Canada Trip

I posted this file written by Clemence, Sybille, Donald and myself. Enjoy!!

You can find all the pictures there:
From Sybille
From Clemence
From Paola & Nicola
From Youb

Date 05-26-06

After leaving work, we went to pick up Huber’s friends at the train station. Thanks for the guy very driver… Two cute girls. Sybille and Clem

Then we got ready. All kind of plugs, starting with the tomtom, laptop, extended hard drive. We have the stock of bottle of water…we don t have enough place for ours bags…The car looks like the Radio Shack store with all these electronic stuff. Since we are talking about electronic stuff our friend got jealous so he needed to by a device as well so we went to Comp USA. Here is where the trip starts. We have a little of traffic near NY we can shut back the car to a cabriolet ..Thank you for Donald to change ma English…Long drive for about 6 hours and the tomtom tells that we are not even half away to Canada. Huber asks for break. It is almost 1 am. Tomtom gives us directions to a closes hotel. We get in but no one at the reception desk. Finally someone showed up. Got the rooms and went upstairs, second floor. The rooms where next to each other and there was a door connection between them. So we opened the doors and it became like one big house. We were so tired so we failed to sleep right away. After taking a shower in the morning at 7:30 am we found out two things that kind of changed our mood:

1. We had forgotten the tomtom CD that we needed to download the maps of Canada.
2. One of our friends had forgotten the passport at home.

Now we have to drive him to Syracuse in order for him to tale the bus back to NYC.

At this point we are all hungry J ai faim in french…as we did not have breakfast yet. Can’t wait to eat. One of the girls on the back is always sleeping.

We arrive near the bus station so bye bye see you later…

Just at the border before showing our passports we get to the duty free for a small shopping. On the parking lot we start playing soccer. Now it is time to cross the border.

Yeeeeeeaahhhhhhhhh we are in Canada!!! First stop at a place that we don’t even know the name. Stopping on front of a fast food parking lot and started playing volleyball. We see a sign “fly day”. We go but unfortunately the tickets we already sold for that day. We continue our trip to Ottawa. We stop there for lunch. The food was delicious as well the Canada beer. The city is beautiful. It is a mix of European and American style. The park is beautiful. Walking around the city where are a lot of restaurants and street fares. Done with this city. Start driving to Montreal. About 2 hours trip and we are in Montreal. Looking for hotel but all of them are already full. Finally we got one, just the way we wanted. One big apartment with two bedrooms, living room, two bathrooms, and a kitchen. The living room is big enough to play soccer so why not. We move the table and the TV out of the living room and here the match starts. The ball goes to quick from one side to the other of the room. Someone hit the picture on the wall but unfortunately could not break it. Now time to party. Taking a cab to downtown Montreal. A lot of people on the streets. A long line to enter a club but the manager of the club does not make us wait on that line as son as she finds out that we are tourists. The club is huge with three floors where in each floor is played different kind of music. Our favorite is the second floor, techno music. Having a couple of drinks and a lot of dancing until 2am. We are tired and need to go back to the room. Walking up in the morning at 10 am and went for breakfast. After we were done with the breakfast time to jump into the cars and head to another city called …The place is next to a lake. After rented some canoes and kayak, we went to have lunch in a French boulangerie. Saumon and rillettes were really delicisous (the check too…). After this nice moment in Magog, We get back in the car and drove until the border to start thinking about coming back home, or closer. We stopped 2 or 3 hours after the border in a motel, 3 rooms: the girls, the couple and the last one for Donald & Hubert. Breakfast at McDonald to get back to the road for 5 hours of driving. An hour before arriving, after leaving a rest area, the Hubert’s car has a tire starting to blow up. So we changed it with the spare tire and drove slower. We arrive at home around 2pm, that was a nice trip: 3 days, 1300 miles, start at 7 people, back at 6, 2 country, 6 states, 2 cars, only smiles and sunny just when needed J