Day 5 – Visiting Vaughan

So, I don’t know how Vaughan, Ontario is pronounced ‘Vauhn’ (like Agent Vauhn in Alias!) but it is. I would think it would be something like Vohan or something like that.

Vero’s friend Emilie moved to Vaughan along with her boyfriend Ryan so we dropped by on our way back from London. Turns out that it was a packed house that night as her parents were also visiting! We managed to find the house easily and then we sat and talked for awhile before heading out to a winery in the area. Nothing too special to be seen at this winery tour…we got to see the manufacturing area and then the basement where the kegs of wine sat to be aged. Pretty neat. We then had a taste test of a few wines (which Vero hated by the second wine).

We then headed home where we met up with Ryan who got off of work. After picking up some beer and touring around Vaughan, we sat down to enjoy a few brewskis and had some excellent dinner.

Ryan also introduced me to the fact that snowmobiles can travel over water if you get up to a good speed. I couldn’t believe this when he was telling me. I was just sitting there going “Uh huh, uh huh.” when I clued into him actually saying he was going across the water in the summer! He showed me some videos on the Internet and I couldn’t believe my eyes! Has anyone witnessed this? I also can’t believe that this was happening all over Hearst but I had never heard about it in Kapuskasing.

Considering some people had to work in the morning, we called it a night (after having some sausages and herring…mmm…herring) and we witnessed the fastest blowing up of an air mattress ever! I couldn’t believe the power in this little rechargeable blower-upper tool. Emilie and I had a good laugh at how fast it blew up. We are talking 15 seconds here! Unfortunately we discovered that the mattress had a leak so I had to bail onto the couch during the middle of the night and then also nabbed a bed when Emilie’s parents left in the morning.

The morning after we had some great pancakes and headed to Emilie’s new school to check out her classroom. Vero and I then decided to hit the road and take us where the wind took us. Destination – Quebec City. After stopping in Brockville for a grocery and camping run (new air mattress and a sweet LED lamp) we realized that the sun was setting fairly soon so it may be in our best interest to find a campground. Let me tell you that my road atlas isn’t the best thing money has bought in terms of finding camping areas. We found on on the 416 and having thinking about it, we decided to camp there even though it was only 45 minutes more of a drive to our actual houses in Ottawa! Hey, we’re on vacation, let’s make it a vacation. In the end, we found a KOA campground (which wasn’t listed in the Road Atlas…boo…hiss!), set up our tent, went for a swim and then retired for the night while playing some games on my computer like Connect-4, and Marsala. Vero thinks she kicked my ass in these games but she was seriously mistaken.

Trip Tip #1: Check more carefully at the road atlas that you bought for $20 to make sure it lists A LOT of the campgrounds along your route and not just the Provincial Parks.

It was nice to see more of Emilie and Ryan as I had only met them a few times. Excellent friends to have!

iplaying: Waiting All Day – Silverchair (Young Modern)