Sam Roberts Day 3, Fort Erie, ON

And the day starts with a drive to Fort Erie. We start off right on schedule figuring we'll have time for soundchecks, early check in at the hotel, relax a bit, etc… That all went to hell pretty fast. It started with a suggestion of a sit down breakfast, which then turned into a sit down breakfast in Niagara-on-the-Lake. And a round of mini-putt. Schedules be damned!

 

The mini-putt never did happen, but we had quite the drive around Nagara-on-the-Lake, which included a fantastic run-in with the locals. It really was a run-in. We were waiting for a parking spot to open up, and an older gentleman pulled into the lot and stopped right behind the car backing up. The car kept backing up right into him. It looked pretty funny, but quickly turned ugly. The man jumped out of his car and started screaming at the two older ladies who backed into him. It wasn't pretty. Being the chivalrous man that he is, Sam rolled down his window and kindly asked to the man to stop screaming at the ladies, there was no reason to freak out. This was met with "Shut your mouth! I will poke out your eyes with my keys! Enough from you!" This didn't really fly, and after a few exchanges, things settled down, the man apologized to Sam and the ladies, explained his heart condition, and Sam and iMac helped push his car out of the way. We abandoned the newly liberated parking spot (bad vibes and all) and found a restaurant for breakfast, recommended by our Tour Manager Louisa.

 

So the food was pretty good, but there was an issue with the cappuccino. It wasn't cappuccino at all really; 'twas merely a bad reproduction from a bad machine. And so Niagara-on-the-Fake was born. Other than that everything was fine in the picturesque little tourist trap in wine country.

 

We carried on to the venue, lacking time for mini-putt, and proceeded to set up the rock show. Some technical issues from the night before were resolved and the show was great. The nice thing about all these shows is that they're at Racetrack Slots venues. This entails slot machines. Slot machines take money, and the only thing to do about that is to give it money. Sometimes things work out, sometimes not so much… I only spent $20, but with all the ups and downs, I lost a potential $60, but all is good and fun was had.

 

And so another day wrapped up, with a Pizza Pizza nightcap, and we went straight to the hotel to get some rest for the 6:30am lobby call to drive to Windsor.