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World Famous Windsor Pizza GTG - Sept. 28 2013

DouglasOak

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World Famous Windsor Pizza!!!!
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Now that I have your attention... here are the details.

Meet up on Saturday Sept. 28, 2013 @ 11 am.
McDonalds parking lot 883 Huron Church Rd, Windsor, ON

Turn right as soon as you get off the Ambassador Bridge and go thru Canada Customs.

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[size=16pt]We will Caravan along the shores of Lake Erie
(also known as the Wine Route for all the wineries along the way) to the Southernmost Point in Canada... Point Pelee National Park, where we can enjoy a light lunch with breathtaking views, clean beaches, marshland boardwalks, canoe rides, and some of the most rare and diverse birds, plants, and wildlife in North America.[/size]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Pelee_National_Park
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/on/pelee/visit.aspx


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After our fun filled day we will return to Windsor for some of our famous pizza.
http://www.armandospizza.com/content.php?category=restaurant&page=ourMenuSouthWindsor#pizzas

After dinner we will have a chance for some more photo ops
with the Detroit skyline for a backdrop!!!


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Did I mention Windsor has a world class Casino, and plenty of Strip Clubs Nightlife to keep you entertained into the wee hours!!!


Attending List
BigCMich & Kimmer
DouglasOak & DirtyGirlAva
Didit & Lu
Shels Land & Beave & Trouble
Underwood & Lil Bit
Desirehrdwd & Chels
GoldBowTie & Toots
Intimadatoruag + 3
bkennedy

 
For those of you that like beaches and the Great Lakes...

Windsor-Essex County is surrounded on three sides by water. It amounts to 100 miles of shoreline.

(just in case you like collecting sand from all of the great lakes... you know who you are!!!)

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Hmmmm....

  --OldVMer
 
That will give me a chance to use my new Enhanced Drivers License! 
Count us in!
 
Fun Fact: Point Pelee, Ontario is south of the Northernmost point of California.
 
Flint4x4 said:
Fun Fact: Point Pelee, Ontario is south of the Northernmost point of California.

Point Pelee National Park is the most southern land mass in Canada , sharing the same latitude as Rome and Barcelona .  
This provides the area with a Carolinian climate which makes for some very interesting foliage and animal species


http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g154994-d282357-Reviews-Point_Pelee_National_Park-Leamington_Ontario.html
 
How did we get so far down on the list, lol, who's idea was this anyway!    hehehe


Didit
 
I have not been across the border for the Windsor Ballet in years. So you guys can do the casios I'll do the  ballet until my singles run out.  :laugh:
 
MS03 2500 said:
I have not been across the border for the Windsor Ballet in years. So you guys can do the casios I'll do the  ballet until my singles run out.  :laugh:

These are our "singles"

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Our smallest paper bill is a $5...
you might not be "makin' it rain" for very long!!

 
desirehrdwd said:
All i can say is there is NO way i should be leaving chicago for " famous pizza "!!! But look forward to seeing all my Famous Peeps!!

I will have to agree but I am always willing to try a new Pizza!!!

Can't wait to see everyone!!!!
 
If you got their money be sure to get it changed back before coming home. I didn't and no where will change it for me. :cry:
 
jomomma said:
If you got their money be sure to get it changed back before coming home. I didn't and no where will change it for me. :cry:

If you don't have too much spend it in the duty free shop at the bridge  :D
 
Here is some more Point Pelee Trivia

Point Pelee National Park


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Monarch preparing to cross Lake Erie at Point Pelee National Park (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Point Pelee National Park is located, not surprisingly, at the tip of Point Pelee, in Ontario; it?s a long peninsula that juts quite abruptly into Lake Erie, near Leamington, Ontario, at the southernmost tip of Canada?s mainland.

The region is steeped in hundreds of years of history. From the creation of the automobile in early 1900s, the War of 1812, World Wars ? and the freedom revolution that eventually abolished slavery in Canada.  As a matter of fact, if in the area, you can visit the Underground Railway.

The park?s climate is warmer than most of the rest of Canada, and so it is home to many species typical of southern areas.  It has a lush, almost jungle-like forest.

The park boasts an abundance of reptiles and amphibians and several species that are rare in the rest of Canada. Examples are the fox snake, the spotted turtle and Canada?s only lizard, the five-lined skink.

The park is also renowned as Canada?s finest bird watching spot. Over 360 species have been sighted, of which hundreds stay to breed there. A visitor would also see many Monarch butterflies that abounds while on their southward migrations.

French explorers named it Pointe Pelee, meaning ?bald point,? because of its lack of vegetation.

In 1918, duck hunters and naturalists lobbied and are the reason it?s become a National Park. Still, the park is precariously vulnerable; it is small, and it?s in a region that is 97% surrounding land that has been severely manipulated for housing and agriculture. It is commonly believed that over ten species of amphibians and reptiles, including flying squirrels, have disappeared from the area in the 20th Century.
 
And for all you Bird Lovers...

Point Pelee National Park of Canada
Monthly Summaries of Autumn Migrants
September

Many species of southbound migrant land birds attain peak numbers during this month. Most species that are common in August remain numerous through September.

Arrivals expected in early September include:

Sharp-shinned Hawk
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Palm Warbler

Arrivals expected by mid-September include:

Turkey Vulture
Hermit Thrush
Cooper's Hawk
Solitary Vireo
Parasitic Jaeger (scarce)
Dark-eyed Junco
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
White-throated Sparrow
Winter Wren
Lincoln's Sparrow

Arrivals expected by late September include:

Peregrine Falcon (uncommon)
American Pipit
Dunlin
Orange-crowned Warbler
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Rusty Blackbird

Buff-breasted sandpipers are often numerous in the Onion Fields by early September. With the passage of any cold front between approximately September 12 to 18, a massive movement of broad-winged hawks can be expected.. This is also the time when large numbers of blue jays first arrive. By mid-September, common terns are abundant in off-shore waters. However, the number of terns has declined severely in recent years.

 
We should be at the Point during the peak of Monarch Butterfly Migration.

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Point Pelee is known for attracting over 380 species of birds including many songbirds. The real show is when monarchs gather here between August and October, because it?s the shortest crossing point over Lake Erie during their 3000 km journey to their winter home in the mountains of central Mexico. Arrive on the right day and you may see them by the thousands. There?s even a butterfly hotline you can call to see if it?s a good time for viewing them : (519) 322-2371, or watch updates on Twitter: @pointpeleenp

On a major migration route - 10,000 monarch butterflies can land on Point Pelee in a single day!
 
French explorers named it Pointe Pelee, meaning ?bald point,? because of its lack of vegetation. The National Park is precariously vulnerable; it is small, and it?s in a region that is 97% surrounding land that has been severely manipulated for housing and agriculture.

It's a huge sand bar, sand bars move. Pointe Pelee is a recent geological feature, the Great Lakes once extended much further inland. It's impossible to know for sure with dredging for shipping lanes what each minor manipulation of our shores do


The Great Lakes contain 95% of the freshwater of North America -- if these waters were evenly distributed over the entire continent's land area they would reach a depth of 1.5 meters or 5 feet
 
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