We were up and ready to go almost before the sun came up - actually it was before the sun shone as it was very cloudy. No rain this morning, though, so the slides on the trailer were dry. (That’s a good thing).
Bob had given us directions: turn right out of the driveway, then turn right at a certain street......Mike says he came in from the other way, so he turned left. ‘Matilda’ and nagigator advised turning right, but the captain of the truck prevailed, so an early start got off to a later start when he had to backtrack about 10 miles.....he hates it when we’re right :)
We decided to cross into Canada at Sarnia, rather than Detroit (which is where ‘Matilda’ wanted to go) and had a nice easy border crossing.
We (mostly me) don’t like the big highways, so much more to see on the 2 lane roads, so when we saw a sign for a 50’s diner we figured we’d treat ourselves (not sure why we deserved it) and eat out for lunch. I should have taken my camera in - what a place! All original 50’s stuff! Plus 2 huge rooms full of ‘antiques’ for sale. What a hoot. They had an all-Canadian hamburger on the menu, so we ordered it to celebrate being back in Canada. Since we were already on a small road, we decided just to stay on it for a while and ignore ‘Matilda’s’ wanting us to go back on the 401. As a result we ended up (for the second time in one day) off course and had to backtrack. So we followed the 401 until it divided into the 403 and then before getting onto the QEW (which neither of us enjoy) we took a bunch of secondary roads which brought us nicely right to the campground we planned to stay in.
We passed through some nice little Ontario towns, surprised a little by a couple that were near enough to Hamilton to have sprouted huge subdivisions completely out of keeping with the character of the town.
In Pelham passed country markets, quilt shops, yarn shops, all within 10 miles of the park we’re in - so guess what’s on my list for tomorrow!
Mike called Martin and Rebecca to let them know we were here, and they are coming over tonight for a quick visit. So nice of them - we were expecting to go over there tomorrow afternoon since they are so busy and we’re actually here a day earlier than we expected (figured if we got here tonight we could see them earlier tomorrow).
After supper we did laundry, and Mike, bless his heart, offered to babysit it so I could update the blog and catch up on email. Laundromats being right up there with grocery stores to me, I am very thankful!
Martin and Rebecca surprised us by coming over this evening - great to see them!
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