London, Ontario

On Monday we checked out of your lovely hotel and took a taxi to pick up our rental car. And nice car it was too - this year's silver Ford Mustang GT - a bit small for the three of us and our luggage, but what it lacked in space it most definetly gained in style. Only "setback" was that it was of course automatic, and I'm used to a manual car - but once I got the hang of the fact that my left leg was supposed to take a holiday it got pretty easy.

So we headed out of Toronto - which was no small deal as most of Toronto streets appear to be one way streets, and plotting a course out wasn't trivial - but we managed and headed towards a city called London about two hours' drive from Toronto. Canadian motorways can be pretty scary - I think the most lanes I've ever seen on a motorway has been about four so far, and some of the Canadian ones double that, no problem. They also don't obey the assumed rule of being able to take the inner lane for staying on the motorway - they just veered out so you had to stay in guard all the time. Also getting out of the motorway for service stations turned out to be too difficult - or rather getting back to the motorway: more than once the road that lead to the service station was poorly marked and one way - so getting back was just overly complicated.

However, after some minor adventures we found our way to London. Our hotel was a weird building - an old armory with walls and all, and a glass skycraper built in the middle of it. Service was so friendly, probably the best during the whole trip. We ate, and headed for another queue - this time it was the John Labatt Centre and Monday Night RAW.

It's almost a shame to admit, but RAW was maybe even bigger experience to us than SummerSlam. Audience was a lot smaller (maybe around 5000 people), but they were a lot nicer - and somehow, seeing that setting that we've been watching in telly for years was really awsome. Still, it might have not been the highlight of the trip hadn't it been for some dramatic events taking place in the storyline - mainly seeing the most powerful faction in RAW, Evolution, gang up on Randy Orton. A memorable experience indeed. It was also really funny walking back to the hotel and then opening the tv - only to see the same event being shown there on repeat... our seats were a bit high up on tier, but we managed to spot ourselves couple of times.