Today the Senior Hike took place on the hottest day of the year. Factoring in the humidex, it felt like 43 degrees. Boy it was a hot one. Charles Chaffey led the hike with 24 participants along mostly suburban streets to L'Amoreaux Park for lunch. Talk about Mad Dogs and Englishman go out in the midday sun. After lunch which included biting flies we followed a trail through various parks to close to our starting point at Agincourt Mall. The distance travelled was just over 12 km. Barry, Mary Moore, Ilo Puhm and I were sick of the continual stops due to the heat so we departed the group and hightailed it to the Congee Queen in the Mall. On reflection I did not enjoy today's hike. It was hot and the numerous stops for stragglers to catch up, plus washroom breaks, frustrated me. Walking along main and side streets was not my "cup of ice of tea"
That said Charles did an admirable job of leading and I respect him for that.
We barrelled into the Congee Queen only to be told in a drawn out manner in broken english that we could stay for drinks but there was a limit of two per customer if food was not being consumed. Charles had cleared this with the restaurant but they had no knowledge of it. Poor Charles doesn't seem to have much luck when it comes to alcohol! We ordered our beer which turned out not to be chilled as we were told it would be. The Manager stated they had a high demand for beer at lunchtime. I thought this was a lame excuse as one re-stocks as it's sold plus, it's a bloody Chinese Restaurant and the Chinese are not noted to be big beer drinkers. Ironically, the Manager did serve hot tea with our warm beers.
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