Adventure in Southern Hickville Ontario + Holy Crap it's Hot!

I went to a suburb of St. Catharines, Ontario on Saturday to celebrate my friend, A's, birthday. Last year, she moved from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the town whose motto is officially "Where Ships Climb Mountains". Unofficially, the motto should be "Thorold - a town so boring even you can't find ways to spend money here"

We spent the afternoon swimming and eating and playing endless rounds of Catchphrase until about 10 when, it being July 7, 2007 (07-07-07), we decided to high-tail it over to the Niagara casino.

About 20 minutes into our journey my friend S stopped her car at a red light while waiting to turn onto the QEW. Twenty seconds after that we heard a giant squeal and were plowed into by some idiot who was a) clearly speeding and b) clearly idiotic since he admitted to having his head down to look for something on the floor of the car.

Two hours after the crash - in which no one was hurt - the St. Catharines police finally showed up.

We stayed the night at A's condo but were seriously cranky the whole remaining time of our trip.

In other news, it is now officially monstrously hot and humid. Stuffy, as my mother calls it. That lovely mix of horrible heat combined with air like that which you would find in a bathroom right after taking a hot shower.

OA went running this morning by herself. I am going to attempt to go this evening when the hourly forecast is showing a temp of at least 27 degrees celcius and humidity levels in the low 50% range.

Ew.