We're way behind in writing this blog, it's currently Monday and we're just writing up Saturday from our notes. The reasons for this is firstly lack of time, secondly because wifi in North America is about as fast as Steven Hawking taking the stairs to the top of the Empire State and thirdly because Mark doesn't have Tim saying "have you done the blog yet?" Every 10 mins.
Anyway, we carried on our theme of free breakfasts today which serves two purposes of saving us lots of cash but also our waistline. Although saying that, Mark managed to still make a killer sausage sandwich much to the dismay of everyone else in the restaurant as he used up all the sausages.
Following breakie we left for Montreal which is quite a drive. We stopped at the mall on the way (Canada's 3rd largest), both humming 'lets go to the mall' by Robin Scherbatski from How I Met Your Mother (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TP1xlmpNgIo).
Whilst taking advantage of cheap trainers available in Canadia one of the guys there admitted he was a Man Utd fan, so we did the honourable thing and gave him some shit. Mark however had to admit to being a Birmingham fan and it turns out the guy who works in Footlocker was part of the team that played blues in their pre-season matches. That's how good BCFC are, we warm up for the Championship by playing random sales people from a country that can't even get the name of the sport right.
During the long drive we discussed deep important topics such as which female action hero would win a fight (turns out it was Buffy, but The Bride, Hit Girl and Selene were pretty close too).
We stopped at the beach for a break, on the entrance there was a checkpoint where they search your car, but Martin was driving and didn't realise this so he just drove through and waved at them. We stretched our legs for a bit. On the path there was a huge caterpillar and Martin conducted an experiment to see how big of a mound can climb before it struggles. With his cruel streak over we carried on. On our way out the security gate was in chaos with a massive tailback of cars queuing to get through, it seems we must have woken them up.
We opted to stay off the freeways, partly to make the journey more interesting and partly so that it would be harder for the security forces to locate us. One more brief stop was necessary to make use of McDs free wifi before we arrived in Brockville, part of the gorgeous 1000 island area.
We were stopping at a cheap Super 8 motel which was actually the biggest room yet with a great shower and another free breakfast. Win.
Brockville is a small town but we found a nice homely restaurant for dinner. The waitress gave us our drinks then accidentally spilled Mark's everywhere and as the place was so busy she didn't have time to clean it up properly. She came back 5 mins later with two drinks and slipped on the wet floor throwing those everywhere too. Of course we didn't laugh or say anything.
After a very nice meal we headed back to the motel to plan the next few days of the trip. Montreal next, skip Quebec, then the middle of nowhere before Boston and back to New York!
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