Niagara Falls and the Godfather
News ·Sunday September 2, 2007 @ 17:41 EDT (link)
After the wedding, we stayed at my parents' place for a week. My dad had to work most of that week, except he took Monday off, so we mainly saw him in the evenings; over a few of them, we watched the Godfather trilogy; Honey's not a fan, but watched the first two with us.
We did take a trip to Niagara Falls on Monday: just Honey and I and my parents. We drove around the Falls proper, along the Niagara Parkway; we stopped and walked a few times, and walked around Niagara-on-the-Lake, where my mother, bless her heart, bought us kids some treats from a small shop which sold imported English goodies (jelly babies, penguin bars). We stopped into a few places like the old apothecary, and I read about the origin of the "Rx" symbol (it's very controversial). We also went to another place further in the country (toward Niagara Stone Road, heading home) where my parents bought us fudge and Turkish delight. They spoil us when we visit, really they do. We had a great time walking around and talking with them.
Mum and Dad
On Friday we went out to Port Maitland; we had fries from a chipwagon (which there's a dearth of in the U.S.) for lunch. At home, I'd tried to find our old British monopoly (has British layout) sets (the properties are London landmarks, e.g. Mayfair and Park Lane are the top two properties, instead of Boardwalk and Park Place), since my dad said I could take it home, but we couldn't find it; I have my suspicions as to who's got it.
Unfortunately I got a bad cold that week, so had a few days of dripping misery, compounded by my allergies to their cats. But I tried to ignore it as best I could. At the end of the week Rebecca and Theo moved to Thunder Bay for school (I think he's going to pilot school and she for teaching, but don't quote me on that). They were going to leave Thursday, but had trouble getting a trailer so ender up having to leave Sunday (can't verify that, either, since we flew out at 0900 on Saturday September 1). Sharon's going to school (Master's in linguistics) in Buffalo, which is a heck of a commute (she's still staying with my parents), and they make it expensive for out-of-state students (I know, I've looked; in most places it takes a year of residence, not including living there for school to pay in-state rates). She'd've done better to have snuck across the border and gotten in-state illegal alien rates.
We arrived back in Seattle at 1110 (direct flights are nice... not that nice; remember there's a three hour time zone difference, so it's five hours, not two). All was well at our house in Duvall; we had a lot of mail, of course, and our Internet was still out. We'd tried to get Millennium Digital Media (MDM) to fix it before we left, but they could only come while we were gone, and were unable to fix it when I called them while we were away; so we'd arranged for a guy to come on Tuesday (Monday being Labor Day).
