We talk regularly on the phone but don't get to see each other a lot since in 2005 he moved to Cobourg (1 hour east of Oshawa) and I moved to Kitchener (1 hour West of Mississauga).
I know now how to take the GO Bus/Train Transit successfully. GO Bus from Kitchener, into the heart of Toronto (Union Station) and take the GO Train from there to Oshawa. There. Stephen picked me up on Friday and we went to visit his apartment in Cobourg and on to Frankford, where we stayed at Stephen's parent's place for the weekend.
On Saturday Stephen and I went to Presqu'ile Provincial Park. Stephen told me a lot about the history of it, not a lot of which I remember. This was about halfway between Cobourg and Trenton. Frankford is about 10 to 15 minutes North of Trenton. At Presqu'ile Provincial Park we did two things. Visited an old light house on Lake Ontario and walked across Marsh Land on newly made wooden paths.
At night there was an fundraiser dinner for the youth center of Frankford which Stephen a friend of his and I attended. There was a silent auction there and I bid on a post card size digital picture frame/clock/calander/alarm, and no one out bid me for $20.00 I really enjoy having it.
On Sunday after church we went near Frankford to the Bleasdell Boulder, which is basically a huge rock as you can see bellow.
Later in the afternoon Stephen and I went to Trenton to the National Air Force Museum of Canada.
It was quite impressive. I've been there once. It was right beside the Trenton Air Force Base, where from I believe soldiers get sent overseas, and where all the dead soldiers first arrive from overseas. From this Air Force Base down the Highway 401 to Don Valley in Toronto is where the Expressway 401 is officially called the "Highway of Heroes". On every bridge across the 401 from Trenton to Toronto when a dead Soldier is being moved and along the Expressway stand Police officers, ambulance workers, and other people saluting the family of the deceased soldier with lots of Canadian flags, letting them know that they are not alone in this.
The biggest plain the "Halifax" Stephen says is the only bomber left of its kind.
It crashed in a lake in Normandy (If I remember correctly) and was there for 50 years.
In 1995 they took it out of the lake and fully restored it for the museum as seen in these pictures.
I don't know when I'll be posting next, but as I'm going on a bunch of traveling trips this summer and actually experience things rather than the same old same old I might start posting more too, or I might decide to start post more often travel or not. I don't know yet. So keep an eye open.
Markus
