Part Three: Towers & Open Houses

We had the opportunity to get a great panorama of Canadian buildings and natural beauties owing to some towers in both state.

The first one was at Niagara Falls that I mentioned earlier. The elevators usually climbed very fast up to the top and I had a little sense of fear because of the see-through glass doors. But there was a more fearful thing that I did not dare to approach: the glass floor! As you can see in the picture I was strongly hanging on to Chris. The next tower was CN Tower in Toronto. We couldn’t reach the highest point of it because of the bad weather. It’s said to swing 10 meters right and left when it winds. The third one was the Calgary Tower. We saw the downtown of Calgary at sunset. We were above the highest buildings! It was nice to see the rays of the setting sun reflecting in the hundreds of windows. It was almost as nice as the mountains were mirrored in the lakes in Banff. The restaurant of Calgary Tower was spining round and round. It makes a full circle during an hour.

Open house means houses for sale and anyone can take an inside view any of them. It was a great experience. We visited some open house at both places. It was incredible for me that people can ramble up and down in somebody’s house and nobody is watching on him. There was only an agent in each house who inquired about nothing and put no questions to us about purpose of buying a house. So we were just marvelling and lost in wonder. Mainly in Calgary where we inspected houses (villas) over 1 000 000 CAD. They were huge and there was ample room for more generation.

Part Two: Family, Friends & Pets

We were very lucky as regard the weather. When we had an outdoor engagement, the sun shone brightly, sometimes it was too hot. We canoed the Grand River, we had a lot of fun. It was a four-hour tour rowing down the river. We saw numerous groups of wild gooses with their little ones, special kinds of smaller and bigger birds, a deer springing out the bush. It was 4 canoes each with 2 persons and sometimes some of us got bogged because of the shallow water. At the last stage of the tour it began lighten and thunder loudly, dark clouds appeared, it was dreadful. In spite of the fact that we were quite exhausted after a few-hour rowing we turned on full because of smooth passing. We managed to get by it.

We got to know the groom’s lovely family and also the couple’s best friends, their favourite places and activities. Peter got two huge bald elder brothers, Danton & Jeff (whose canoe was in the water in a large measure), both boys have a huge jeep (Chris liked them very much). I really liked Jeff’s snow-white tuxedo at the wedding, he was the master of ceremony. We got to know Rodney from Newfoundland who works at the same company like Viki & Peter. We gathered together twice at his place and ate barbecue, seosoned roasted meat exactly called T-bone (a kind of cutlet). While barbecue is an integral part of every house in Canada, dogs are a full member of each family (we placed Tyson - Vikis's boxer - at a boarding place during the wedding). Rodney is very proud of his mother country and told stories about Newfi where the main job is fishing but nowadays there is no possibility of work. We were twice in a pub where we have to drop down the jacket of the salty peanut to the ground. It was funny and we hardly could do it at first. Looking down the floor we could easily esteem the number of the guests of that day. We were in different kinds of Bed & Breakfast in the mornings, and Tim Horton is also an indispensible part of the Canadians life that we visited each day and ordered a small (for me) and a medium (for Chris) hot chocolate, a double-double (for Viki) and a triple-triple (for Pete) and once a donut collection.

Part One: Assimilation

When we arrived Toronto late in the evening, the temperature was about 40 degree. I thought that our plane got lost, landed on an other continent. It was incredibly hot. Our hosts were waiting for us and we searched the landscape from the car on our way home. At first sight the streets, the houses and its grouping seemed different from ours and similar to my expectations.

The following day we drove to the Niagara Falls. I imagined that it was much more colossal. We hardly could see the mass of the water falling because of the water splashing back. It was still extremely hot and the humidity was very high as well. We made a tour behind the falls. It was very wet and cold, everyone had to wear a raincoat. We saw the waterfall not only from behind but also got a great view from above from a nearby tower. Actually, there are two falls, one belongs to the US, the other to Canada. The Canadian Fall is much bigger and nicer because of its U-shape. It's said to be falling the one fifth of the world's water through the Niagara Falls. I also liked the policemen running by bicycles. Look at the lovely rainbow in the middle of the picture.

Not honeymoon

We spent 2 weeks in Canada a week after the wedding (from 29 May to 10 June). Our first destination was the state of Ontario, Toronto and its surroundings, mainly Kitchener. This is where my exclassmate (from elementary school) lives. She got married on 3 June and I’m proud of being her maid of honor. I liked the ceremony. There was a rehearsal the day before the wedding. Marching in the church was so solemn, the female members of the wedding party had to entry one after the other while the boys were waiting for them at the altar. I had to read to the guests „the word of the Lord” from the Bible, it was a reading from the first letter of John, God is Love. Chris & me were all day long separately because I was in the wedding party and he could not be with me, that's why he was really frightened. The wedding party usually consists of the maid of honor and the best man who are entitled to sign the register of marriages in the church and they’re close to the young couple. And there are 2 bridesmaid on the bride’s side and 2 boys on the groom’s side. The wedding party (these 8 people, including the groom & the bride as well) travelled by a huge white Limo to a German Hunting and Fishing Club where the coctail began at 5:30 PM. There was a main table where the wedding party had to sit together. We decorated the hall the day before the wedding and removed right after the party at around 1 AM.

I became a wife

Sorry for being away from blog for a long time. First thing, I was so busy with the wedding. Strange to say that I became a wife, and I need to get used to thought that Chris is my husband and I’m his wife, we’re a married couple! In spite of the fact that we’ve been together for more than 9 years, it’s a perfectly different feeling. There is somebody to whom I belong. However, we haven’t moved to the House yet, we decided to do this after the Canadian visit, so it’s about time. This will be a completely different, expected new situation because we have never lived together. Then I was busy with the Canadian journey, of which more next time.