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Ashley's birthday breakfast 

Day 35 & 36: Hotel and Ashley's birthday!
Because Ashley's birthday was August 10th (the day after this day), her parents promised us a hotel stay as a nice gift so that was the main motivator for the day. Nothing was particularly exciting during the day, just humid and flat. The original plan was to stay at a hotel in Ingersoll. We did our research to see which hotels in the area provided buffet style continental breakfasts, because priorities, and let Ashley's parents know which one we wanted. We got to Ingersoll pretty soon and did some grocery shopping so we could chill in the hotel later. Unfortunately for us, the hotel was sold out for a wedding and we were out of luck. But no need to panic, there was another hotel 10ish miles away that was just as good. We hauled ass and were greeted with an included dinner treat from Mama and Papa Mit's. It was amazing. With our bellies full and our room filled with air cooled from the AC, we slept like rocks for a full 8+ hours.

Luckily for us, the hotel was very full with tour buses and they pulled out the big guns for the buffet, It was quite the spread. Check out our photo! We took our time leaving the hotel and headed towards Niagara. We were off to meet up with Brenda Horton, a friend that we met when camping in Nova Scotia a few years prior. After we got to her lovely home and cleaned up a bit, we went out to dinner with live music. The food was great, the music was mediocre but the company was amazing. Brenda drove us around in her convertible to look at the falls from afar and dodge the enormous amount of tourists loitering about.

Ashley's birthday lunch. This is also the spot that 

Kelsey had fire ants crawl into her pants. 

Story: Fire ant story 

We were biking along and looking for a nice spot of land to plop our bodies, preferably in the shade, to eat lunch. We settled on a patch of grass that did not appear to be exactly anyone's land and out of site due to a few trees for cover. When wrapping up lunch my butt started to itch, I didn't think anything of it because this trip has caused my butt to have some very odd and uncomfortable pains. The stinging itch got worse so I put my hand down my short to itch, and pulled out 4 FIRE ANTS. I jumped up like a kernel in a pop corn maker and pulled my shorts down below my butt and started jumping around while brushing them off...oh and there was probably screaming occurring. Ashley helped by looking to see if there were anymore, but other than that she laughed and I don't blame her...looking back on it the situation was quite funny. In the moment my butt burned and itched for the next several hours.