For our 25th anniversary, we decided to retrace the route of our 20th anniversary trip and also explore some more areas of Detroit, the GTA, and Niagara. Our friends in Sterling Heights, Michigan were such amazing hosts for the first two nights that we nicknamed their home “The Beaver Arms.” We spent four nights in Brampton, Ontario, taking the train into downtown Toronto a couple of mornings (we did grocery shopping the first day and enjoyed cooking in the evenings and snacking on Canadian favorites). We also enjoyed a Brampton specialty: butter chicken fries, a tribute to the city’s large Indian community and to Canada’s favorite dish, poutine. (I couldn’t wait to get home and make it myself!) Our final two nights were spent in an Airbnb in Niagara Falls called The Time Warp, and visiting familiar sites as well as new ones (including the world’s best wonton soup for breakfast at a Chinese donut shop) before traveling to Buffalo to have lunch at our favorite restaurant there with our favorite Buffalo resident.
The Soup Diva 