Back To The Border

On Saturday, I went back to the border to Buffalo to take Serena to the airport. I woke up around 5 am, and stayed in bed for almost an hour and couldn't get back to sleep. Since I was wide awake, I thought I'd make a playlist for the trip. You'd be surprised how time flys when you're making a playlist for the iPod. Cause it was now 7 and I still hadn't showered yet even though I told Gord & Serena that I would be over there at 730, so I was about a half hour late, and they took about 20 minutes to finalize everything before they left. Stopped to get a coffee, counter girl was really slow, so another wasted 10 minutes. Serena's getting stressed and worried now about missing her 11 am flight. Driving was pretty smooth. No real issues until after we crossed the border. I told Gord to navigate using the printed Google map, I remembered not spending a lot of time on the I90, but Gord looked at the map and claimed he remembered the route, until I said aren't we suppose to get off real quick, turns out I overshot the exit, and had to drive back, so another wasted 20 minutes trying to get back onto the right road. Okay everything is fine now, back on the road, just under an hour to go. Wrong. The next highway we're suppose to go on is closed. WTF. So we have to take Gennesee the street the highway is on. Max speed 25mph or we know it as 50 KM/H and we caught every red light.
Finally made it to the airport 20 minutes to spare. I bolted to the washroom, and heard a boarding announcement for BOS airport, we just got in and they're alreay boarding. Serena go warned that her luggage may not make the flight.

So she's off, Gord and I deciede to go to the Niagara Falls Outlet stores. Walked around, nothing special, it's 1 pm now, let's go. I guess the border guard didn't believe our story of dropping a friend off at the airport, cause he checked my car out. Yup that's right nothing in the trunk. Off we go.
Back to the side where the road is smooth. Gord has the idea that he wants to try the Crunch chicken from Planet Hollywood. We go park the car at the Fallsview Casino since I have free parking there and walk over to the tourist traps of Niagara Falls, and get a table at PlanHol, and discover the Crunch Chicken is only available as an appetizer. So we both order the greasiest plate called the Terminator. Crunch chicken, wings, onion rings and natchos. What I learned is I'll never go to a theme restaurant again cause they suck, and it's cool cause now I'm officially a foodie snob.
We hit the arcades afterwards and play a few games of DDR, and head back to home. Got off on the wrong exit, and made a huge detour in Hamilton/Burlington and got back around 8. We learned that Serena is Okay from her flight back home, but her luggage wasn't so lucky. It was on the way on the next flight, but that they would take lock it up for her, until she comes back to pick it up.
Overall it was a fun little roadtrip with problems that make it exciting.