Opening Week at the Stratford Festival (where-in we get all the Elephants on their feet and dancing) having reached it's pinnacle achievement on Saturday Night, I had made plans to spend the next two days retrieving a certain vacuum ensemble cross border and stopping in Sarnia for a pulchritudinous Pete visit long overdue.
Following Opening Week as the summer vacationer season swings into high gear is the weekend that our official day off moves from Sunday to Monday. In order to accomplish this without having actors and crew topple over in a sleep deprived faint, it is the tradition here that we are generously accorded two days off (our second two day break happens over Labour Day weekend although Monday remains the one day off).
It's a 4 hour drive to where I was going and so I had the car pre-packed and hit the road at 8:30 Sunday morn. There was not time to stop at Pete's first and I headed directly for the Bluewater ferry crossing in Sombra over to Marine City MI.
The St Clair River has swans! These were clustered around the Ferry dock and accompanied us across the river for the most part. Looking north up-river there is the Lambton County Coal-fired Electric generating plant that was built decades ago to power the Oil Refineries clustered around Sarnia as far inland as Petrolia and Oil City.
http://www.opg.com/power/fossil/lambton.asp
