Blame Canada....
Well made it into the North American continent without too many dramas....
Photos thus far are up http://lucas.intercate.net/gallery/Canada
Farah and I landed and were whisked straight back to her parents place for Sunday Roast... talk about meet the parents!!!! Like long flight and straight into their living room with extended family... eating... chatting.... well they were... I was just smiling trying to not say anything out of line.... whilst stressing that I had 30minutes to get back to the airport and meet the boys..... Thankfully Arif (Farah's 19yo bro) drives slightly/alot faster than Daddy Hack... we made it back there on time... And the journey into the "Deep South" of Canada began... And what a country town this place is.... everyone drives a car, like even if it is a 300m drive to the corner store... everyone smiles and knows people by their names... and no black people or foreign cars anywhere... very different to Toronto....
Anyways first night we killed ourselves with my duty free alcohol (well actually Nick's Jonnie Walker.. and the Rum from Amanda and Trent... thanks guys!!!).... and then spent the next day recovering.... Then Adrian comes out the following night and we kill ourselves again.... See photo of Adrian:
http://lucas.intercate.net/gallery/Canada/DSC03012_Small
By now we are really getting ourselves a name in this little town... well it is all in good fun.... Right!?!?!
Then we head off to Niagara and we have the "Bucks Night" [insert your version of events here] rest assured no laws were broken and we were all pretty well behaved..... Well we all woke up in one piece anyways.... A special thanks to Leo for recommending venues and Ryan for continually putting the heating in our room to hot at full power....
The falls were amazing.... really impressive... but in true capitalistic style (i.e. getting as much money out of everything and to hell with respect for nature....) the whole place was basically a theme park.... I mean what kind of breed of human surrounds one of the wonders of the natural world with gambling, strip clubs and hoer houses??? Hmmm.... Well North Americans will be north Americans and business is business.... Well I wont rant...
Then I was off to Toronto to continue mission: MEET THE PARENTS. And results were a success.... add in helping Mrs. Hack's 50th B'day preps... chatting to whole family.... getting seal of approval from Dr. Hack (which from all reports "takes time".... well I think passing a body examination and full blood test screening by the good Dr. helped my cause [this is a story for another day ;-0 ]. Well all went well and Farah and I are now planning out options for the future..... Funny how life can work out....
All in all everything is good. Canada is lovely, I will resist my urge to go into commenting on their unsustainable lifestyle and how taking away their nice personalities and slightly more liberal politics you are left with the 51st State of the USA, and say that I am happy to be in love with a lovely lady from this grand Country.....
Now we are in the home stretch for Crouchies wedding... all plans are set in place and prayers will be made for good weather....
After the wedding Lambert and I are off to the birthplace of America's motor industry and car culture (and inevitably the destruction of the world's environment) and of course home of the SuperCop ... "RoboCop"!!!! Constable Crouch eat your heart out!!!! Detroit here we come!!!!
