Afternoon of 9 June arrive at St Catharines.

My hotel in St Catharines, the Days Inn.

After settling in at the hotel, I headed off to the Fairview Mall. I knew it was handy, as I had seen it on Google Earth while checking out the area before leaving home.  On the way, I had trouble crossing a main thoroughfare.  At the newly installed traffic lights, I pushed the button facing the way I wanted to cross.  However, after many light sequences and no pedestrian light I studied the button layouts and read the instructions.  Above each button was arrow pointing in the crossing direction.  Meaning the button I pressed that faced my crossing really controlled the crossing a right angles to it.  Logical but not intuitive I thought.   So after this delay I was off again only to be waylaid by an Office Supply Depot going out of business and selling everything at 80% discount—this I could not resist.  I didn't find anything so off again, but could not find the Mall so popped into a large Building Depot complex— Interesting. As I could not find any Mall I retraced my steps.

Back at the hotel I Googled the Fairview Mall.  Found were it was and that it was open to 9 pm.  So off again, across the intersection using the correct button, past the Office Depot and all those bargains, and about 200M and around the corner from the Building Depot was the back entrance to the Mall.  Now I could have a look for a small-wheeled suitcase to replace my carryon bag.  Found a couple of possible bags, but thought I leave purchase until later.

Back at the Hotel, I went down to Perkins for dinner.  Perkins is the restaurant and bakery attached to the hotel and as their advertising proclaims "BREAKFAST is just the start".  At Perkins, they have never heard of such a thing as small or average helpings—every meal is BIG, fried or from the bakery.

Perkins restaurant and bakery attached to hotel

So ends day 2.