DAY 7 - HOMEWARD BOUND GAFFES and little glitches.

On rebrousse chemin - we are on our way home!!  To circumvent Toronto and visit family that LL has in Barrie, we took the Express Toll Route 407 again.  So convenient and stress free.   I highly recommend it. Mind you, I might not when we get the bill by mail. It isn't cheap.  Apparently the 407 when it was built was the only electronic toll highway in the WORLD. It may still be...

I had found us a sweet little basement apartment on Airbnb, in a residential area.  Google Maps brought us right to the door.   There was no side entrance, like in the picture, so I try the back gate.  I can't get it open. No one answers the doorbell.  Beginning to doubt the address, I check my email and realize we are at #346 and NOT #246.  Meanwhile, Linda has just come back from trying to break into the back yard herself, so when I tell her we are at the WRONG  address, her reply? "Let's get the HELL out of here. I didn't come all the way the way to Barrie to friggin' get arrested for trying to break into someone's house."  Of course I was paralyzed, NOT with fear, but with laughter! I needed to go to the washroom so badly, which made me laugh all the harder. I can't move. Thank goodness no one was home. Airbnb is wonderful, but pay attention to the numbers in the address, folks.

We had a short, sweet and special visit with Linda's uncle and his wife in their nursing home. I saw on the wall, on a board, an example of all the locks, devices, straps, ties, etc that are used to keep the residents "secure." I wanted to take a picture, but I didn't.  It was heartbreaking. Linda and I were both in tears when we left. Her uncle is one sharp cookie, and truly delightful.  Mind you, I almost fell off my chair when I heard him say none too nicely, to a nosy resident who was lingering near his door,  "Get the F^*! out of my room!"

Some great Ontario wine, bought from The Wine Store, because we couldn't find an LCBO store to save our lives, and prepared take out food from Sobeys, rounded out our day, along with a few hours of downtime in our sweet enclave, where everything sparkled, for the princely sum of 64$ total.

La vie est belle!!!