This weekend we went to Kingston, about 2 and a half hours east of Toronto, to see Mike's cousin Kate and her husband Ryan who moved here last summer.

The weather was cold but not too bad, however most of the tourist attractions had closed down for the winter season, or were only open for limited hours.


On Saturday we had pizza for lunch at Wooden Heads

 Tourist information centre with a red phone box




City Hall


The ice rink behind City Hall


Self - serve frozen yogurt

A Hatleys outlet shop, unfortunately no pyjama sets in my size but Mike got a couple of t-shirts


Chocolate cafe for hot chocolate and a slice of chocolate cake to warm up :)



The fence of Kate and Ryans garden


Me staying on the land...


Gourent toasted cheese sandwiches for lunch!!



 We drove to Gananoque. This is the town hall

The waterfront where the water has largely turned to ice



An old style steam train

We went to Canoe for dinner for our 6 month wedding anniversary, using the gift card we received as our wedding gift from Zeus, Ben, Jon and Sarah.

The restaurant was on the 54th floor, and we had a view of the CN Tower.


Complimentary bread with roasted red pepper and chick pea spread


and an egg cup sized bowl of soup.


and for dessert - sticky toffee date pudding, with passion fruit ice cream for me



and then a cup of herbal tea to finish.

On Friday we caught the Megabus to Niagara. A month or so ago Megabus was running a promotion where you could 'buy' bus tickets for free - so off we went to The Falls for the night.

We got there around 9:30pm on Friday and caught a taxi to the Embassy Suites hotel, which we had bought on Groupon. We were upgraded to the Junior Presidential suite(!) as they had already allocated all the King sized rooms with views of The Falls (which is what we had booked), and received a $40 coupon for TGI Fridays and $50 to spend at the arcades. With breakfast included (and complimentary drink at the managers reception if we had been there in time) it was a pretty good deal for $125.

Our bus back to Toronto wasn't until 10:15pm so we decided to go to the outlet shops but managed to get there just as they were closing, so we went for a drink before dinner at TGI's. We got 2 starters and shared a main. And we paid $6!

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We walked in Central Park while we waited for a table to become available at Candle 79 for lunch




Candle 79 is a vegan restaurant - I had a buritto and Mike a stuffed avocado, and then we both had a vegan chocolate brownie for dessert - the food was really good :)



We called by The Pony Bar again, this time on the Upper East Side, and then headed to the bus station for the bus back to Toronto.