General Discussion & Chat: Best/worse/what did I learn today? Chat with friends!, 1 by Quilter5bdsr

Quilter5bdsr wrote:
From Mittsy's home in Cicero, NY, we headed north toward Canada. We stayed Sat. nite in Watertown NY. We ordered a pizza and some garlic bread from room service rather than eat out again. Actually we were still quite sated from lunch!!! We watched the weather for Sunday with trepidation. We had plans to meet up with Thea and her husband, Bernie, in the morning after we crossed into Canada and we had some special plans for the day. What did we hear??? Occasional rain!!! But bright and early we drove the 25 miles up to Canada and were greeted with smiles at customs... "How long are you staying?" she asked and we replied about a week. "That's delightful" she said. You know the Canadain dollar is just about equal with the American one and at times even worth more!!!!!! She was really very nice.
We then proceeded to the parking lot of the Sky Deck attraction which was about 200 yards past customs. It was empty and the it was raining lightly.
We were a bit early so went next door to the Canadian visitor's center. Two of the most delightful young ladies were there. When we told them where we were headed (Victoria Harbor to Betty's) they went all around the room gathering up all kinds of pamphlets for us to look at. We were given a map of Ontario province and a cute little badg to carry it all in. They were so sweet.
Back we went to the Sky Deck lot. It had stopped raining. Sat for about ten minutes and at 9AM on the dot--here come Thea and Bernie... It was like a long lost reunion. Thea and I have corresponded a bit back and forth swapping patterns etc for over a year now and it was such a joy to finally meet her. We had made plans to take a boat ride around the 1000 Islands in the St Lawrence River located near there. It wasn't to leave until 11 AM and was only a 10 minute drive to get there so I asked if there were some place we could sit and chat for a while. So we followed them to TIM HORTONS!!!!! Yes, my friends, Norm and I were baptized!!!!