The Beautiful Thousand Islands

Yay for me, another trip! Thanks to Leo and Milton's GPS, we finally arrived at our lodge in the beautiful 1000 Islands a bit past midnight last Friday. The minute we checked into our rooms, the girls were all dead on their beds and the guys tried forever to get the TV to work so they can play some videogames. Unfortunately they couldn't get it to work before they went to bed, Milton even dreamt about himself trying to fix the TV! You know how much of a gamer he is when he dreams about these things. He even woke up at 7 the next morning to ask the front desk to fix the TV!

Anyways! After breakfast at the lodge, we drove around, went up to the Skydeck to do some sight seeing. It was beautiful up there! Leo even went "around the world" in 10 seconds!





Of course we had our professional photographer on this trip and he's just getting set up...
The above was a photo taken from the Skydeck of our lodge.

And of course I had to grab a free Skydeck postcard to send to my Kai Goh Goh since he sent me two when he went to San Francisco and Las Vegas.

Then we had lunch and went on the cruise to see the Boldt Castle on Heart Island. The Island is indeed kinda in a heart shape.

Photo courtesy of www.empire.state.ny.us

It wasn't all fun and play, we had some educational moments too!


After the cruise and Boldt Castle, some of us wanted to go walk around while the others wants to go to the Duty Free shop that was close by. Why shop on my vacation when I can do that any time in Montreal?? So I went with a few people to check out the little town of Gananoque. We didn't have a purpose or destination really, just enjoyed walking around, seeing things and just relaxing. I loved sitting on the dock and just did basically nothing... although I didn't look too happy here... but it was great, I promise! I was reading about the Boldt Castle and the history behind it, so I think I was just a li'l confused when LP stole this shot.This was the Town Hall...Guess who's who in this photo below!We met up for dinner, went to DQ, went back to the lodge to play some games and that pretty much concluded our Saturday. Felt like we did so much and saw so many things.

Sunday... of course we can't miss service two weeks in a row! We had a super mini Sunday Service. As you can tell, everyone was half asleep...



Before we headed back to Montreal, we made an hour detour to Smiths Falls to visit Hershey's Chocolate Factory. It smelt sooooooo good in there. We all went crazy! Too bad we couldn't see any chocolates being made since it was Sunday. Of course, they don't work on Sundays, this is not HK, you know. We didn't even leave the shop yet, we were already stuffing down the chocolates.



After visiting the chocolate factory/shop, we decided to go to the nearby town to grab some food and hopefully catch one of the parades that was taking place that weekend. I had the best ribs ever at this Pub in town.
Unfortunately, Gloria was in pain (as you can tell from the photo) and had to go to the hospital. ER was full of people, but no biggie, she can handle it! **HUG**
I think if she wasn't in pain on our way back, some of us would have dropped by Ottawa to stay over for one night and visit some of their museums. No worries, there's still time left in the summer to go to Ottawa. We might even be able to squeeze Toronto in there somewhere. Gotta take advantage of the $10 bus tickets from Mtl to TO! Then that would really be my last trip before I marry off! **sniff, sniff** I really do treasure every minute of these moments with our friends. Who knows where everyone will be 3, 5 or 10 years down the road??