After slowing down for a bit, I'm up to full speed again!
Just a quick response to the comments under my last blog:
Noddy: I must have been to honest ;) Nope actually you can ask the mulders...i even mentioned how awesome Armadale is in a play Bec and I did at Kym's wedding!
Maybe he understood that I STILL lived in Armadale when I told him that i used to live there...I mean, that we explain the outcome of his decision!
Aunty Maria: Thankfully Irene didn't do to much damage in New York! The people I stayed with are Trevor and Vanessa Hekkert.
The day after I wrote my last blog (Saturday) Bev and I took the bus to Hamilton.
I wasn't feeling to well, so Bev gave me some gravol. It is mainly for motion sickness, but Bev warned me that some people do get a tad drowsy from it. It knocked me out!!! It was the best!
I'm not sure about this girl...she comes to Holland and takes me to the pub while I should be at school...I come to Winnipeg and she takes me to a casino...and now she is feeding me drugs!!! ;)
We took the greyhound bus from Ottawa to Toronto, which was about a 4 hour bus ride. If I can help it, I will never put a foot on a greyhound bus ever again! You have absolutely no space! However, because I took the wonderful gravol, I slept for about 3 hours! Apparently there were a lot of people talking loud and kids crying, but I didn't hear anything!
When we got to Toronto we planned to take the train to Hamilton (1 hour train ride). The bus driver told us that it was to far to walk to the train station and we should really take a cab. He was willing to take us there, but because it was the funeral of Jack Layton, some of the streets were closed off. Bev and I decided that we could just start walking and see how far we would come. We made it easily to the train station.
The amount of times I have heard: you really can't do that with your backpack!
Well I have proved them wrong every time! I know the back pack is pretty much 60% of my size, I must be tougher then I look!
We got to the station and wow, that station is confusing and chaotic! Anyway, we made it to the train and to Burlington, where Vanessa picked us up and took her to her house in Hamilton.
Bev and I knew Vanessa because she also came to Holland the same time Bev came to Holland.
That night we just chilled and watched a movie.
The next day Bev and I went to church with Vanessa and Trevor (Vanessa's husband).
The rest of the day we just had a great old-fashioned sunday and did absolutely nothing!
The next morning (Monday) it was time to go back to Toronto and sleep there for 2 nights. I really wasn't feeling that well and was tempted to just stay in Hamilton, but I hoped that by being active, I would feel better soon.
Well...I thought wrong. We got to Toronto and because Bev wasn't feeling to crash hot either we took a taxi to our hostel. We had actually booked a hostel way out of downtown (which we only realized when the taxi took 20 minutes to get to our hostel) so that was a bit of a bummer already.
We could check in early and we went for a walk down the street. We found this really cool Italian place and I was able to have about 5 bites of food, before I really needed to go back to the hostel and go to bed.
To keep a long story short...I stayed in the the hostel till Wednesday afternoon.
The owner of the hostel actually lived in the hostel as well and the common area was actually pretty much his living area. It was a bit creepy! There was a tv in the common area that we were allowed to use, but it was clearly the owners tv. The good part is that he was a fan of Law and Order and records all the episodes...so I got to watch that for 2 days!
Bev went back home on Wednesday morning and I could go back to Vanessa's place in the afternoon.
It was soooo great to be able to sleep in a good bed and have a room aaaaaall to yourself!!
On Thursday I had one of the best days ever! Vanessa has all the seasons of Gilmore Girls, so I watched that for like 9 hours straight! In the episodes I watched Rory goes to Washington and New York :D and in one of the episodes they go to martha's vinyard...I thought this was just a made up place untill I got to Boston airport yesterday and there was a flight to Martha's vinyard!!! There you go..Gilmore girls is not only the funniest tv series EVER....it's even educational!
On friday I was feeling a bit better so Vanessa took me to her work in the morning so I could get my glasses adjusted. They are soooo comfortable now...I even WANT to wear them!
After that I walked to the train station and went to Toronto for the day. I went back to Hamilton in the afternoon and at night Vanessa and Trever took me along to someones birthday party.
On Saturday I didn't do much besides going to some stores with Vanessa.
On Sunday I went to Hamilton church again.
Monday was a public holiday and Vanessa and Trevor had a family thing to go to. Vanessa dropped me off in Niagara falls in the morning.
I spend the day walking around in Niagara Falls, seeing movies about the falls, going up a tower, doing some shopping and going on the Maid of the Mist. It was really nice to see the falls and it was cool to take photo's, but to be honest, I think it is a tiny bit over rated. I mean the falls are great, but everything around it felt a bit tacky. However I am glad I have seen it.
On tuesday I took the train from Niagara Falls to Buffalo (USA). I got on the train, the train went over a bridge and I was in the states! We had to wait (and stay on the train) for 2 hours to get clearance from customs. The custom officers weren't actually to bad! I thought it was interesting that they just asked a few question...they didn't check any bags and they didn't have dogs or anything.....so next time........
After we kept going it was only a 45 minute ride to buffalo. I got off the train and had a bit of a culture shock.......Everything looked so dodgy! I went outside the station to look for a taxi, but I couldn't find any. Just as I went back inside a taxi rocked up because someone else needed one as well. I told the taxi driver that I needed one as well and he said someone would be there soon. I thought he meant that if I would phone them they would be there soon. So I went back inside and tried to use the pay phone. I really hope I'm never going to be stuck somewhere where I can only use a pay phone. I have no idea how to use those things!!!! As i was struggling with the stupid phone, all of a sudden a guy comes up to me and asks me: You rang for a cab? I was rather confused and said: Well I'm trying to, but it's not working. He just gave me a confused look. So now we were both confused! Seeing the rest of the station was pretty forsaken, it was obvious that I was the only person that still needed a taxi. When I was in the taxi, the driver explained to me that the other driver had called him on the radio....Ooooh, now I get it! If he wouldn't have done that, I would still be standing in buffalo trying to figure out how to use this phone!!
The cab driver was so funny! He heard that I came from Australia and he asked me all about the kangaroos. He had this big story about how in Australia the kangaroos must just jump right on top of cars etc. He was so into his whole theory that I just let him believe it....He is never going to get to Australia anyway...so he won't know any better :)
I got to the Buffalo airport and had to wait for about 5 hours. I could already check in a go through security. Let me tell you...buffalo is not the most exciting airport to be at....they have 2 shops and a food court with 3 take away places! At least it gave me a good opportunity to finish reading sense and sensibility.
When I thought that my waiting time had finally come to an end, they announced that my flight was delayed for another 2 hours! So instead of leaving at 6pm we left at 8 pm. I flew to Boston and thankfully the flight from Boston to Washington was delayed as well.
I got into Washington at 11.30pm and took a cab to the hostel. I have to say, I love cabdrivers! You can have the most interesting conversations with them! And seeing you are only in the car for 15 minutes, you can say pretty much anything!
Anyway, I would like to thank everyone for their comments and emails :)
It's always good to know that your not forgotten even when you're on the other side of the world!
I don't think I am able to upload any pictures. You might just have to wait untill i'm back in Australia.
