Ontario

This had to be one of the worst train runs ever, not because it was long, thankfully it was very short. If we had monkeys on the show I would have been convinced they had made there was up to the engine and had over powered the driver. And once we actually got in we took forever to spot as work was going to be done on some of the cars this week and we all had to be split. It was very odd not having a vestibule and seeing light from outside shining in through a small gap in the door. It was also louder whenever a train pasted.



Ontario was one of those places that I wasn't expecting too much from but had a pleasant surprise. We found a couple of parks, one small one with a strange roller slide which we found out use to be quite common but have slowly been replaced as they are considered dangerous. Shame really as I thought they were quite fun and a bit of an odd feeling. Felt like I was on a conveyor belt at the supermarket. The other park was not small at all. Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park is a 150-acres. It had an outdoor swimming pool, a really good play park and a water play area as well as boating and fishing lakes.



Right next to the arena was a Target which was useful and a little walk past that was The Ontario Mills Mall, which was a decent mall with all the usual shops you find plus a few more. Tweedy was happy there was a decent music shop and Willow was happy there was a Build A Bear so she could get a stamp for her pawsports. It also had 2 cinemas and we made the most of this buy going to see Ice Age 3 and G Force. Ice Age was up to Ice Age standard, I really enjoyed it, but I was surprised that I enjoyed G Force as I really wasn't expecting to.

We saw quite a few hummingbirds here, they are so cute and tiny, in fact we also saw bugs bigger than the hummingbirds. Though the animal that I liked the most was a squirrel running across a hot tarmacked parking lot. He looked like he was dancing on hot coals poor thing, though I have to admit I laughed quite a bit at the hot footed squirrel.

We did quite a bit of walking this week though walking over here is still a nightmare with paths leading nowhere.