Canada to America
Ok, so here is what we have been up to...
On Sunday we went to the baseball with Lucas and Donna. The Toronto Blue Jays were playing the Baltimore Oriels. It was a great game with Toronto winning and hitting 3 home runs. The game was at 1pm, and before the game Toronto were having a fan appreciation day where if you got there early you could line up to go on the field and take pictures of the players and the field. Did you know they didn't use real grass?
That was really fun, not that we knew any of the players, but because we got to go on the field and i pretended to catch a ball by jumping against the wall :)
After going on the field we checked out a few of the shops and food options and then went to our seats. They were pretty good seats and in full sun, which we loved but Donna and Lucas didn't, so they went back a few rows to where it wasn't as sunny. As we watched the game progress they were having a promotion where if the pitcher got seven strike outs then the audience got a free slice of pizza. The pitcher got his 7th out in the 7th inning so all was good with the world. After the game we headed back to Lucas's place and had Wingmaster, the absolute bested place that serves wings ever for dinner. We may have already mentioned that we like Wingmaster. This time we got Raspberry Jerk, Buffalo Blue Cheese Gold, Apple Pie BBQ, Tex Mex and Mesquite BBQ. The Apple Pie BBQ was amazing, totally the best flavour ever.
Monday Donna and Lucas went back to work, and we spent the rest of the week hanging out at Lucas's house, not doing much just reading and watching TV, waiting for our registration to arrive. By Friday we decided to call, and it turned out that they were only about to send it. We got permission for the RV to be booked into an early service and set that up for the Monday, thinking that the rego would arrive by Wednesday at the absolute latest. That weekend we watched Lucas play in a street hockey tournament and it was fun to watch the boys chase the ball around. We met Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) as he has his own hockey team Puck U, and they were competing in the tournament as well. Kevin was goalie. I was starting to feel a bit fluey so we didn't watch Lucas's Sunday night game as I wanted to stay in. He won that one.
On Monday I woke with no voice. Kade took the RV in to get serviced without me and came home with a Tim Horton's coffee for me...I love Tim Horton's. I progressively got a bit better throughout the day and come the afternoon we picked up the RV, no major issues with the service.
No rego arrived on Tuesday.
No rego arrived on Wednesday.
On Thursday, no rego. HOWEVER, I was watching TV and Kade was sleeping when the doorbell rang. Someone had hit and broken the drivers side mirror on the RV. At least he stopped because we wouldn't of known otherwise. So we had to get his details, called Apollo (the rental company), and called Ford where we got the RV serviced. They said come in and they would see what they could do to fix it.
On Friday, no rego. We called Apollo, and they had no idea where it was and tried to track it (we still haven't heard back about where it is) so they emailed a copy though. The service place said it would be at least 2 weeks before we could get a new mirror. So things were not looking too good...
The service place contacted a glass repair guy and we arranged it just to get a temporary fix to last until we hand the RV back. The glass repair guy fixed the RV on Saturday, and we then packed the RV with everything we had in Lucas' house, had one final dinner with them, and retired early as we were to get up at 6am the next day to leave.
We got up, and left with no issues, only slightly nervous about the border crossing as we didn't have the updated sticker for the rego, but our reason if asked was to be it is lost in the mail and the rental company is looking for it.
There was no wait at the border, the guy checked our passports, did the usual asking what happened to Kades passport (got wet at Disney World and his picture ran), asked us why in Canada, why in America, for how long etc. Then he asked us about if we bought anything in Canada. We realised we hadn't, and I don't know if he believed us when we said no. He asked us twice and then I had to explain how I met Lucas etc...but we passed through ok, and proceeded on our 900km drive to Salem, MA.
One of the places I really wanted to go to was Salem, and we were getting worried that we wouldn't have time to get there, as we had to be in New York City by 5pm on Wednesday to meet my mum and sister who were flying in. The drive was good, as we hadn't done any for a few weeks.
