Well, our weekend in Niagara on the Lake was lovely except for the weather! We stopped at numerous wineries on the drive through the Niagara Region on the way to our hotel, a "Vintage Inn" called Queen's Landing (photo above)
Niagara on the Lake is a National Historic District and the town has been left with many original buildings and homes dating back to the 1790's. It is also the home of the Shaw Festival which each year features live plays featuring the works of George Bernard Shaw. When we decided to take this mini-trip last week we had plans to play golf, sit on patios and sip wine or beer. Alas, the weather gods (see the weather pixie to your right) were not on our side this weekend. It was freezing cold and rained all day yesterday and although today was relatively sunny it was damn cold. Now, as a "true north strong and free" Canadian I can handle the cold. I can take walking outside in -25 windchill in January but by May long weekend I expect to be sitting on a patio drinking with my summer skirt and sandals on NOT a coat, turtle neck and long pants. I guess in some respects it was a fair trade off that when we checked in to the Queen's Landing Hotel our front desk clerk, Miguel offered to upgrade our standard room to a king size bed with jacuzzi/spa bathroom, fireplace and a view of the beautiful Niagara River. The room was massive and for an extra $25 more for a room that would normally go for $200 more than our standard room I wasn't going to complain too much. Thanks Miguel! The fireplace came in handy on Sunday night.
We did manage to get a golf game in at a par 3-9 hole course called Oak Hall. A nice course with beautiful grounds and a large stone mansion by the second tee (see link). Much to JB's protestations about it being too cold and my counterpointing "look, we are going to play damn it we made plans to play so let's play. Besides, we won't be too cold when we start swinging and walking the course. It will warm up, see the sun is starting to peek out" Suffice to say, it didn't get that much warmer and JB is such a trooper sometimes for going along with my whacky ideas. He even ended up playing a better game than me. We finished up our game and headed back to Niagara on the Lake to get a pint and some lunch before driving back to Toronto.
Back to work tomorrow and hopefully some warmer weather is coming! Would post more about the wineries and wines we tried and purchased but I am in a post vino, rich food and fresh air fatigue zone. The ol' noggin is not performing optimally at the moment but will say that Peninsula Ridge ,in the photo below, was one of my favorite wineries on our drive through wine country this past weekend.
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