Guelph, Ontario

We rode 500 miles today and made it to Guelph (pronounced Gwelph).  Long day, rewarding ride up through Buffalo, NY and Niagra Falls.  Rode into a cool university atmosphere downtown and found out the hotels were 5-10 minutes away.  Hot, tired and hungry describes us after we rode 8 and a 1/2 hours since lunch with only a few stretching breaks.  We landed at the Comfort Inn, but they were full.  They recommended the Holiday Inn  Express, but they had only one room.  The really great manager tried to rearrange some things but-- no dice.  He did call over to another of his properties and book us there.  So our friends took the first room at the HIE, and we loaded up and went to the Hampton Inn.   Awesome King suite.  At 10 p.m. we didn't care what  we ate, we thought about just drinking all the creamers in the lobby.  But the desk clerk suggested a restaurant within walking distance named Turtle Jack's so the coffee creamer was safe.   Jo had a traditional Canadian dish for dinner called pountain--French fries covered with cheese curds and brown gravy; I had a steak and salad.   Time to catch some zzz's--heading back out at 8:00 a.m.