July 4, 2010 Frankford, Ontario
Sue- So I showed up yesterday, a week into the trip. Marc made arrangements for me to fly to Toronto. It was a great flight on a little American Eagle plane, it took only 1-1/2 hours, there were no clouds. I saw the Boston Harbor Islands sitting in clean water so that they looked like they were growing out of the water. I could see their rock and sand bases. Then I saw so many pretty parcels of land, as you do from a plane, though I had no idea where we were until the flight attendant pointed
out Niagara Falls to me. That was very cool. Then we flew around Lake 
Ontario and into Toronto.
Marc and the girls were there when I cleared customs and we had a nice reunion. They had called me seventeen times a day each day since they'd left, and it was reassuring to know they were safe. We were amazed by Toronto! It is huge, clean, there were swarms of people walking everywhere. There are no cars parked on the sides of the roads, but there are parking garages underground and at ground level everywhere. There is a tremendous amount of building going on. There appear to be a lot of apartment buildings all around the city, and as we drove out of the city we saw fairly tall apartment buildings for MILES. I have never seen so many apartment buildings. We must have been 15 or 20 miles out of the downtown area before we saw a single family home. The downtown is huge and right in the middle of it is parkland and the stately University of Toronto campus. We also walked through the Fairmont Hotel (The Royal York Hotel) where Marc's Uncle Clement worked in his youth. The population was very international and we had dinner at a waterfront Chinese restaurant. The Tall ships were docked right out front. Marc drove us back to Trenton to CFB (Canadian Forces Base Yacht Club).
Today at Trenton, we entered the Trent-Severn Waterway, saw a Swan couple and their babies, an Osprey, and 6 locks. It was really HOT, but there is a breeze, the skies are clear blue, so it's hard to find fault with the weather. Our spot in Frankford is idyllic. We are tied up in the lock, we have weeping willows for shade, benches and picnic tables. We even went for a swim in the canal.
Sue- So I showed up yesterday, a week into the trip. Marc made arrangements for me to fly to Toronto. It was a great flight on a little American Eagle plane, it took only 1-1/2 hours, there were no clouds. I saw the Boston Harbor Islands sitting in clean water so that they looked like they were growing out of the water. I could see their rock and sand bases. Then I saw so many pretty parcels of land, as you do from a plane, though I had no idea where we were until the flight attendant pointed
out Niagara Falls to me. That was very cool. Then we flew around Lake 
Ontario and into Toronto.Marc and the girls were there when I cleared customs and we had a nice reunion. They had called me seventeen times a day each day since they'd left, and it was reassuring to know they were safe. We were amazed by Toronto! It is huge, clean, there were swarms of people walking everywhere. There are no cars parked on the sides of the roads, but there are parking garages underground and at ground level everywhere. There is a tremendous amount of building going on. There appear to be a lot of apartment buildings all around the city, and as we drove out of the city we saw fairly tall apartment buildings for MILES. I have never seen so many apartment buildings. We must have been 15 or 20 miles out of the downtown area before we saw a single family home. The downtown is huge and right in the middle of it is parkland and the stately University of Toronto campus. We also walked through the Fairmont Hotel (The Royal York Hotel) where Marc's Uncle Clement worked in his youth. The population was very international and we had dinner at a waterfront Chinese restaurant. The Tall ships were docked right out front. Marc drove us back to Trenton to CFB (Canadian Forces Base Yacht Club).
Today at Trenton, we entered the Trent-Severn Waterway, saw a Swan couple and their babies, an Osprey, and 6 locks. It was really HOT, but there is a breeze, the skies are clear blue, so it's hard to find fault with the weather. Our spot in Frankford is idyllic. We are tied up in the lock, we have weeping willows for shade, benches and picnic tables. We even went for a swim in the canal.
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