Well, it’s been nine days since we returned to our hometown. Instead of giving a summary for each day (as I did very little for some days and don’t know what the others did) I’m simply going to give a summary of what I did over the last nine days.
Most of my days consisted of waking up, having breakfast, and then hanging out in and by the pool. I bought some CDs as well and backed up all of the photos I took. 16 CDs for the raw format and 4 for the JPEGs (of which I burned for Kelly). With the Tour De France on television, I rotated throughout the day between watching the television and swimming. I played a round of golf with my friend Jeremys, Craig, and Jeff on the Monday. I hadn’t swung a club in almost 2.5 years, so I was a tad rusty. It was good to get back at it though. I have my clubs back home in Calgary and really want to hit up some links after I return.
Anyway, other than trying to gain back the 7.5 pounds I lost on our 45 day drive, I didn’t do a whole lot. I got to see my grandfather and my aunt and uncle for dinner and played some poker with Chris and our friend Jeremy. On Saturday the 22nd, Chris and I attended the first wedding of our high school friends. Good times. Open bar from 2:30pm to 1:00am. It was great to see friends I hadn’t seen in years and I even ripped up the dance floor a couple of times. Something I don’t normally do. Congratulations Erin and Adam! All the best in your years to come!
So, after being home for nine days, it is now time to complete the trip. At 9:30am this morning after saying good-bye to our families, we headed out on the road to Kelly’s in Toronto. We got there around 12:30pm and spent the afternoon checking out a couple of sites in the city. We met up with my younger brother at Union Station and headed to the CN Tower. I had never gone up it before, so we figured we’d do it so that we could at least say we did. I mean common, it is the tallest building in the world. The view was similar to most other towers we went up (Space Needle, Stratosphere, and Calgary tower). What the CN Tower has that no other tower has, is the glass floor. Pretty cool. Lots of people were scared to walk over it, but most were not. People were laying down and taking photos while others jumped on the glass to prove their courage. Chris and I walked out, but Kelly merely took a few steps before stepping back. It was pretty neat.
After the CN Tower we headed to the Hockey Hall of Fame. My brother decided to depart as he wasn’t much for museum-style activities, so Chris, Kelly and myself spent just over an hour checking out the history of hockey.
Not wanting to walk anymore, we headed back to Kelly’s house where we spent the evening. We had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and watched a movie. Oh and we watched a slide show of all of our photos while remembering the trip. It took almost 2.5 hours to go through. It was fun to look back at the things we had done and what we had seen. Something we will all surely remember for the rest of our lives.
