Ottawa road trip: day 1

Ange, Lex, Sarah (O'Leary) and I left Spuc shortly before 2pm hoping to beat the TO rush hour traffic. We did :-) I also had the pleasure of a sneak preview into Sarah's novel for NaNoWriMo.

After an uneventful ride through the entire GTA, we made a pit stop at Harvey's near The Big Apple. Having been convinced by both Sarah and Lex that I would be famished before we reached Ottawa, I decided to purchase a small chicken salad to eat in the car later. Interestingly, they never asked me to sign the reciept when I used Visa to pay for my food.

After we'd hit the road again, Lex remarked that he didn't recall having actually paid for his meal. At first I attempted to chalk that up to his swiss-cheese memory but he was quite adamant about not having taken his wallet out. It was only after we dropped Sarah off at her home and I decided to eat my salad that we figured out what had happened. I discovered that my salad had no chicken in it and was increduluous at having paid over $5 for a salad with no meat. Suddenly everything clicked as we realized that they had charged me for both salads!

Drew gave me the tour of their new place since I'd never sen it before. They have organized everything quite well as usual, although the kitchen is slightly more cramped and the water pressure not as amazing as when I lived with them in the summer of 2002. Apparently Shannon is looking to hand off her guinea pig to a new owner so, if anybody is interested in acquiring one, let me know and i will get you in touch with her.

Once Sarah (Pell) showed up, we had sushi for dinner. We were being quite loud so it was good that they had relegated us to the lone booth at the restaurant. After we escaped from there, we bought bubble-tea and headed back to Drew and Shannon's apartment for the night. Ange eventually dropped Lex and Sarah off at Sarah's place and we all retired to bed.