Oh...Canada..Eh!

Left for Buffalo, NY bright and early last Saturday morning at 5am in the morning for a weekend in NY State and Ontario. Got to Buffalo by lunch to hang out with our High School Buddies. Yes, both our buddies, Chee Ming is from Penang, and William is from Klang! How cool/weird is that, to have high school buddies in the same area 10,000 miles from Malaysia!

Spent that evening at the American side of the Niagara Falls waiting for Fireworks. Alas, no fireworks, and the mist around the around combined with the 40 degree weather didn't help either... At least we had great company to keep us warm though! Did get some nice night shots of the Falls, which were "spotlighted" from over the Canadian side.



Next morning, our first conversation we had with the Canadian Border Patrol was err.. weird.

Me: (Happy/Chipper, holding out our travel documents)... Hi!
Canadian BP : (Monotone) Country of Citizenship....
Me: Malaysian
CBP : (Monotone) Status in the United States...
Me: Permanent Resident
CDP: Where are you going in Canada?
Me: (Rambling cheerfully) Oh, the first day, we are going to Ontario-By-the Lake to see wineries, then we are going to stay overnight at a B&B, then the second night we are (*Suddenly cut off by CBP.*)
CBP : (Not impressed, abit pissed & impatient) . How many days?
Me : Err... 2 nights, we are driving back through here 2 days from now, then leaving (*cut off again*)
CBP: (Still pissed & tired) GO...

Felt a little cheated actually, to have almost no hassle going over to Canada, especially after being used to the process coming into America... I guess the Canadians do it slightly differently!

When we got to the B&B, we were informed that we were the only people that booked it for the night, we had the whole 4 bedroom cottage to ourselves! (Really handy for the me, the ah-pek to walk down in my underwear to microwave leftovers in the wee-hours of the morning!) Also a great reason to be messy BTW. :) Anyway, moving along... Our Wine tour guide picked us up from the B&B at about 1pm that day, and off we went! 1/2 hour later, we were bundled into the SUV with 2 other Canadian couples, off to the wineries.


Its interesting how people get friendlier the more alchohol we consume! We rode in silence to the 1st winery, but by the 2nd one, we were sharing crackers, by the 3rd one we were stealing crackers! By the last one, we were engaged in deep political conversations about Canadian healthcare without any prior knowledge! Here's a shot of Yeesin playing around with the Oak barrels in one of the wine cellars! Did we have fun? Yep. Well, when we were dropped off about 5 hrs later at the B&B, with about 7 bottles of wine boxed up! Didn't have any concerns of how to bring them up to the plane until much later!