Well we certainly had a busy long weekend. Mine started on Friday, I went up North to find Highway 518 as I heard it’s an amazing highway and was not disappointed. I took advantage because Maggie had to work while Brandon also had school so I was free lol. Highway 518 is amazing, so many twists and turns very pleasurable road to drive on but just don’t get stuck behind a slow vehicle because there aren’t many passing opportunities.
The video is 49 minutes long and the fun starts at around 12:25. Mmm the Lexus IS 350 AWD handles so well (compared to my old NX & Prius which to be fair doesn’t say much lol), almost no body roll when I’m cornering and with the Michelin Pilot Sport AS4 tires, I have so much grip! Too bad the car sucks so bad with gas mileage though, that’s really its Achilles heel.
Saturday we went as a family for dim sum and that was good, the wind storm passed through Toronto and knocked down a lot of trees and power to our house for 11 hours. That was a bit of a pain but lol I was prepared and ready for that situation so no harm. Brandon spent most of the afternoon away too at his friend’s house to celebrate a birthday which make it easy for us.
Just some of the carnage from a walk in the afternoon with Maggie in our neighborhood. Overall we were pretty lucky, I read that there were 10 deaths related to the storm in Ontario & Quebec which is sad.
Sunday Maggie & Brandon went to play badminton while I watched the F1 race, in the early afternoon Maggie on a whim wanted to go see the fireworks in Niagara Falls so we booked a hotel and stayed the night.
Needless to say the place was so busy on a long weekend, we got into town around 6, Brandon went for a swim for a bit and we went out for dinner around 730. After dinner we walked around then parked ourselves close to the American falls at 9:20pm as that’s where the fireworks show is and starts at 10pm.
Sigh I wish I had my tripod so I could do some longer exposure shots but these were all hand held I think at a 1/10s shutter speed. In the morning we decided to visit the butterfly conservatory before heading back and that place is alwasy fun.
They’re so cool and very difficult to shoot when flying! It’s nice how close you can get to the various butterflies and even touch them (gently of course). After that we decided to drive home slowly, there are some fun roads in the Niagara region so I took local back for half the trip then hopped on the QEW when it got pretty urban.
Slinky really missed us and it’s nice to be home, sigh too bad the weekend is over already and it’s after tiring ones like this that I wish I were retired.
