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Day 5

We went to the beach on Lake Ontario this morning. It was a lovely sandy beach and a fine day for a walk. Nice and sunny. 

                     

Such a shame, then, that there had to be an attack squad of wasps waiting for me. Those black and yellow pricks just love themselves a slice. I did my best impression of a grown up and just carried on walking, flinching only occasionally when they flew directly at my face. 

We walked up to the top of the head and could see the CN tower down in Toronto. 

Afterwards we headed over to the Oshawa centre which is a mall. I reverted back into a child taken to the shops, not saying what I wanted to look at/get I just sulked and didn't talk to anyone. Should have just spoken up... I'll just have to suggest we go shopping again and remain impervious to my own stupidity.

We walked through some botanical garden... since the weather was so nice it was actually quite a nice stroll. Shame we'd already walked a million miles and my legs hurt like a bitch.

Finally we did a guided tour of an old house from a similar time period as Casa Loma. It was fairly interesting. There was some intricate electrical wiring to link clocks and radios etc, along with some hidden doors and other concealments. The past is interesting to a point, it's just I was incredibly hungry and really wanted to leave. Because we turned up slightly late, the tour guide offered to take us back to the entrance hall and do the intro at the end. We agreed, much to my stomach's disgust, although she seemed to forget when we'd joined the tour. She asked us for the second time whether we noticed anything about the marble panels on the wall. "Aren't they.... painted? That's not real marble it's painted!" I say whilst managing to keep a straight face. She says not once in 6 years has anyone noticed that. 

"Are you into art?" Oh yeah, big time.

 Once we had finally been picked up we went over to wallmart and I got a Wendy's with Mike. Awwww yisssssss. 

Currently trying to organise my couch surfing account to search for possible places to stay once my welcome wears out here.

Day 6

We went to Niagara today which was awesome. The drive took about 2 hours but it was well worth it. First we went on a walk down past the falls all the way up to the 'horseshoe' falls, where you get a fair soaking just from the spray in the air. We took some pictures and watched the falls for a while.

 We then headed back down the road for the boat tour. No longer named maiden of the mist on the Canadian side; we hopped on the hornblower with our snazzy waterproof ponchos on and once again took a shower in the spray of both sets of falls. We had a far better view than the American side could ever dream of from the 'banks' of the river, but the boat trip was something else entirely. You get right up close to the 'horseshoe' falls and the sheer power of the water is unavoidable. We also got to travel down behind the falls, which again was amazing. The greatness and immense power of it makes you realise how insignificant we are in the world. Deep man.

After a quick Burger King lunch, we went and found a shitty snow globe souvenir for mum and a Niagara jumper for Pam. The final activity for the day was glow in the dark crazy wizard golf. It was a real laugh... although there was a severe lack of wizards. Dragon golf would be better. I choked and Mike won overall... bastard. We got Dairy Queen ice creams and headed home. Awesome day.