Let's Meet in Niagara-on-the-Lake!

konakat

I've marked my calendar for Aug 7th!  Woohoo!!!!

konakat

It would be fun to to some tastings at the vineyards.  And dining.  Pretending we're women of leisure.  And lots of yakking!  I'm excited!!!

Enjoyful

I may be in the Guelph area for a few weeks around that time, visiting with my boyfriend.  But he's been forewarned about the drunken, coffee-and-iced-tea-drinkin', cake-eatin', peach-pickin' breast cancer sisters' gathering.

I can't wait!!

bluedahlia

If you're in Guelph, go to the Aberfoyle Antique Market.  My SO and I go often.  They have many unique things.

hrf

For those of you who are staying overnight, where do you plan to stay?

Enjoyful

Dahlia - I think I went there four or five years ago.  I'm not an antiques kind of person but enjoyed the visit.

I'll be staying overnight, hrf, but no idea where yet.  Should we coordinate and have a pajama party?  :-)

barbe1958

Some places are pretty pricey: The Oban Inn, Prince of Wales, and there's another one on the park I forget....

Maybe someone (?) can get us a rate at a local place? Doesn't have to be the expen$ive one.... 

Enjoyful

I could write to or call a couple of B&Bs and inns/hotels and see if they'd be willing to give us a special rate.  What do you guys think?

barbe1958

I'd love that, and also to have a pj party!!! We can return to our DH's later. I need the Friday night, maybe the Saturday, I have to check to see which days I booked off work.

Enjoyful

Sounds like fun!  I'll start emailing some of the local places and report back later.  :-)

Frankie_

Hi Girls,

You can count me in! I 'm looking forward to meeting everyone!

Frankie

Frankie_

I will also bring along another girl (who I met) at my cancer center. We went through treatment together and will live 15 minutes from one another and have become good friends. Her name is Heather. I think she's registered here but is not on the boards as often as I am.

lewing

I am going to try my darndest to be there, if I can figure out the logistics.  I'm spending the first week in August at a house on the wrong Great Lake (Michigan) with my boyfriend's family (our annual 1 house/3 generations/20 people gathering-of-the-clan,) and the second week at a meeting in northern Michigan: a lot of driving already, so what's a little more?   But I'm afraid I may just plain run out of hours to get from hither to yon.

Linda

hrf

Sometimes even places like Queen's Landing or Pillar and the Post will have a special rate. But if we can get a deal at a B & B that's fine with me. Thanks for checking, enjoyful. 

barbe1958

B&B's can be wonderful! We've stayed at 2 in St. Jacobs, Benjamins and Jakobstel (sp?) and enjoyed them both, so NOTL can only be better!

Luah

Linda and other ladies:  Darn, I am going to miss it!  Hubby and I just booked a trip to Bahamas to celebrate the end of my treatment, Aug. 4-9 - we were trying to fit the dates around sons' plans and onc appointment and hubby's work... sorry to miss out on Niagara, but I'll raise a bahama mama to you all!  

lassie11

Luah - enjoy the Bahamas - what a great way to celebrate end of active treatment! I have been looking on the travel sites for places to stay at Niagara - many show as full that day. There will be some place for us. Somewhere.

Enjoyful

Does anybody know about how many rooms we'd need?

hrf

1 room for me

bluedahlia

If I make it will be a day trip for me.

crazy4carrots

I think this site will help you find accommodations at a B&B:

www.niagarabedandbreakfasts.com/accommodations.html

If you have any questions about the location of a b&b (its proximity to my house and to the downtown shopping area etc.) just pm me.  FYI, I live approx. 3 blocks from Queen St. (the main drag) and two short blocks from the river and Lake Ontario.

If you choose to stay in Niagara Falls, it's just 20 minutes away along the Niagara Parkway.

Linda

Beesie

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it.  That's the weekend of our annual family get together at a cottage near Ottawa, so I'll be heading off in the opposite direction.  Too bad - I've love to meet everybody and I really enjoy NOTL!

BorneoMom

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it either, as that is the day for the annual gathering of my cousins--our 2nd annual gathering, I might add.   So I'm really sorry that, once again, I won't be able to make it to a gathering of sisters.  Hopefully next time....but have a wonderful time!  --Lois

lewing

I'm very, very doubtful for NOTL (hopeful that I can make it work, but mainly doubtful).  But I do have a Canadian vacation week scheduled for July 2-10 that will take me to Toronto, Montreal and Stratford.  I don't want to hijack this reunion thread, but if any of you wonderful Canadian women (or frequent-visiting Americans . . . got that, Enjoyful?) would like to try to get together for coffee or bubble tea or something stronger, please PM me! 

Linda

lassie11

Bubble tea? I'd try to get together just to find out what that is!

crazy4carrots

Lassie, go to Wiki-How and read all about making bubble tea (the bubbles, I guess, are little tapioca beads)! 

Lewing, have you actually drunk it?  Sorry, it's just not my cup of tea - pun intended!  However, if/when you do make it down to NOTL, I promise to have every other kind of tea available

lewing

Oh, man, you don't know what you're missing!  Bubble tea is barely tea - more like a tea-based (or even tea-optional) fruity drink with big fat tapioca pearls (that look a bit like amphibian eyes - now, try to get THAT image out of your head) floating in it.  You drink it through an oversized straw.  Toronto Chinatown was the first place I ever had it, so when I think of Toronto, I think bubble tea. 

I introduced a friend to it, and she literally shrieked when she swallowed her first "bubble."

L

crazy4carrots

Hmmm, two things that determine whether or not I will like something -- taste and texture.  Doesn't matter what it tastes like, if the texture puts me off, forget it!  That's why I cannot stand rice pudding or tapioca pudding (or bits of nuts in cookies and brownies).   Soooooo -- bubble tea is not for me!

I bought some white tea at Teaopia the other day -- and nearly fell over when she told me the price (50 grams for $9.50 -- ouch!).  But, it is delicious.......and I drink it sparingly.

lewing

Even I, bubble tea fan that I am, will admit that the sliminess of the tapioca pearls (or lychee jellies, my personal fave, or the mysteriously named "grass jellies") can be a bit off-putting.  

pip57

Linda, spend the money on that white tea.  It is suppose to be better than  green tea for antioxidants.  Think of it as a medical expense.