Two of our sisters have
expressed disappointment in us for not inviting the drowning campers
of our last update inside. I'd like to point out I suggested this
and Brad said no for the following reasons:
a) Inviting wet people
into Gil would negate his dry interior
b) It was midnight
c) We were in our PJs
d) You shouldn't talk to
strangers, especially at midnight in your PJs
* * *
After an uncomplicated
border crossing we were back in Canada again and of course checked
out Niagara Falls from their side too.
The Canadians definitely got the better view when dividing the place up.
From here we made our
way to Toronto, via the Niagara Escarpment & Twenty Valley wine
growing district and stocked up Gil's wine cellar (cough, under
table).
In Toronto, Brad left the
headlights on again, then set a personal best for restarting Gil by
himself. Brad: 2, AAA: 2 (I think he may have been purposely trying
to level the score). After a few days wandering around Toronto, we
continued our way beside the St. Lawrence River via some beautiful
old towns, and so many stunning old houses I was ready to move into
(Brad say's no, so fear not if you are expecting me back in the
office next year).
In Bloomfield we had a frozen confection for
lunch again, this time at Slicker's Ice cream which boasts true to
life flavours, such as apple pie – three actual home made apple
pies are mixed into the ice cream. Slightly further down the road we
stopped for afternoon tea in Picton, at a gourmet hot dog shop,
Buddha Dog. I'm not sure about you, but I don't normally associate
Buddha and hot dogs, but whatever the reason they're on to a good
thing with their miniature – so we got to try a selection – hot
dogs. Very yummy indeed. The Picton County Fair was on the
following day, so we spent a night in the beautiful Sandbanks
Provincial Park (wish we'd had more time to spend here).
Whilst
the fair was quite small, it featured all the required vegetable and "designer" poultry competitions.
Many of the chickens had been entered by one
I'll-leave-his-last-name-out-for-privacy, who I estimate to be under
8 as he'd had to correct his name on some of the entry cards. I
imagine his farm was quite empty that day – even his brand new baby
guinea pigs were on display!
From Picton we headed on
to Kingston, hired a little Hobie cat and sailed on Lake Ontario.
Finally! The catamaran was no Catnap, with absolutely no risk of
capsizing or going at any great pace – Brad even let me be captain
for a while – but the water was delightfully warm and the weather
perfect for sailing. It reminded us both how much we miss sailing
and the close proximity of an algae free beach. If there weather
gets above 25 degrees when we're home in a few weeks, you'll find us
out with 'Catty' at Safety Beach.
This shall be the final
instalment in the Crosscountry(ies) updates and you may now sigh with
relief that updates may be a little more interesting going forward
(at least that's what I'll keep telling myself), and far more timely
(also what I keep telling myself). For the record, by the time I
wrote this, we had actually made it all the way across the country,
indeed, I wrote about Chicago whilst we were on the east coast of New
Brunswick, which if you look at a map, are nowhere near each other.
But there's a big world out there to see.....
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