Well I've left it almost a month to post again as I thought I would give Oakville a good explore first. We were really glad to be out of the apartment as its was a little cramped to say the least. The house is small but in the best location ever, I still cant get over trotting out 20 paces to the Lakeshore! Most mornings Tasha and I go for a walk round the marina and harbour. Its magical and I cant imagine ever tiring of it.
Well the owners of this house are a lovely couple and we get on very well with them, its a shame really that they don't live next door or something. They now own a fabulous B&B in Port Delousi which is like a Canadian Henley.
Tasha and I have a car now so we go zooping off somewhere most days. I have to say somewhere because most of the time I don't have the first idea where we are going? Poor Tasha I keep yelling left/right with no real idea of where we are. Honestly to say I am a member of 'Where the f**krwe tribe' has to be the understatement of the century!!!!!. Apparently I have now started to navigate alone in the malls, I always get lost and Tasha is a nervous wreck by the time shes found me. Its most unsettling as I could be gone for days when she gets a job :( The problem is everywhere looks the same, there are no reference points for me to go by unlike old Blighty. As Tasha tells everyone she knew the problem was bad but nothing like as bad as the real thing :(
Anyway suffice to say we have now done most of the malls, they are excellent all of them, unfortunately I couldn't tell you which one I like better as I cant remember, but I do know they are all good. The place I do love the most is Oakville town itself its really fantastic and has everything you ever need. There is a Melonhead which is a child's hairdressing salon where they get to sit in planes and spaceships to get their hair cut, a psychic reading shop, great butcher/fishmonger, restaurants, clothes shops honestly the list is endless.
We have been to Niagara Falls in the day and night, god in heaven its awesome. For some reason you feel compelled to throw yourself over and into the falls, I don't know why but its weird. We have not been on the maid of the mist boat as that doesn't start until Easter.
We have been to Buffalo basically for no other reason than because we can :) its about 1.5 hours away and means we drive into America, what we didn't realise is that we would be held at Customs for 1.5 hours as we did not have the green card that a plane gives you! So had to wait a-g-e-s. Anyway when you get to the Galleria its all duty free for us so its work a visit, that's unless your with The Nationwide then its total crap because they stop your card as a safety measure!!!! But get out before nightfall as that seems to be when the Gangsters shop!
Tasha has joined a gym and is doing all sorts of classes, well being a goddess does mean upkeep. I have joined a Aqua class and am the youngest by at least 500 years, they are very sweet and I'm amazed everyone keeps up, well that's what I thought but Tasha said that all they were doing was getting in the middle and talking, the teacher loved us as we were the only 2 people listening to her!!! However now I've been here a month I am resolved to join other things now in Oakville, at the moment its something called Spring Break which basically means everyone is off. Personally I think its an extended Paddy's Day celebration with a couple extra thrown in for hangover purposes!
Just had to interrupt the flow because my lovely neighbour Yvonne has just skyped me, I miss her sooooooooo much. Skyping is a bitter sweet thing really as you are overjoyed to see family and friends then really sad when its all over :( But I have been able to speak to Sam and see Layla and Harvey each week which has meant the world to me. I've also Skyped with Campbells and Mothies which have been hilarious are they are usually 14 bottles of fizz down and its late afternoon for us so its really funny.
Anyway bye for now will start to blog much more regularly from now on....
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