We arrived in Salem at around 7pm, and it was all foggy and the mood seemed to suit the towns history. Salem is the location of the famous Witch Trials of 1692, which the play and movie The Crucible was made about. We got an early night and woke up the next day refreshed and ready to walk the 1.5 miles to the city center, where the museum we wanted to visit was located. The museum was really interesting, they put on a demonstration of the trials from the start to the end of the hangings. Did you know that no one was burned at the stake for being a witch in Salem? They were hung and one man was crushed to death. The museum also had a time line of the evolution of witches, which was interesting. In 2001 an apology was made to the families of those whose ancestors still weren't cleared of witchcraft. After the museum we walked though town, looking at some of the shops and tourist points, including a Bewitched statue of Samantha, which caused uproar when unveiled around 7 years ago. We walked back to the campgrounds, and headed out, on our way to the New York campground, around 70 miles north of New York City.
We pulled in and set up camp, had dinner, and went to bed.
Today we headed to the Orange County Choppers visitor center, where they have a huge store, lots of the famous bikes on display, and a viewing panel where you can watch the team make bikes. Unfortunately we didn't see anyone we know from the show, but we did see alot of the bikes we liked and had watched being made. After that, we headed to an outlet mall that was close by. We arrived and saw it was a HUGE one, biggest one we had seen yet. We went to a shop called Under Armour that had some sales going and bought some thermals for the Alaska part of the trip. We got two long sleeve tops each, and I also got a jacket. Once we get Kade a jacket and both of us a vest or similar, we should be OK...we hope :) Kade also got two pairs of Levi jeans for $50. I love outlet shopping :)
We came back to the campground, had dinner (pork, asparagus, tomato and potato salad with bread) and have started to get ready for the trip into New York City tomorrow. We will put the RV into storage here at the campground and train it in, and stay in a hotel for 3 nights, with Mum and Kylie.
Thats all folks, as usual, please post any comments or questions, all you have to do is select read users comments, type in the comments field and hit publish comment.
Later :)
On Sunday we went to the baseball with Lucas and Donna. The Toronto Blue Jays were playing the Baltimore Oriels. It was a great game with Toronto winning and hitting 3 home runs. The game was at 1pm, and before the game Toronto were having a fan appreciation day where if you got there early you could line up to go on the field and take pictures of the players and the field. Did you know they didn't use real grass?
That was really fun, not that we knew any of the players, but because we got to go on the field and i pretended to catch a ball by jumping against the wall :)
After going on the field we checked out a few of the shops and food options and then went to our seats. They were pretty good seats and in full sun, which we loved but Donna and Lucas didn't, so they went back a few rows to where it wasn't as sunny. As we watched the game progress they were having a promotion where if the pitcher got seven strike outs then the audience got a free slice of pizza. The pitcher got his 7th out in the 7th inning so all was good with the world. After the game we headed back to Lucas's place and had Wingmaster, the absolute bested place that serves wings ever for dinner. We may have already mentioned that we like Wingmaster. This time we got Raspberry Jerk, Buffalo Blue Cheese Gold, Apple Pie BBQ, Tex Mex and Mesquite BBQ. The Apple Pie BBQ was amazing, totally the best flavour ever.
Monday Donna and Lucas went back to work, and we spent the rest of the week hanging out at Lucas's house, not doing much just reading and watching TV, waiting for our registration to arrive. By Friday we decided to call, and it turned out that they were only about to send it. We got permission for the RV to be booked into an early service and set that up for the Monday, thinking that the rego would arrive by Wednesday at the absolute latest. That weekend we watched Lucas play in a street hockey tournament and it was fun to watch the boys chase the ball around. We met Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) as he has his own hockey team Puck U, and they were competing in the tournament as well. Kevin was goalie. I was starting to feel a bit fluey so we didn't watch Lucas's Sunday night game as I wanted to stay in. He won that one.
On Monday I woke with no voice. Kade took the RV in to get serviced without me and came home with a Tim Horton's coffee for me...I love Tim Horton's. I progressively got a bit better throughout the day and come the afternoon we picked up the RV, no major issues with the service.
No rego arrived on Tuesday.
No rego arrived on Wednesday.
On Thursday, no rego. HOWEVER, I was watching TV and Kade was sleeping when the doorbell rang. Someone had hit and broken the drivers side mirror on the RV. At least he stopped because we wouldn't of known otherwise. So we had to get his details, called Apollo (the rental company), and called Ford where we got the RV serviced. They said come in and they would see what they could do to fix it.
