Happy Anniversary

Today (Sat) was our 34th wedding anniversary so Jim planned a special day. We woke up in Niagara-on-the-Lake so we were able to take the dogs on another wonderful walk down by the lake (Lake Ontario/Niagara River mouth). It was a gorgeous morning even tho Environment CN was predicting rain for later.
We left NOTL at 9:15 and turned west for the first time on this trip. We did hit rain before we reached Hamilton. The AAA map led me, the navigator astray, but we didn't stray too far. We arrive in Stratford a little before noon and enjoyed lunch at Bentleys, did our final shopping including a stop at a custom furniture store that had a dining set made out of oak recovered from the bottom of Georgian Bay – gorgeous! (and pricey).
Cyrano de Bergerac started at 2PM in the Festival theatre. We hoped it would be done by 4:30 since we had a dinner reservation in Goderich at 6:00 and then another play at 8PM in Blyth, our anniversary finale. I think Cyrano starts slow, but is a good story once it gets going. We found our it lasted until 5ish and decided to bug out at the 4PM intermission. Glad we did since that gave us the chance to stop at Fay's, an antique and junk shop, in Sebringville for a few minutes, check into our campsite at Falls Reserve Conservation Area, take care of the puppies and then on to Bailey's for dinner.
Bailey's was recommended by our unnamed friend at Music. We were not disappointed. Our meal was wonderful, cooked by a chef that had come from Stratford. We toasted our 34 years and our wish for 34 more with a Jackson-Triggs Gewurztraminer that we had tasted on our wine tour at NOTL. We thought about the Stan Rogers song where he says “... after 23 years you'd think I could find a way to let you know somehow that I want to see your smiling face 45 years from now”. 68 years just like our 34 and 34.
The play in Blyth was Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, a fitting swan song to our trip to Canada. Tomorrow's our last day. We walked back to our campsite we lucked onto in Blyth and called it a day.