[NefCanuck]

Day Two

Day two (Saturday) starts out much like day one, except this time the heat has decided to take an unscheduled vacation and the room is approximately 12C when I got up :blink:

This day's activities were more my choice, do which ones struck my fancy. Since I wasn't keen on standing as a race marshall at 9AM for the soapbox derby through Wiarton, I decided to take in the breakfast at the B&B where I was staying...

It was so good that it should have been illegal to eat that well :ph34r: Homemade bread, peameal bacon, an omlette and tomato slices.

Around lunchtime I'm getting ready to attend the parade through town, the snow has picked up again and I'm a little leery of taking the hill outside the B&B again as the plows haven't been through yet. The B&B owners come through once again, giving me a lift into town in the truck that the husband uses for plumbing jobs, he guesses the truck clocks in at 7,000lbs fully loaded and is RWD but powers up the hill like it was dry as a bone :o

The parade was hilarious as the snow has really started coming down now and so I'm bundled up in a black overcoat over my tuxedo, a borrowed jacket to keep my legs warm. I've be put on a parade float in a Muskoka chair and for whatever reason I just decided to go with it and kept asking for someone in the crowd to get me a margarita :P

After the parade, most of the "shadow cabinet" retires to a local inn and I immediately ordered a Spanish coffee (Not that I even like 'em, but it was warming and had booze in it, so there you go :lol:)

Next the cabinet goes to a "bone china tea" which mostly consists of finger foods and real tea served in real bone china (dainty assed cups though, one sip and you've taken out half the teacup)

I head back to the inn, have a few beers and get taken back to the B&B, the weather has really gone into the dumper now so I decided to forgo any of the evening activities. The B&B owners invite me to stay in teh house and we watch some movies. Deloris Clayborne and The Seventh Sign (their picks) and Robin Williams - Live at the Metropolitan Opera House (Mine)

Next morning I'm back in my civilian clothes and looking outside at a sky that does not look safe to drive in, since its grey as hell and dumping snow steadily but after seeing nothing about road closures on any of the available media (Internet, Sat TV, local radio) so after another delicous breakfast (vegetarian this time to accomidate other guests) I pack up and make my way home.

Lordy, if I didn't have the Nokians I would have been screwed, blued & tattooed several times over, the 6 leaving Wiarton was basically a blizzard until outside Hepworth. I hit Ferndale and the #10 is actually closed but since the local cops can offer no other way for me to get home, I take my chances and proceed along the #10, just biding my time streching a three hour trip into four and a half, but I made it back in one piece instead of several ;) blowing by IIRC four road closures (Gawd, I'm such a rebel :P)

and now the moment you've all been waiting for (stop throwing those tomatoes damnit :P)

Pictures!

The main house at the Bay View B&B:


The building containing my room:


Luba Goy & I after the prediction ceremony:


Wiarton's Mayor, Wiarton Willie mascot & I @ Special Olympics presentation:


Me in the Wiarton Willie parade


More photos @ my photobucket site:
Wiarton 2007 photo album

NefCanuck