guelph visit

The Toronto-Guelph bus schedule changed yesterday. I found out when I arrived at the Elizabeth Street terminal yesterday morning a full half hour before my bus was supposed to depart, only to find that my bus was cancelled.

"If you run," said the ticket clerk, "You might be able to catch the 8:30 a.m. bus." I ran, and just barely made it. When I got to Guelph, I carefully checked the evening schedule to make sure that there was, indeed, an 8:30 p.m. bus.

Then Frebis arrived. We went to a coffee shop and caught up on each other's lives. Last time I had seen Frebis, I had just sold Inkspot, or was in the final stages of selling Inkspot. As some of you are well aware, quite a bit happened since then. A lot has been going on in Frebis's and Duane's lives as well, including an 8-month trip to Australia, New Zealand, and California.

We checked out a church at the top of the hill with beautiful stained glass windows and then browsed some shops in downtown Guelph, including a running store that had a 50% sale (I bought a pair of shorts and a top) and a great little Japanese-theme shop.





Back at the house, I looked through their trip photos, Nahanni trip scrapbook, and snooped through their impressive garden behind the house. In addition to letting me sample freshly-picked miniature tomatoes and green beans, Duane showed me their crop of corn (two types!), tomatilloes, coriander (I discovered that "cilantro" refers to the leaf stage, and "coriander" refers to the seed stage...didn't know that!), pumpkins, tomatoes, sunflowers, leeks, potatoes, different types of poppies, moonflowers, pear trees, apple trees, prune trees, other plants. Duane sells some of his produce to a restaurant in town.

Dinner was barbecued salmon, corn on the cob, and a wonderful saffron rice salad that Frebis made. We just had time for some homemade Mexican hot chocolate before my evening bus, yum.

Except that when I arrived at the Guelph bus station, it turned out that the posted schedule I had checked in the morning had changed! There was no longer an 8:30 pm bus. Fortunately, there was a bus there whose driver hadn't realized the schedule had changed, either, so he said he'd take me to Toronto anyway; I was his sole passenger (!).

It was a wonderful visit, and we're already making tentative plans to get together again.

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Frebis.
	Duane, out in the garden.
	Nicki (sp?), their dog.