Oh Canada!

Yesterday Kelsi and I decided to do something with our day off and go do a Canadian Wine Tour. We drove through Detroit, took the Ambassador Bridge over the river, went down through Windsor, and hit up some wineries in southern Ontario. This map at www.swova.ca and GPS got us through six wineries, bought 12 bottles and four glasses of wine between the two of us, and a lovely day. The first winery (that we skipped once we saw it, it looked really crappy and after the we went through the other five and decided to stop by, was, indeed, crappy) was only an hour and 15 minutes away from Ann Arbor.

No, Canada is not known for its extraordinary wine, but I got some that is really good and pretty affordable. I also found out on the Canadian wine scale, I like a sugar content of 2. The merlot/chardonnay mixes were surprisingly good and icewine, a dessert wine, is way too syrupy.

On the way back to the USA, border control seemed to think we were smuggling marajuana in. They took 10-15 minutes searching my car, asking us all kinds of questions, telling me my car was too messy (that part was true) and saying it smelled like beer and dope. His search didn't result it anything obviously, but it was a bit nerve-wracking, and I'm glad to be back in the US and not in a Canadian jail (like my mom thought I would end up in).

FYI, they have duty-free gas on the border for about $.40 cheaper than the regular gas stations. Also, conversion rates for Canadian money and US Dollars are about even now. What happened to our money being worth double?