Confederation Place - Hotel Kingston

... Wasser haben wir dann noch ein bisschen das schoene Wetter genossen und uns dann auf den Rueckweg nach Ottawa gemacht, auf dem Max, wie immer im Auto, geschlafen hat.

Da mitten auf dem Weg die Sonne unterging und Eyad gesagt hat, dass er vorher noch beten muss, haben wir einfach mal auf dem Seitenstreifen der Autobahn halt gemacht, er hat seine Gebetsmatte auf ausgebreitet und gebetet... Fuer mich war das ja nichts..

Und ich brauchte ganz dringend eine Toilette ...

... told us how to get to a little island just down the road where we could eat, rest and hang out during the heat of the day. What a gift, as we never would have discovered it on our own. Anyway apparently while we were inside shopping several customers had come in the store concerned about the girl stretched out on the lawn. Some thought she might even be passed out! The manager told us, "Don't ...

Saturday, August 15, 2009 - Kingston

We arrived in Kingston after traveling about 9 hours. It was a long day, but we still had time to enjoy the waterfront and walk around the town a bit. The stores closed at 5:30pm, but the restaurants (and ice cream parlors!) were open all evening. We ate at a nice little bistro that had an outside patio. (Of course, we soon learned ...

... of assistants between the age of 12 and 100, who did not want to sell you anything - bizarre - actually more like the shop in Royston Vasey - 'a local shop for local people).  

We took a pleasant walk through the city park which was surrounded by grand buildings (most of which looked like they needed renovation or were student accommodation) moving on to the sea fronted residents with lovely wooden ...

This is Jo's old stamping ground so on her recommendation we took a day out from our idyllic pad and went for a tour of the Thousand Island. One side of the island belongs to Canada and one side is the USA and it is not hard to identify which side is which as they are extremely proud of their countries to fly their national colours.  The sides of the lake are fairly full with homes and even some of the little islands ...

... like distant planes. To give you an idea of how big they are, I could not take a picture of people at the windmill as well as the propellers, I had to move back to far to get the propellers into the frame that the people were too small to see. It's quite incredible to stand next to something that stretches so high into the sky. I bet they are about 20 stories tall.
Continuing on our bike trail, the road bent and became gravel as we changed course to the ...

... people died in that field. We drove back past Loch Ness. I thought I may have seen Nessie, but I'm not sure. Maybe if I had stayed up drinking by the campfire I would have seen her more clearly Drove to Urqhart Castle but decided it was too expensive to get in so just took photos. I think it's a really cool looking place. On to see Ben Nevis (the highest mountain in Scotland) and Fort William. Looks like a ski resort area. On to ...

April 30 Flight actually landed early! We were well on our way into London within 1 hour of the plane touching down. Neither one of us got any sleep on the plane. The seats on Air Canada, although spacious, are incredibly uncomfortable. The spring flowers aee in bloom! The lilacs are at their peak and the city smells fresh! We saw a tree with clusters of purple flowers...think of the cone shape of lilacs but substitute a small cluster of snap dragon flowers in a ...

... be playing Vegas around the same time. On impulse (read: without thinking through it and actually looking at a calendar) L and I decided it was only the night before Elton, so why not get tickets to Cher too. It only meant we had to be in Vegas one extra night. Well...we were wrong. It's two nights early. So I found us another place to stay for the first two nights, and then went to work figuring out how we were ...

... I approached the dreaded U.S. Border crossing. I get to Customs and I end up in a closed lane (I'll blame the construction that was going on there for missing the red light indicating the lane was closed). A Customs Officer directs me to back up (that was fun) and get in an open lane. Chat with the Officer then I am directed to pull forward for further inspection. They have to make sure I'm not carrying any banned "BEEF". Nothing gets confiscated. Chat with the Customs ...