running (north) for the border

We finally found Jake in his Sabbath school class after we had already run into Heather and Jessica in the hallway first. We went to the Metro SDA Church in Plymouth. The conference treasurer was the speaker.










Ryan in front of his grandparents' house on Sabbath. Ryan's grandparents and two of their next door neighbors are the only original owners of their houses in the neighborhood they said.

Jake got a new helicopter that we took turns playing with. I happen to have one just like it in the closet in our bedroom!











I don't remember who brought the football, but we had a fun time throwing it around the back yard. Jessica brought her friend Madison with her to lunch, but she's not in the pictures.

Walking on the sidewalk to the park

Heather's crazy static hairdo

Ryan and Heather had fun swinging. You can see who has more skills. That comes with the territory in elementary school.

This must be a newly modified and supposedly safer teeter-totters that Jessica and I were sitting on.

Ryan and Jake get in a little more quality time before we had to walk back to the house, load our stuff, and head for the border. It was nice knowing we'd get to come back in a few days to see them all again.








Gas in Detroit was quite a bit more expensive than in Tennessee, so we were glad to get a reduced rate at the border on duty-free gas that "must be exported into Canada." See the bottom of the pump? We had to put in our license plate number and home zip code to get gas.

Driving over Ambassador Bridge to Windsor, Ontario. This was my first time in Ontario and only the second in Canada at all. Ryan drove on the 401, once we finally found a way to get on.








We drove through (as in between) two huge storms as we got near Toronto. As you can see, the GPS unit worked great in Canada. What was funny is that Ryan was tired of the guy with the Canadian accent giving us directions before we ever got out of the U.S. I think C3PO was our voice for this leg of the trip.

We got to Jo-Anne's condo (with the great view of the city from the 15th floor) around 10:00p. We got to stay up and talk with her for a while and had a nice breakfast in the morning before heading out to our first baseball game!