This trip’s had everything…….

We’ve visited one of the iconic wonders of the world at Niagara falls, we’ve travelled on Greyhound buses, we’ve eaten Poutineand Beaver tails and visited the worlds first stadium with a fully retractable roof. It would be fair to say that one of the further highlights was when we discovered that we would doing all of our local travel on that other iconic mode of transportation the North American “School Bus”. That dependable workhorse, trusted by millions……or so we thought. Following our final game against Eastern Ontario we were hurtling home to the hotel with the players in strong voice after their victory, when the bus started to emit a warning alarm. Our bus driver very calmly brought the bus to a halt at the side of the freeway and then shouted “Get off the bus as quick as you can!”. The tour leaders equally calmly got out their 50 page risk assessment booklet and reviewed what to do in this eventuality. Failing to find a section covering these circumstances they agreed that it would be best to follow the drivers suggestion however by the time they looked up all the players had come to that conclusion already and were off the bus!

According to the driver an oil pipe had come loose and sprayed oil across the engine. We therefore needed to wait for a replacement bus.

Could someone call a taxi!.......or maybe 5 taxis!

After all was said and done it did allow us to tick a further icon off the list…….a highway patrolman!

After the post match entertainment it was lucky we weren't driving!

While it ended in a very late night for all after what was a hard game thanks go to the driver of our school bus. On this occasion it turned out that there was nothing that put anyone at risk, however by his actions the whole party were dispatched from the bus safely and with speed and a replacement bus was found with consumate speed given it was 11 o’clock at night.

~ by jraeebrfc on 10/07/2009.