Vacations

We did a little more driving around then headed back to the hotel to get a Wi-Fi connection. The overseas plan from AT&T just sucked out loud. $70 for 50 Mb of data while in Canada, but we couldn't even

After our laundry was done we headed down to Kensington Market. We heard it was the thing to do on a Sunday and it was Sunday after all. But when we got there we decided not to stop. It was a mix of Canal

We woke up early to find Duke watching out of the window... we went to walk the dogs and as we came out of the hotel we spotted a nice little neighborhood across the street and decided to take

We decided to walk the dogs before bed and headed down Avenue Road to Queen's Park. We had missed a festival but we still found the park to be a nice place even this late at night. On our way out of the

Finally around 11:00 pm we arrived at the Four Seasons in the Yorktown area of Toronto. We picked the Four Seasons because every other hotel wanted $100/night per dog plus a cleaning fee, on top of the

It was getting very close to sunset so we decided to head back to the highway. After all you can't see much scenery after the sun goes down anyway. Once we were back on highway 401 we spotted a sign

Our waiter brought the dogs a water bowl and we ordered our dinner: Chilled Watermelon Soup with Feta Cheese and Mint, a Leak and Cheese Torte, Duck with New Potatoes and Wax Beans in a blueberry

We pulled into the downtown area of Kingston around 5:00 pm and parked a block away from Pan Chanco which was the restaurant we wanted to try. As we walked over with the dogs we passed tons of neat little

We headed out of Montreal on 20 Ouest until we (and everyone else in town) discovered that 20 Ouest was closed and there was no work being done for as far as we could see. Maybe there was a strike which

I loaded the car and pulled up to the hotel to get Sandra and the dogs and the last load of stuff at 11:30. The valet guy gave a funny look to my roof bag I could tell he was wondering how to fit this

We had been told that we had to see the Old section of Montreal so we drove through it to see what it was all about. The buildings were older and the streets were all cobblestone and very wide. The dogs

The alarm went off at 8:00 am and Duke was ready to go. Because we were in a hotel and two blocks away from any grass we had to get ready to go as well. We walked the pups back to the park that we had

As we pulled into Montreal, Tom Tom loast his signal because of the tall buildings. The poor thing had no idea where we were or where we should go. It was like having a blind guide dog, getting a bit of

It was 1.5 hours from the boarder to Montreal and we needed to stop for gas so we chose an exit and found a gas station. The price said $0.99! WOW, that's cheap... until you realize that's per liter

Finally we hit the line to go through customs at the Canadian border. The line took about 45 minutes and we were able to watch the US border patrol on the other side of the highway. They were turning

We were getting close to Canada on I-93, just cruising along when something went flying by. I thought it was a piece of trash except that it was yellow in color. Actually it was the same color yellow as

We dorve through the White Mountain National Forest where we saw several warnings about Moose crossings. This was great! I've still never seen a moose and with any lick we would get our chance on this

We pulled into the glass shop at 7:56 am for our 8:00 am appointment. We were the first ones there and anxious for them to get started because it was apparently a tough replacement process. At this

We woke up at 4:00 am, it was still completely dark outside and nobody else was moving around at all. We packed up quickly and walked the dogs hoping to have time for a shower at the bath house across

Finally it was dry, and light enough to reorganize the car. Which we did quickly before starting a dinner of black beans and yellow rice. We also were finally able to start a fire with our left over