Friday December 28, 1990

We left Florida and drove home: Florida - Georgia - S. Carolina - N. Carolina - Virginia - Maryland - Pennsylvania - New York - Ontario.

Thursday December 27, 1990

We spent the entire day at the beach (last chance for a good tan). Paul, Alter and I had a massive playfight - but totally trashed the apartment. We went to Boca Raton for dinner that night.

Wednesday December 26, 1990

We spent the morning at the beach and then headed to the outlet mall. We had dinner at City Limits.

Tuesday December 25, 1990

Christmas Day! It rained most of the day so we just walked down the strip and had a shitty lunch. We stayed down there in the evening and hit a few bars. At one point Yuri and I took off on our own and checked out another bar close to where the rest of the guys were. When we headed back to reconnect with the other guys they were already outside and Gabe went nuts on me. His buddies had to break it up because Gabe was so pissed. I didn't tell him where I was going and he got freaked out by my 'disappearance'.

[Note - At the time I thought Gabe was an ass; but looking back I can appreciate the responsibility he had, and how concerned he got when I went missing. The beating my dad would have given him if I did go missing would be have been worse.]

Monday December 24, 1990

Paul, Gabe, Erez and I went down to the beach. Later on Paul and I hung lounged poolside next to our hotel and I met Joanne. We all went Go-karting and to play arcade games.

Sunday December 23, 1990

We went to the beach and hung around the hotel. In the afternoon we checked out a flea market. In the evening we went to see Russia House.

Saturday December 22, 1990

Simon and Yuri met a group of girls in the condo they are staying at (Claire, Stephanie, etc..). A big group of us went to Hollywood Beach for the day - we played touch football and swam. In the evening we drove into Miami for dinner and went clubbing there.

Friday December 21, 1990

We all went to the beach in the morning and then to the Galleria Mall in the afternoon. In the evening we went to see live Jai-alai and ordered pizza.

Thursday December 20, 1990

We went to the beach and met Jen, Wendy and Pam. That night we went for dinner with them and then all headed to The Candy Store. We all went to the boardwalk and beach later.

Wednesday December 19, 1990

We spent the day at the beach in Fort Lauderdale and then went to look for a place to stay - we got a room at the Gold Coast Beach resort Hotel. In the evening we went to a bunch of places around Hollywood Beach, got whistled at by a car full of babes and then ended up at The Candy Store ... amazing wet t-shirt contest!!

[Note - check out where this video was filmed.]

Tuesday December 18, 1990

We drove all day - from Ontario - Michigan - Ohio - Kentucky - Tennessee - Georgia -  to Florida. We did make a few stops along the way: Denny's in Michigan; Cracker Barrell in Tennessee; Dairy Queen in Georgia and Arby's in Florida. We got in late and just crashed at Simon's granny's place. 

Monday December 17, 1990

I wrote my last 2 exams: History, and Society. Right after my exam I went to Simon's place and all of us gathered there: Gabe, Yuri, Alter, Julia, Erez, and Arbus. When everyone arrived we took off in two cars to Florida. I rode with Gabe, Erez, and Arbus. Mike drove Simon, Yuri and Julia.  

Friday October 19, 1990

I handed in my English B short story. After school Al and I took a Greyhound to London and stayed with Gabe in Saugeen. That night we went to The Bavarian ("The Bav") with Gabe, Simon, Dan and Paul.

[Note - Gabe became friends with Simon through our grandmothers. They live in the same building and our grandmothers were talking and realized their grandsons live in the same building. They ended up looking for each other, meeting and becoming great friends. The weird thing is that I was at Western a year earlier and noticed this guy in the TV room that looked familiar for some reason - still don't know why. When I heard this story, the image of Simon immediately popped into my head and it did end up being him. Weird.]