I'm older than I used to be

It was my birthday yesterday, and for the first time in my life, I was spending it without anyone I really care about being there....It made it seem kind of less special.....

Obviously being here means that I was in charge of deciding what I wanted to do, which isn't always the case.....

During the day I took myself off to Niagara Falls.



Two hour coach ride, 30 minute walk at both ends to get to the coach stations, plus a lot of walking around the falls meant that I felt a bit tired towards the end. I went on the Maid of the Mist boat tour, which was cool, and there were plenty of rainbows to be seen in the falls themselves....I did try to go on the cave walk behind the waterfalls, but for some reason, at 3 o'clock, the next trip was at 6, which was useless, so I headed back to the coach station (30 minute walk) thinking I could get the 4:30 coach, only to find out my ticket was for Canadian Greyhound and not US Greyhound, which meant another hour wait, great, although it meant I got to use my new iPod more.....

In the evening, three of us had a lovely steak at Tom Jones Steak House, which kinda blew our daily allowance budget (well, it was triple the daily allowance budget), so I guess I'll have to cut down a bit for a few days.....

And then, I though we were going to go to Fez Batik, but it seems that Albert (who was one of the guys I was out with) spoke to my best friend at home who convinced him we shouldn't go there as I am married and maybe I shouldn't be going to places where I might be tempted by girls (you know, as I'm here on my own), don't know what she thought I was going to do.....Anyway, I'm sure I'll just end up going next week instead.....

Instead, we went to the famous (outside of Toronto I don't know) Horseshoe Tavern to see a couple of bands play, Wank Punter and the Mudmen. The first lot were an eclectic bunch, a lead singer with an afro, a japanese guy with a bandana, some kind of ninja type in a mask, a cowboy, the keyboard player was wearing stupid glasses and, oh yeah, two girls cavorting around playing dominatrix games and generally just fondling each other whilst waering their underwear.....

The second lot were your average rock band, except they also had two bagpipe players flanking the lead singer, which was great, as I'd never seen a bagpipe played live before......



long day though, I forgot to mention that we were up playing pool til 2 the night before, which meant in reality I only got three hours sleep, oh well, better make the most of it whilst I am still in my twenties