Happy New Years everyone! A bit late, yes, but better late than never. Now school is getting busy - exams come in a month, and many final project on the way. But, before all this business started, I managed a few more ice-capades during the last bit of the holidays. Woke up, and made the best darn breakfast you could hope for - eggs a la over-easy, a few strips of my special cheese-filled pork strips, and an improvised hash-brown-like-thing (involving a few fried onions, potatoes, carrots, and a mushroom or two for good measure). Mmm.
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| It tasted much better than it looks |
I needed a good load of carbs for the day, if I was to be out, so I complemented the protein from the eggs, cheese and meat with a few slices of toast. Can't be the smell of toast and fried eggs in the morning. Met up with my pal and we biked out to the lake, finding a bay partly frozen. Knowing it wasn't (too) deep, we ventured out on the ice-floes to see what it was like. Not deep enough to make it over the head, but one could be very uncomfortably wet until they get back home.
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| On the ice. |
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| Chris, steadying himself for the jump |
Then came ice-bowling.
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It's actually more like curling. With the object being...
...just to even knock the other person's rocks. |
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| Sunset/ Stormy |
The Guild Inn is full of interesting sights... it is essentially an abandoned place, and good for some UEing. But I wouldn't enter the actual hotel part (well, what's left) as they supposedly have a silent alarm to alert the police.
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| The abandoned green house. |
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My snow-covered steed. O'Malley
prefers an MTB. |
We next went cycling a bit west to explore the lake front near Rosetta McClain Gardens. My camera's battery died, but I would have
loved to take a picture of the homeless camp down there. Why? Exactly. Why is there a homeless campout here of all places? I wouldn't have expected. Well, it looked like it may have been abandoned, but we didn't want to disturb if it wasn't.
This ride more than confirmed the unsuitability of the waterfront trail. Kingston road took 15 minutes on the
uphill return, but the waterfront trail path took
45 minutes on the
downhill to get to Rosetta McClain gardens. However, I was almost sideswiped by a truck on K-town Rd.... frightening, when you have to deal with ice already.
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