The tale continues.
We woke up on Tuesday and figured out the rides to head to Niagara Falls. I went in
Fea's lovely truck with
Kath,
Boro and
Agan.
Mac and
Rikae had to switch to another vehicle so went on their own with the Wereduckling. Everyone else went in
Nog's vehicle. The way there I had a rather deep, but fantastic conversation with
Aganzir. Her and I have very different views but she was very easy to talk too, and it was a very amiable conversation, despite our many differences. I adore this girl.
When we arrived in the city of Niagara Falls, NY, we got a bit lost, but since I had taken on the job of finding directions there and finding a meeting spot (with the help of my dear friend Google Maps), I was able to direct us to the correct parking lot and in no time we had met up with the other cars and with
Bethberry and her lovely husband and son. I had other Canadians, and this pleased me.
We had some lunch inside a nice welcome centre, and it rained outside.
Boro was sweet enough to buy
Fea and I some matching necklaces that we were totally in love with, since the debit machines there hated my Canadian debit card. <3 We then went over to the falls and payed a dollar to get on the observation deck (keep that part in mind for later in the story), and some went on the Maid of the Mist boat to get closer to the Falls. We then discussed whether we should go over to the Canadian side, even though some didn't have their passports, and eventually decided there was no harm in trying.
We went through the free turnstiles onto the Rainbow Bridge. It was exciting to walk over the border line, and put one foot on each side, haha. Once we got to the customs booth
Fea and I took the lead and walked up to the counter. She held up my passport along side
Fea's driver's license, which confused us. She asked how we could possibly know each other and Fea skillfully avoided using the word 'internet' for quite some time, but eventually made the girl happy with 'literary forum'. Luckily, we all got through just fine, and lo and behold it wasn't raining at all on the Canadian side, it was actually very sunny. My country rocks.
We walked up a steap hill and looked in some little shops. On the way down we got some icecream and then looked at the Falls from the free observation deck (remember what I said about the US one? yeah, awesome). We then decided to head back to the US and had to pay 50 cents each to get on to the bridge (points out first sentence of previous paragraph). We had an immense moment of panic when
Boro couldn't find his driver's license, but luckily a kind gentleman had found it on the ground outside customs and brought it in.
Then half the group had to leave. After some hugs and a very slow walk to
Nog's vehicle, he and
Greenie,
Lommy,
Agan and
Boro left us. I lost count of how many times I hugged each of the girls, they are all just so sweet and snuggly and adorable, and I immediately missed them and
Nog, and
Boro.
I headed back in
Fea's truck again with
Kath and
Brinniel. On the way when it was starting to get dark
Fea exclaimed "Look at the deer!" and the conversation she described above then happened. It was really frustrating, cause I wanted to see a deer but clearly my eyes weren't working with me in this situation. On the ride home
Kath and I decided that she would be taking the bus to Toronto with me, since she needed to get there and it was a stop for me on the way hoome. When we looked at bus prices I also looked at how much it would be to take her all the way home with me, and it was surprisingly expensive, but we decided that once in Toronto we would see if the prices could be brought lower.
We slept and woke up around 8:30 the next morning.
Brinniel headed to the train station with the Wereduckling saying "bye bye" over and over, and it was adorable and sad to see her go. We watched Flushed Away with the girls and had some snuggle time with the Wereduckling. Then
Fea left, and we were sad.
Kath and I had more Wereduckling snuggles and eventually said goodbye to the girls and to
Rikae.
Mac drove us to the cute little bus station and then
Kath and I headed towards Canada!
It was raining in Buffalo, but once we got over to Canada it stopped raining and was sunny. Haha, this made us really happy. We arrived in Toronto at 9pm and were very happy to get the bus tickets down to a more reasonable price. She was coming home with me!!! I immediately called
Glirdan to make a date with him for the next day, telling him I got him a gift from Geneva that he had to have right away, and luckily he was available! We had something to eat and then hung out for 3 hours in the bus station, almost falling asleep and grateful to finally get on the bus. My dad picked us up from the bus station in Sudbury at 5:30 am and we took a nice little nap before going to pick up
Glirdan at 9:30.
It was epic. He was so excited and so surprised and
Kath was the best birthday present ever for him! I brought them out to breakfast and we had some epicly delicious waffles, then we went to Science North, which is Sudbury's snow flake shaped science centre. We say some cool animals and spent some time in the
butterfly room (yes, I was very happy). We also used some picture of butterfly wings that looked like letters to make
mine and
Glirdan's names. We lied down on the
bed of
nails, and played with
dominoes. We got to pet an adorable flying
squirrel, and
Glirdy was
eaten. That night my brother (
Wayne the Goblin, for anyone who may remember him), came with us to see the
Big Nickel, and then we just hung out that evening playing Scrabble.
After our scrabble game
Kath used the paper to make a little boat and this little claw thing. She then used the claw to pick up and throw over the boat saying something like "mwahaha, there goes the Titanic". And
Glirdan responded with "So it was a giant claw that sunk the Titanic, not the ice cream." No, I didn't type that wrong, he actually said that. It's revealed people, ice cream sunk the Titanic, not some lousy iceburg. This kept us laughing all the way to his house.
Back home
Kath and I (and my sister,
Lote, if anyone remembers
her) watched the first half of A Very Potter Musical, and it was fantastic, but then we were sleepy and so slept.
Lote came with us to get
Glirdy the next morning and we went out for breakfast, talked about Bostonmoot and eventually had to drop
Kath off at the
bus station. She left at 1pm on the Friday. I thought it was cool that my Downer time lasted exactly 1 week, down to the hour.
And that was my trip, and it was epic and I loved everyone and miss them all very much!!!