only L had been there before we checked it out.
The rest of the time was spent enjoying each other at the B&B, playing games and talking. We did indulge in some silliness and watched “The Gods must be Crazy”. We had hoped to watch it with L & K too but we ran out of time before bedtime. We will have to watch it some other time during family movie night.
We had a great time. Thank you again for the Christmas gift.
Looks like you had fun! I’m kinda jealous…