Laura and Tim's excellent Thanksgiving Adventure #1

It all started Friday afternoon after a midterm and some frantic packing. Tim and I set out along the QEW, headed for the border. We were on our way to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania for Mike Stover's wedding (Mike is a friend of Tim's from high school). We ran into a little traffic around Oakville, but it was nothing compared to the traffic that awaited us at the border. Little did we know, there was a two and a half hour wait to cross into the US....and yes, we did have to wait in line......inching along, stop go......stop (turn the car off).....go......it was awful

Needless to say, we eventually crossed the border, and at that point, it was about 7:15pm. Very soon after we got across the border, we saw a restaurant called "Bob Evans" - apparently they're all over the place in the US. We had never seen one and proceeded to joke about it for the next 10 minutes of our journey. Now Tim and I were both hungry, so we started wondering where we were going to eat and when that would be. One of the main differences between American and Canadian highways is that there isn't a service station or restaurant at every exit. So we decided that the next place we saw would be where we'd eat for dinner. And just to make things fun, we placed bets on what would be the next restaurant we came across. Tim put his faith in Mc'Ds or Wendy's, and I thought I'd give Bob Evans a try. :p

Nearly an hour passed before we came across a restaurant, and what did it happen to be!??!?
BOB EVANS!!!! Unfortunately, the food didn't turn out to be that great (I don't recommend the chicken pot pie, it tasted more like fish pot pie) but they did have FANTASTIC pumpkin bread. So good that when I checked the nutrtition statement I nearly died.....500 calories for two little slices of it. :( So good but so bad....


We didn't end up getting to our hotel (Ya Econolodge!!) until 12:30 am, and didn't get to bed until after 1. As you can probably imagine, I was a little grumpy (long car ride + late night = grumpy laura) but when we woke up in the morning, my mood was definitely improved! There was a MALL just across the road!! And there were a whole bunch of stores I'd never seen, so I dragged Tim to the mall for over an hour, and in the process bought a really cute dress from JC Penney's, some pumpkin flavored fudge, and a few Christmas ideas. :P

We were off to the wedding for 2 pm, and boy did the bride and groom look great! :)

Tim was helping take pictures, so I didn't get to see as much of him as I would have liked, but I know he had fun! The funny part is that Tim was so busy taking pictures, that we didn't get any pictures of he and I together. These are the only pictures from the day of Tim or I:














It was a nice wedding, and I met some nice people at our table. There was one guy at our table that had known Mike from undergrad, and it turned out that he lives in the same building as us! Crazy eh? It takes going to Pennsylvania to meet your neighbors...... Anyway, the wedding ended around 6 pm, so Tim and I went to WalMart and bought a few things - including peanut butter hershey's kisses (my new obsession) and then spent the evening hanging out with Heather and Roger Heidt (Roger was the official photographer) and sorting pictures from the wedding. It was a fun evening and we got to bed much later than anticipated. But we still managed to get up by 6 am (ish) :P and after a quick bite to eat at the continental breakfast, which was quite good I might add, Tim and I started our trip home.

I really enjoyed the trip home because it had been dark on the way there, and I had not realised how beautiful the scenery was. In fact, there was one spot where there was this beautiful firey red maple standing in the middle of a field (well actually it turned out to be a cemetary). It was so beautiful, I dropped Tim off and he took pictures while I took the car up the road and got gas.



The remainder of the ride home consisted of beautiful mountain scenery and Tim hanging out the window taking pictures for me. We were in a rush to get home because my family was coming over to our place for a Thanksgiving dinner. I'll pick up there next post. :P