Day 54

Change It Up

Jun 29, 2013, 9:05 AM

Today is going to be interesting reading on the blog. Every night Steve rolls his eyes and gives me lip when I ask him to check my blog before I post it. Last night I had enough and I told him, he should write today's blog and I'll roll my eyes. So there we have it, we'll see how he does. 

First thing this morning I tried to call the Soo Locks Ferry people. They do sightseeing cruises and lunch and dinner cruises in the Sault St. Marie area. We definitely want to do a dinner cruise. I waited till about 8:30 AM and the recording said their office is open Monday through Thursday. Can you believe this? I don't know, maybe if we had driven the hour to get there they would have been selling tickets at the dock, but who wants to take a chance. We do want to see Sault St. Marie, but we will do it in one day not go back for a dinner cruise if we couldn't get on a boat today. So I guess on Monday morning I'll call them again. 

Jun 29, 2013, 3:35 PM

The plan was just to take it easy today, stay around the campground. Steve did want to check out Drummond Island. He'd seen something about it and there is hiking and you have to take a ferry ride, just in general fun. We thought it was close to the campground. We get in the car and set the GPS and the darn place is about 40 minutes away. Now we aren't sure if that is including the ferry ride or not so i'll have to get back to you on that. We did have a leisurely morning and early afternoon. Steve slept in, I was crocheting, Steve made hot dogs on the grill for lunch and I watched a movie. We figured we didn't need to be in a rush since it is light till after 10 PM around here. 

Jun 29, 2013, 6:33 PM

We took the ferry over to Drummond Island. There were two parks listed on the GPS, we tried the first park and it was actually a campground. There was a sign for a hiking trail but we didn't see the trail. We drove a little bit then on the way out we saw the trail. What the heck, we gave it a try. Once again we were the only ones that have been past about a quarter mile into this trail in quite some time. The trail was grown over in a lot of locations. It made me a little nervous but I was with a direct descendant of Sacagawea, so we were good. This trail had one marker at the beginning of the trail and on our way back we saw what might have been another marker laying at the base of a tree. This trail was nice, once again no wildlife except the animal I was with. We walked until we started to get into areas with standing water. The mosquitos got really bad there so we decided to go back. We did hear a woodpecker, he must have been huge cause the sound he was making was really big. We tried to see him, but there was just too much growth. Then we were driving to the other park and we past a sign for pasties (pronounced pass-ties), don't anybody go thinking anything dirty now. Carole Corcoran said we had to give them a try. So we tracked down the place that had the sign up and we went in. We were both a little hungry and a hold me over would have been perfect. We went in and asked for the pasties and the guy asked us how many, we told him two, he brought us two boxes and these babies were cold. We thought we were getting a nosh, a snack, something to munch on, he told us we had to go home and heat it up. Thanks a lot buddy!!! So we went across the street to Chuck's Place and had dinner. 

Jun 29, 2013, 10:39 PM

Well when we got home we just relaxed and watched the movie Blind Side. That is a really great movie, even more so because it's true. So now it's past my bed time mind I still have photos to go through from today. Oh and you will note, there is no blog from Steve. He's all bluster!!!!  Note from Steve:  no blog from me since it just took me an hour to correct this blog for her.