Vacation Recap, Part 1

Here is a highlight of things that transpired during the course of my vacation, as promised.

::::I woke up the last day I had to work before vacation (Saturday) with a vicious cold. I spent pretty much the whole day having this conversation:

Person: You sound like you have a cold.
Me: You're damb ride I hab a code.
Person: Don't you go on vacation tomorrow?
Me: Yeb
Person: Dude, that sucks.
Me: Thangs, I know.

::::Monday, Julia and I departed early for our drive to London, Ontario to pick up Mark . Let me tell you a couple things about this drive. One, the Canadian border guards are much nicer and more welcoming than the American ones. I know it's their job to ask questions and put you off your guard, but damn. It did not speed up matters that we were bringing someone in from a third country, but thankfully the scary lady only asked us questions and we did not end up getting strip searched on the side of the road.

Another thing, Ontario (at least the part we were in) is flat. Very flat. Kind of like how Wood County is flat. It takes almost two hours to drive from Windsor to London. I know I referred to it as the Highway of Monotony at least once. I offer these pictures as proof. One of them is from Ontario, the other is from Wood County, Ohio. If you can tell which one is which you get a prize.

I guess if you want something different to look at on the drive there is always the squalid industrial wasteland that lays about Detroit.

After we collected Mark (who is totally cool in the RL, btw), drove back to the States, walked to the video store, went for groceries, (it was a long day), and had dinner we were picked up by my roommate and headed out to have drinks. We went to Uptown/Downtown, which is two bars, a sports bar downstairs, and Uptown which is more of a club. Monday is 80's night. There was this dude in the a sleeveless shirt and gloves doing some sweet dance moves. He was totally into it, and I'm sorry we didn't get any video.

More to come and all my pictures are on my flickr.