On Friday, no rego. We called Apollo, and they had no idea where it was and tried to track it (we still haven't heard back about where it is) so they emailed a copy though. The service place said it would be at least 2 weeks before we could get a new mirror. So things were not looking too good...
The service place contacted a glass repair guy and we arranged it just to get a temporary fix to last until we hand the RV back. The glass repair guy fixed the RV on Saturday, and we then packed the RV with everything we had in Lucas' house, had one final dinner with them, and retired early as we were to get up at 6am the next day to leave.
We got up, and left with no issues, only slightly nervous about the border crossing as we didn't have the updated sticker for the rego, but our reason if asked was to be it is lost in the mail and the rental company is looking for it.
There was no wait at the border, the guy checked our passports, did the usual asking what happened to Kades passport (got wet at Disney World and his picture ran), asked us why in Canada, why in America, for how long etc. Then he asked us about if we bought anything in Canada. We realised we hadn't, and I don't know if he believed us when we said no. He asked us twice and then I had to explain how I met Lucas etc...but we passed through ok, and proceeded on our 900km drive to Salem, MA.
One of the places I really wanted to go to was Salem, and we were getting worried that we wouldn't have time to get there, as we had to be in New York City by 5pm on Wednesday to meet my mum and sister who were flying in. The drive was good, as we hadn't done any for a few weeks.
We arrived in Salem at around 7pm, and it was all foggy and the mood seemed to suit the towns history. Salem is the location of the famous Witch Trials of 1692, which the play and movie The Crucible was made about. We got an early night and woke up the next day refreshed and ready to walk the 1.5 miles to the city center, where the museum we wanted to visit was located. The museum was really interesting, they put on a demonstration of the trials from the start to the end of the hangings. Did you know that no one was burned at the stake for being a witch in Salem? They were hung and one man was crushed to death. The museum also had a time line of the evolution of witches, which was interesting. In 2001 an apology was made to the families of those whose ancestors still weren't cleared of witchcraft. After the museum we walked though town, looking at some of the shops and tourist points, including a Bewitched statue of Samantha, which caused uproar when unveiled around 7 years ago. We walked back to the campgrounds, and headed out, on our way to the New York campground, around 70 miles north of New York City.
We pulled in and set up camp, had dinner, and went to bed.
Today we headed to the Orange County Choppers visitor center, where they have a huge store, lots of the famous bikes on display, and a viewing panel where you can watch the team make bikes. Unfortunately we didn't see anyone we know from the show, but we did see alot of the bikes we liked and had watched being made. After that, we headed to an outlet mall that was close by. We arrived and saw it was a HUGE one, biggest one we had seen yet. We went to a shop called Under Armour that had some sales going and bought some thermals for the Alaska part of the trip. We got two long sleeve tops each, and I also got a jacket. Once we get Kade a jacket and both of us a vest or similar, we should be OK...we hope :) Kade also got two pairs of Levi jeans for $50. I love outlet shopping :)
We came back to the campground, had dinner (pork, asparagus, tomato and potato salad with bread) and have started to get ready for the trip into New York City tomorrow. We will put the RV into storage here at the campground and train it in, and stay in a hotel for 3 nights, with Mum and Kylie.
Thats all folks, as usual, please post any comments or questions, all you have to do is select read users comments, type in the comments field and hit publish comment.
Later :)
Hey there little Kate - wow, so that is what you folk are doing! Have a great trip - and best luck on not letting bureacracy derail you.
Sophie (aka Jeanie)
Hey Katie,
Glad you are having a fun time! On Tuesday (Australian Time) you're mum was eyeing off the clock all day - When clock-off time came I swear she bolted out that door like if the building was on fire.
Glad your having a fun time, enjoy the time with your Mum and Kylie - all the best!!
David from Tenpin :)
Photo of Kevin Smith please. :)
Btw, sounds like you're having a blast! It sucks that the internet has been glitching while we chat, but oh well. We'll get to talk properly soon, I'm sure.
Talk to you later!