July 15, 2007. We just arrived in Thunder Bay. We left Winnipeg this morning. We’re at the Best Western Hotel again, after spending 1 ¼ nights at the Hilton in Winnipeg. They were the only ones with room for us at 4:30 am, when we arrived there! It was great there. Joey especially had always wanted to stay at a Hilton, “because they are world-renowned”, he said. The boy is a bohemian; let’s see if he can keep up with his own lifestyle aspirations when he’s an adult. So I go to wake him up in the morning, I lovingly gaze at his beautiful, innocent, peaceful face, his eyes still closed, and he mumbles sleepily: “Mom, I’m still tired. I need caffeine and sugar.” The drive out to Thunderbay was nice, lots of little and
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