General Wolfe Hotel Kingston

... Castle, other Kingston Forts and waterfronts while dining and being entertained onboard luxurious old time steamer replicas.<br><br>We came here because it's home to Don Cherry, Doug Gilmore, Bryan Adams, The Tragically Hip, Dan Aykroyd and sir John A. Macdonald. It has over 22 museums, 3 art galleries, over 200 sunken ships in its harbor and is Ontario&#8217;s largest heritage tourist ...

... auf einer Privatinsel halt gemacht und Max und ich haben die Gelegenheit genuzt im warmen Wasser zu baden. Ein Traum!<br>Nach insgesamt gut zwei Stunden haben wir dann die Kajaks wiederzurueckgegeben und und ein bisschen Gananoque angsehen.<br>Niedliches Staedchen mit einer wirlich guten Eisdiele - wie auf den Bildern zu erkennen ist hat Max sich ein riesiges Bananasplit gegoennt und ich mich zumindest beim Essen eifrig beteiligt.<br><br>Auf einer kleinen Wiese direkt ...

Saturday, August 15, 2009 - Kingston<br><br>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 ...

... and clear views of the lake.  We were seeking out the Penitentiary Prison, a tiny building giving the history of jails through the ages - sizes of cells, controlling methods and how the inmates made their weapons. Not quite Alcatraz but the kids enjoyed it.<br><br>After this riveting experience we decided it was time to eat and we joined one of Jo's friends Wendy at the local steak restaurant. We were filling ...

... to go straight home. Parker's parents showed us around there home. They live in what's called a tenement on the ground floor. It was beautiful. Huge rooms with incredibly tall ceilings. Parker's dad showed us some of the unique features of these houses - a knob near the front door would open the gate onto the walk. The fence and gate around the front yard would have been removed during the 2nd world war when Winston Churchill was having them melted ...

... Taste tested pickles, unpasteurized cheese and cassoulet. We considered buying tins of cassoulet for souvenirs but decided people may not get enough enjoyment out of them. They were rediculously expensive, so they would have had to provide a lot of joy. Walked along the southbank to the Oxo tower. When buildings were not permitted to advertise products on them (hard to believe in todays world) the makers of oxo ...

Senica and I went for along and scenic drive through rural roads to Westport. We saw lots of lakes and stopped for dinner in the small tourist town of Westport where the Big Rideau Lake meets Wolf Lake. We climbed Foley's mountain after dinner and had a nice lookout over the town. Then we meandered through the quiet streets before driving home.

Senica and I took a long drive today. It was lovely to explore the area. We were definitly travelling on the scenic route. I have never seen Wolfe Lake before, nor driven all the way around Devil Lake. We had a lovely dinner for two at a Greek Restaurant in Wesport.

With a lot of changes coming up in our lives, we've decided to take a pre-wedding vacation to help the transition between end of work, wedding, move and start of new work. Basically, we have a ton of stuff planned for the next month. We both finish work on the last day of April, then we leave for Cuba on the first of May via bus from Toronto. We'll spend 11 ...

... quite well in that I immediately found a great used bike and was able to get into a motorcycle safety course within a week. An operator's license and bike in hand the next hurdle was getting a bike carrier attached to my trailer. My planned date of departure came and went. My deadline to leave to get to Kingston came and the carrier that was coming from the U.S. was stuck in Customs at the border. On the road now, my motorcycle is collecting dust in my garage ...