Gina-Gina-Bo-Bina
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Have not told her yet. I think I will tell her after I leave.
Go to Shoppers Drug Mart and visit my friend St. Tropez. She's not a cheap date but certainly the type of quality girl you can take home to meet mom and dad. Definitely marriage material.
Hmmm....I may have to give that a try . I wonder if Steve would be jealous though?
Popeyes is good. I remember my friend growing up had Popeyes every Friday night as a treat
Cheap vacay to Canada.. Hmm...Will have to look into this
Picture this.....summer in Niagara Falls. Riding the Hornblower Cruise to the base of the Canadian Falls. Snacking on Beaver Tails on Clifton Hill. Sliding down a waterslide at Great Wolf Lodge. And having dinner with your friends from the Dis . #makeithappen
I live just south of Seattle, so it's easy for us to take a day trip to Vancouver, or even the suburbs, to go shopping. We used to do it once a year or so in the late 90's early 00's when it was about 75 cents US for every Canadian dollar. It was nice, I got my hockey skates up there, nicer skates for less than I would have paid for a lesser model.
However, I have noticed on my past few trips to Canada when the dollar was basically even, Edmonton in 08 I think, Toronto in 10 and Vancouver last year, that the prices for clothes and things were a higher than they would be here. Sometimes not much and sometimes enough that I couldn't justify the extra cost. So keep that in mind for trips to the north.
I always think of books and magazines as an example because they always have a US and Canadian price. I don't buy either in Canada, especially now with Amazon.
If you can, for sure take advantage of their poor/our great exchange rate. And if you stay long enough to you can your GST back, or at least you used to be able to.
Our base price for clothing is noticeably higher, as a general rule, than similar products in the USA. Definitely something to watch for and factor in. Even if shopping isn't a great deal for our US neighbours, though, tourism certainly is. Its a great time to visit and take in some of our famous Canadian sights!
We were just talking about this at supper. I think this will be the summer we will finally do Niagara Falls. We are always there in the winter, or passing through in the summer, never actually stayed there in the summer and did all that is to offer. With the $$ the way it is. I am thinking this will be the year.
Summer is so entertaining at the Falls (very busy, of course, but there are lots of ridiculously cheesy fun things to do). It would be awesome if your fam could be part of a Dismeet there!!! We should start thinking about dates......
I've never tried a Popeye's but we just might. My son would be in heaven as any kind of friend chicken is his favourite.
I'll be scouring Groupon and signing up for email clubs again for our upcoming trip. That's not so much necessity for the budget as I enjoy a hunt for a deal any day. We will be planning together for that one Gina, just like the good old (and insufferably hot) August trips!
I'd be in for a Niagara dismeet. I sure wouldn't need to travel far .
You guys have a Popeyes in NF, on Lundy's Lane. We try to stop there on every Falls vacation at least once. We find their quality to be almost as good as the locations in the US . Its in a little strip mall near the Flying Saucer.
I am so excited to be planning those final weeks before vacation with you!! Thankfully we shouldn't have any worries about hurricanes that early in the season .
And YAY to be on board for the Dismeet!! I was hoping you would say yes! (though I know its not much a vacation for you, being right in your own back yard!)
And this is why we applied for passports this year (waaayyy back in the day I traveled to Canada and Mexico as a kid/teen and all we needed was US ID).
Am I invited to the Niagra Dismeet? Hubs was just saying recently we've never been to that area of the country...
LOVE Steak n Shake-but have never been there for breakfast-even though have been sorely tempted (ours runs an "all you care to eat pancake" for $5 special).
And on our way through the middle of MO on way to family for Christmas we were looking for a KFC but ended up at Popeyes instead. MUCH better chicken by unanimous decision (and I don't like fast food and thought this was good).
Mini golf looks like fun!
Absolutely you are invited! The more, the merrier! If we get enough people who would want to come, we might even qualify for a nice group discount at one of the local hotels. I should post something over on the Canadian board, too....there might be a few other folks who would like to join in on the fun.
The Orlando Steak & Shake had an all-you-can-eat pancake special as well....$3.99!!! I think that will be my choice for the next visit. Diet be darned.
Funny we used to have several Popeyes around, but now only one I know of is in a part of town I would not go to. They still do commercials on the local tv channels though.
Yep, on Christmas we ended up at McD's, since DH wanted a cheap meal. After meals were ordered, I did not find it much cheaper than a sit down restaurant. We will plan better this year. Kids never complain, as they like all kinds of food, and will never pass over a chance for French fries.
Nice update.
Ah yes, teenagers....don't they have such discriminating tastes?
McDonald's prices here at home are ridiculously overpriced. $9 for a crappy teensy weensy burger, painfully salty fries and a watered down drink . Blech.
Niagara Dismeet eh?????? I could be tempted. We're in Niagara a lot, it's only 45 minutes away from home. Usually end up having to stay over there a couple of weekends a year for DD's competitions.
and just to give all my Canucks a wonderful gooooood morning......the exchange rate right now is 1.4992
Well just so you know, I've already decided that you, in particular, would HAVE to come. You're the life of the party here on this thread, after all .
And in case you were wondering, I'm having a nice little cry over your exchange rate update . Can't you just let me live in my bubble?? I am happy there.
Enjoying all your updates. The 2 water slides you mentioned (along with Roa's Rapids) were definitely our family favorites as well. I sure got a lot of giggles waiting for my kids at the bottom of Breakaway Falls- lots of bathing suit mishaps. We went mini- golfing twice on this past trip: one time at Congo River Golf (and also fed the gators; thanks to your previous trip reports) and also to Disney's Winter Summerland Mini-Golf. Have you all tried this course (it's by Blizzard Beach)? We did the summer course and really enjoyed it. Hardly anyone was there the night we went and we never had to wait for our turn to golf. On a past trip a couple years ago we also tried Disney's Fantasia mini-golf course and we really enjoyed that one as well (we did the family friendly course but they also have a more challenging one as well.)
Ha ha, yes!!! They guys nicknamed it the Ihu Wedgie .
We haven't done any Disney mini golf courses yet, but they look great.....they're just quite a bit pricier when they never offer coupons (which are rampant in the Entertainment Book for the offsite courses) or Groupons. We actually thought about doing the Winter course at Winter Summerland, though, on this past trip......we thought the Christmas theming would have been very fitting for a festive holiday vacation!!