Our Trip to Windsor, Ontario

Tyler had a business trip to Ontario this week and Violet and I decided it would be a nice break to tag along. Ava stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Paxton where she could run around and play with her aunt and uncles. Windsor is just across the river from Detroit, so it only took us 40 minutes to get there. The hotel was nice and was just across from a "custom knife show" taking place across the street. See picture below.

Each morning we had another 40 minute drive to drop Tyler off at the airbag manufacturing facility in Tilbury. Tilbury is a very small town with only one B&B that had two rooms. This would have been too weird for Sarah. The drive was especially tiring because Violet wanted to party every two hours at night. The first day we got to Tilbury we needed to get gas, or, petro, as they call it. When we pulled up to the full-service gas station a guy came out and said, "No hydro here." We assumed hydro was gas, so when we asked if they had any across the overpass, he didn't know. So we drove across the bridge. Another gas station attendant came out and said, "No hydro here, No hydro till Sunnydale." We had no idea what he was talking about. Sarah thought maybe the small town pooled their gas in the ground somewhere. As Tyler began the training, he asked about "hydro." Turns out the town calls electricity hydro after the electric plants. The locals had a good laugh.

Other highlights included going to a local restaurant called, "Spooters," driving along the Lake St. Clair Shoreline, and trying to go to an underground railroad museum. The museum was a total bust - but at least Sarah got to see where the underground railroad ended.

The GM HQ and partial skyline of Detroit Sarah and Violet freezing in the cold wind.