Bence in the States

On Monday we went for shopping. I got a lot of t-shirts, shirts and trousers. My gardrobe is renewed thanks to Flora.
On Tuesday we had a funny night. After work we went home and wanted to wash my clothes, everyhing that had a little or bigger dot, dirt on it Flora put a special stain remover. But! When I tried to put money on my qcard a made a mistake in my password so I was blocked out. Thank you Quinnipiac! It said, try it later or contact your system administrator. When, how long, where, who, how? If you are a smart QU student you can figure it out or wash tomorrow. Because we were not sure about the power of the stain remover we had to rinse it at least. But Flora said, nonono. We are going to wash everything with hands! I was like?!?!?! But she was serious. I dont have to say that I was really mad at QU...It is just ridiculous how much the system is leaking because of problems, mistakes and bugs in many ways and on a top of this. Nobody cares about these problems. I emailed somebody and two days later I got back the answer, then she suppose the problem is solved. Thanks:)
But anyway we drunk a couple of beers and washed everything in 4 hours then crashed to bed.

Bence was the centrifugal

Flora is baking delicious brownie

On Wednesday we visited Mr. Aczel Janos at The Goulash Place in Danbury.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/goulash-place-danbury
I like this place a lot and wanted to show it to Flora. We had actaully too much food and it was enough for the next day lunch as well.

Stuffed cabbage and goulash

Thursday was chilling and preparing for the big trip.

On Friday after work we jumped into the car in New Haven and I drove 7 hours to Tonawanda, next to the border. I had to get mad at the motel, because they overbooked their motel and we had to go to another place where for $10 surcharge we were accommodated. I was 40 minutes on the phone with the manager to arrange a refund. It was a pain.
We had the whole Saturday for the Niagara Falls and the afternoon for Lake Ontario and Toronto.

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On the way to the Falls having a short break and dinner with my attorney

At the motel's parking lot where everything seemed fine until I went in.

On the way to the next hotel sitting in a traffic jam.

In the hotel

On Saturday we had to change oil in my car and in the meantime we were just walking around in a big mall.

It fits:)

Just like hello kitty

WTF?! Anybody wants a hamburger necklace?

Almost ready

Having pizza and salad before the Falls

Huhuu! The first pic at the Falls

Together

Pretty and mine

We had wonderful weather!

The misty boat

Flora

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Hugging the bear

This is Toronto from the shore of Lake Ontario

We were amazed by the view and the spot with three chairs and a sign: "We know that the view is priceless that is why we put these chairs here for you. Enjoy!"

Stone feet - Flora's idea

Very cool!

It was just great. We went out on a random exit just to see if we can go to the shore. And at the first road where private property signs were everywhere we pointed out a narrow path with the above mentioned sign. It was all arranged for us.

This is in Toronto waiting for the ferry to get to the Island Park

This is a huge adventure park

From the island the city

I was fishing for a big big black killer whale:)

Feelin' good

The ferry

The city center with the CN tower

At the CN tower

On the way back crossing the border on the Rainbow bridge

We stopped by at an icecream shop where Flora was challenged again with a huge cone:)

I liked this idea!

At the Robert H. Traman State Park in Ithaka

http://nysparks.com/parks/135

There was a huge flood the day before we arrived and we were not supposed to be here where the photo was taken. It was so cool when nobody was around.

This was really nice

I found a book that writes about the States' best restaurants and there was also in Ithaka.

http://www.glenwoodpines.com/

It has the best fish and chips and the famous pine burger. We ordered both. My fish was really the best fish and chips ever.

Good food!

Two bonuses:

Flora arrives!! On 31st after 36 hours travelling - Wednesday (dinner, walking) - pick-up time is 1:30PM
I've cooked a nice dinner for her, she was not tired at all and just a bit hungry. I was so excited to see and feel her in my hands. The airport pick up was not easy, on wednesday i went to work and around 10:30 i left, hopped into the florist the got this red rose. (It turned to be free because the cashier did not have change so he said, it is my fault, have a great day:) Yes, we had a great day. Anyway, there was no problem with the traffic, just with the signs. I have been told to go to another terminal, because her flight was transferred there. On that other terminal they told me that no-no it was a wrong sign, go back. I lost over 30 minutes and I was afraid of missing her on the way out. And this is exactly what happened. She got me when I was looking after her. There was such a great moment to feel her arms around me.

On Thursday we went for shopping a bit, because I wanted to show her every shop I go to. We checked out the Wallmart, Dollar tree (wonderful shop), Stop&Shop, Marshalls. By the time I got home she reorganized the whole room where we gained a lot of space, so we were able to fit every package and clothing on 70 square feet.

On Friday after work we went to Charles and got the kayak and other gears (tent, kayak rack, ropes, lamp, etc.) for the weekend. Because the original plan was to go to a State Park set the tent and fish and kayak around on the sun. We also went to the Mill Pond next to the campus and put the kayak on for a test ride. We paddled way up on the small river and had a great time.

On Saturday we did a lot of things.

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The weather did not look that great so I had to re-plan the whole weekend. First we went to Niantic to The book barn and then in Niantic we checked out the fish market where we had an incredible seafood platter - haddock, clam with bellies, scallops, shrimp and new england clam chowder soup.
After this we visited East Haddam (Gillette Castle State Park, castle, ice cream, fishing in the small pond)
Around 4PM we put the kayak on the sea at the Bluff Point State Park (kayaking, no swimming because of the jelly fish - we saw a ton of jelly fish)
At 9PM we arrived to the farm where Alley set up the BBQ, I don't have to say that the food was amazing. And then around 11PM we went to the Mohegan Sun Casino. I gambled and bet $5 on the slot machine, I was losing the money where Flora wanted to try and so in like two minutes she made $15.91, so we earned $10.91, she was soo lucky!

On Sunday in Bozrah we went for a boat ride where we fished from the water and swam a lot. In the afternoon James and his girlfriend arrived and we had a nice BBQ again. Then we went to the Salem Valley Ice Cream shop (Bence: red velvet, and basil; Flora: peppermint and strawberry)

Hello Flora! Smiling suspiciously behind the kayak:)

Pimped out car:) and its proud owner. This kayak actually looked great on the car! I did not even want to take it off. It earned respect on the highway too.

At the book barn, reading and picking books. Finally we bought a bunch of them for Erna, my brother, and for us. Great books at a very cheap price.

This was actually a barn and they turned it into a book store. You have the chance to look up 500.000 books in over 10 buildings and at three locations. Wonderful place. http://www.bookbarnniantic.com/

Great woman with a great car

Niantic fish market and harbor. As you can see the weather was not that shiny but it got really nice in the afternoon.

Posing outside

The seafood platter. Flora tried out every possible New England seafood variety during her stay with me. Her favorite is the scallop. Least favorite is the lobster.

On the way to the Gillette Castle we stopped by at the funky, hippy, picker shop. We dug through all the usefulness and ugly stuff until we finally found a couple of treasures.

With the treasures

Full size picture:) with less car but with still a bit of the car

Before the Gillette Castle of course we licked couple scoops of ice cream:) With Flora it is a must fun.

http://www.ctrivervalley.com/4-Connecticut-CT-in-of/Major-attractions-in-CT/gillette_castle_state_park/

The Castle from inside

And from outside

The weather was terrific, remember 4 hours ago it was horrific:)

With Bence fishing is a must fun, so we fished at the Gillette castle pond where there were sings: No fishing. But on our side of the pond the sign was missing (somehow) and that is where we fished legally. Flora caught a lot of fish. We caught over 20+ and around 6+ species. Here is Flora with a catfish.