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The most excellent adventures! By Ellen Cohen It’s unlikely that planning a visit to grandma and grandpa’s house will conjure up visions of far flung travel. Unless, of course, you’re a grandchild of Betsy RamsayCurrie and her husband, Ted. Betsy and Ted live in a child’s paradise on Lake St. George in Severn Township, not very far from their six very lucky grandchildren, ages 7-15 who have the opportunity to stay with them often. As grandparents tend to do, Betsy talks about the children with pride. Each of the children is interesting, interested in many things and very busy. They go sailing, play hockey, do photography and take gymnastic lessons. The eldest has a part-time summer job close to Lake St. George. Two of them live in Toronto, one in Pickering, and three in Schomberg. Betsy and Ted are both retired educators. They see their grandchildren often and want as much as possible to expose them the learning and travel. “We’ve done a great deal of traveling ourselves and understand how rich our lives are because of it. Five years ago, we thought why not offer the same opportunity to our grandchildren?” said Ted. “And what a bonus it would be, we said to each other,
Benjamin, Jaxon, Kylie, Noah and Matthew ham it up for a photographer at their grandparents’ cottage on Lake St. George in Severn Township. to actually see destinations through our grandchildren’s eyes.” The plan was to take each of the grandchildren on a trip, one child at a time, for a one-week travel adventure, the destination chosen by the child. After securing permission from their kids, the grandchildren’s parents, planning began. Betsy said Ted simply asked the eldest grandchild “Where would you like to go?” “London, England,” said Benjamin. And so, the first excellent adventure began. Betsy went to the library and loaded up on books – fact and fiction – about London, and Benjamin did a lot of reading and research on his own.
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“For each of our trips, our grandchildren not only choose the destination, they decide on the sights we’ll see once we get there. It means they have to learn quite a bit about where we’re going. In the case of London, England our grandson, Benjamin had quite a number of sights he wanted to see and his research helped us a lot, particularly in traveling the tube, the subway system. He looked at maps and helped us maneuver the system better than we could ever have done on our own!” Betsy said that not only is travel a wonderful learning experience for children, Continued on page 14
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