• A bear!

    I woke up this morning and when I looked out the window, I saw very large snowflakes. I did not think that we would actually see snow on this trip. Lucky the rental car came with a snow brush.  We had a delicious (and free) breakfast at the Chili’s restaurant in the lobby of the hotel,…

  • We never get an upgrade

    It’s that time of year again … the birthday vacation. It has been almost six months since the last big vacation. You can’t really count the trip to Florida since it was only a couple of days. We wanted to go somewhere where we could use our Aeroplan miles. After much investigation, we settled on…

  • Homeward bound

    Once we got up, had breakfast and got the car packed back up, we were on the road before 9:00am today.  It wasn’t a far drive, actually it was just across the street to our first stop, the Christmas Tree Shops.  We got there just as the doors opened and we were the first ones…