We have now moved an hour and half further east to a town called Collingwood. Specifically, we are nearby the local ski hill which would be severely made fun of if it was anywhere near our mountains. It's really more akin to a hill than a mountain. This weekend is the entire reason for our trek. These few days are what we travelled across Canada for. My Mother-in-law's family is getting together for the long weekend and there are many of them we haven't seen in forever. Our rental home is a tri-plex (but we're only renting two of the units) with 8 bedrooms in each side. It's massive. We are blessed as a little family to have two bedrooms!!!
Our last rental ended in an interesting way. My Father-in-law found the rental as he knew the people who lived across the street. The neighbours ended up coming over a few times and even lent Ted their motorboat! So yesterday the plan was to take most of the grandkids for a little ride. They ended up stuck in the middle of Lake Huron for a few hours. It was more difficult for me as the Mom to be waiting and worrying, but the boys had a great adventure and Jericho now mentions it to just about every stranger who says hello. They were amazingly rescued by a sailboat named Sea Biscuit. These kind strangers pulled in the broken motorboat.... well maybe not pulled as much as tugged along at a snail's pace. It's really too bad they weren't rescued by someone travelling maybe a tiny bit faster. When my Dad heard this news he asked if we were sure it wasn't a rowboat.
*** This little bit is for my Dad****
My Dad would hate Ontario. Yes, it's beautiful and I'm sure he would find some fun stuff to do. There are some lovely wind turbines and gigantic combines and other bits of machinery he would love to look at. BUT - in the past week I have seen about 10 Tim Hortons and ZERO Starbucks!!! Horrors!!
*** OK - all done : )
Another interesting end to the cousins adventure was the washing machine quitting. Do you know how much laundry is produced with 13 people, 5 of those people being small children who are going to the beach everyday? I'll tell you, it's a lot. Ample. Oodles. Apparently it was too much for the archaic machine in the rental house. It reached the end of it's proverbial rope.
I asked Nate tonight if this is a good length of time for a vacation. He smiled and said that yes, he's had a great time. Tomorrow is his birthday, my husband is turning 34. We don't have plans for the day as of yet, but tonight we took the family to Swiss Chalet to celebrate as we had a few more gift certificates left.
Clementine is doing well too, but I think she's itching to get on the road again. She stalled a few times during the days we didn't travel far. We're still getting looks all the time and little kids waving at us. It's been a blast.
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