Andy Does The Big Apple

The clean version!

SUNDAY: Up at 8am to go and drop off Dawn in the west, then go back to where we came from and make our way further east to get to The Big Apple. No, it's not New York! The Big Apple is in Coborne, Oshawa. It is a wholesaler pie factory that make pies (mainly apple pie) just an hour east of Oshawa. I thought we were going to go directly from Toronto and was mightily pissed when I was made to wake up early, then drop off Dawn downtown, only to go back to the house to get something. I wish I could have slept and they could have just picked me up. But I snapped out of it when I got some sleep in the car and when we got there. We were greeted by a huge red apple on the side of the road - you cannot miss this thing! We got in and you have the cafe and the wholesale pie factory at the entrance where you can see them making the pies from scratch. Outside you have a mini golf course, a go-kart track (for little kids, mind you) and a mini farm in the "Garden of Eden". That garden is a 10 minute track that takes you to geese, some tractors and a sewer. No wonder Adam and Eve were happy to have been kicked out of there! It's catered for kids and tourists, but it's not so touristy that it's tacky. It's a lot of fun. I went into the cafe and there were big pieces of apple pie available to buy and eat. And it was a HUGE slice. I hadn't eaten breakfast, so I ate it with no complaints (and no bitching about portion sizes of food, not today anyway!) Inside there were lots of photos of other Big monuments found around the world - and most of them were from Australia. There's the Big Banana, The Big Cow and surprisingly one in Victoria - The Big Rolling Pin! I keep learning about stuff about Australia this weekend. Yesterday I learned that the founder of the Ontario Art Gallery was an Aussie. And when I was learning about the history of the gallery, they had their first painting that they commissioned to have presented at the gallery. I looked at it without reading the blurb and said, "This is very Australian". It was a landscape painting with 3 kids at a beach circa 1890's. To me, it looked like the beach towns that are (And I can't finish the blog now, I've got to go and make dinner. Damn, I keep doing this, but I will be back)

OK, it's been over 24 hours, but I am back! So I was describing a painting that I believed was stereotypically Australian. I read the blurb and wouldn't you know it, it was made in Melbourne! You gotta trust those instincts! Got back home and it was all very low-key. I was still incredibly sore from being on my feet all day on Saturday and declared that the coming week was going to be my lazy week! Well it's true, ever since I've arrived it's 'go go go', which has been incredibly brilliant. But it took its toll and I'm going to take it easy.

Next post: MY LAZY WEEK!