Ottawa

Barb went to Ottawa for a pickleball tournament and stayed with her old friends from the Barrhaven tennis club Gary and Debbie.  When Barb discovered pickleball we were in Ottawa and she wanted to get her friends to start playing with her but they wouldn't even let her mention the p-word.  She wanted the Barrhaven tennis club to set up pickleball lines but her so called friends on the executive wouldn't hear of it even though Barb had been the treasurer of the club for years and years.  Then almost as soon as we left Barrhaven her old friends discovered pickleball for themselves and now they are as addicted to it as Barb.  There is a very active pickleball association in Ottawa who have been able to get many many gyms and courts to set up pickleball courts.  Barb is always complaining that she can't find enough good pickleball in Kitchener and she is jealous of the people in Ottawa.  I keep telling her we can sell our place in New Hamburg and move back to Ottawa but she always says that then I would not have my fastball.  Anyway her wish came true when Barb got to play pickleball with her old friends the night before her pickleball tournament in Ottawa.