London, Brantford

Good day everyone! Jon and I spent 30 minutes trying to find a place to get an oil place. The street that we were on had lots of auto shops but they were all busy. So we drove 2 miles down from our accommodation to find a Jiffy Lube. We were in and out by 20 minutes. We were quite happy with that. We then drove to Tim Horton’s to get 2-12 grain bagels with herb and garlic cheese cream. It was tasty. I haven’t had Tim Horton’s in a while but we did see some in Detroit.

Then we drove to downtown London to see the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. This place honours the people who have made significant contribution to medicine. There was Banting and Best who isolated Insulin. There was also Michael Smith from UBC who created a methodology to isolate and mutate specific genes, also known as “site directed mutagenesis”. Jon would like me to point out that there was a Chinese guy (Dr. Tak Wah Mak) who uncovered the structure of the T cell receptor (T cells are part of your immune system). Jon was pretty grossed out because there were images of the brain cut in half.

After that we drove down to Ivey Park to take pictures of a “waterfall” but it was more like “several big hoses” as Jon describes. We then drove to Canadian Tire to purchase coolant. Jon was finally able to use his stack of Canadian tire money. The Canadian Tire we went to had a gas bar. Jon wished that there was a gas bar in Vancouver so he can get Canadian tire money after filling up. I asked him if he would really fill up his car with CT gas and he said “probably not, I would fill up my mom’s car”. Ha ha.
We then drove to Brantford where we went to Wayne Gretsky Sport Center to see memorabilia from him and other athletes. We then drove to a supermarket to buy apples, bananas and cheese sticks. The cheese sticks were very difficult to eat. Jon said that they were “rubbery” and “full of undeliciousness”.

Afterwards, we drove to Bell Homestead national Historic Site where Alexander Graham Bell conceived the idea of the telephone in 1874. There was also another house called Henderson House where the first Canadian telephone business office was. They had 2 old fashion telephones for us to try. One of them, you had to crank the knob to ring the other phone. It was interesting.

We’ll be staying in Niagara Falls tonight and visiting it tomorrow. Jon spent about 30 minutes in the rain using his bug remover cloth which he bought at Walmart to clean the car. He was soaking by the end of it and smelt funny. Ha ha. I guess I can’t complain as I didn’t help him but I did make dinner (while watching Toddlers and Tiara).

Jon is now swinging his damp shirt at me in a violent circular motion. ARRRRGH! We’ll sleep early tonight for a long day at the falls. Good night everyone!