Mar 30th 2011, 20:04:28
Yeah, me and my family went up to Canada for our summer vacation once...like 15 years ago or so. Most of our travel was around Niagara Falls.
We first stopped at Toledo, Ohio, because one of my uncles lived there, and bunked there for a couple days. When I first stepped out of our vehicle, I asked my dad what that 'stench' was. He said, up there, they have big pipes under the streets whose only purpose was in shuffling people's crap to the nearest sewage treatment facility. Interesting.
Our first stop once inside Canada was at a restaurant, which name I don't really remember; it was that bland.
We had to literally teach them how to make sweet iced tea.
Dad: Yeah, I'd like some sweet tea.
Waiter: eh?
They served us hot tea, with NO sugar, and NO ice. I think most of them spoke French or something, because I kinda sorta remember a lack of communication going on. Eventually, I just wrote down a recipe for sweet tea, and gave it to the waiter, being I was the one who made the tea at our house. They then served us sweet, hot tea. We then asked for a glass full of ice. They gave us each a glass of ice. We poured our sweet, hot tea into our glasses of ice, drank, and gave them a thumbs up. People sitting a table next to us looked at us curiously. Almost exactly the way the border checkpoint lady looked at us when we were entering Canada:
Lady (with emotionless face): What country do you come from?
Dad: (with huge, exaggerated, Southern drawl) Flawda! (meaning, Florida).
Me: Sigh...
I also remember the horrible taxes. I bought a souvenir, one of those toy, red, double-decker buses. Cost me $15 USD. Most of it was taxes. Never again did we want to go there.
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