Family Trip: Day 3

We logged 5 cities and 197.0 kilometres for this day's journey. Had a late start to the day because the condo was so nice... First stop was Scenic Caves, which is nearby. There was this longest suspension foot bridge in Ontario (lots of qualifiers in that sentence...heh), which felt kind of ordinary, actually, but the view was great. Then a bit of a hike led to a series of caverns, caves, and viewpoints. The highlight is definitely a cave called "fat man's misery," so called because one part of the cave was only 36 centimetres wide! I didn't manage to go through, but my dad and mesister did, and so did quite a few "large" people...so I guess I should have be able to done that... Took off to Wasaga Beach next, and it was beautiful. They had fun with the water, and I had fun taking pictures of them having fun with the water and sand. This was only a short stop (about half an hour) (so many people there...). We took off in the direction of Huntsville, our place to stay for 3 nights. 26-->92-->12-->11 (not as many turns as yesterday, heh). But first, not long after we left Wasaga Beach, mesister wanted to go to the washroom again, and we were essentially in the middle of nowhere... She was desperate, and spotted an arrow that says "Eady Community Hall," and we made an abrupt turn to it. Travelled on the dirt road bumbling around for quite a while, and behold, there was the hall, and it was actually open! That was an interesting detour. Continuing with the journey, we stopped at the next big city called Orillia, where we bought some "interesting" things at Wal-Mart. The rest of the road trip was on the big highway 11 instead of all the country roads, and we arrived at the hotel at about 6:30pm. Not as big as the condo (which was expected), but still quite nice. We went to Kelsey's for dinner, also very nice, and this would mark the first time that I went to Kelsey's...heh, and it was in Huntsville, Ontario...who knew? Another visit to a nearby Wal-Mart, and that ends the day.

Random notes...(is this going to be a regular feature now?)

• Woohoo! Internet access! Too bad it's mostly taken away by mesister so that she can talk to her honey...
• I found out that almost all of the pictures taken with my camera had this grey blob in the middle of it...and I was a bit heart broken about that... I didn't notice it before, and the pictures look great...but now that I know about this imperfection, I cannot take my eyes off of it...some life lesson could be derived from this, eh? Heh...
• I'm glad that I'm in generally a good mood today, makes the trip that much nicer.
• We all liked this semi-spontaneous travel much better than following in a tour group...I guess it's the sense of freedom that is attracting us here, and the fact that we are going through these rural towns instead of the big cities...
• Funny how the view from our room in the hotel is...another hotel!
• I was quite energetic in all the driving, but once we arrived at our hotel, I started to have this headache, and felt a bit numb and dizzy. Must have been the adrenaline thingie? Or maybe it's high blood pressure? Don't know...
• I guess the thing with my family is, when I'm with them physically, it's not too bad, and sometimes get along just fine. But when I don't see them, it feels very annoying... I'm sort of reminded of this saying, "it's not about quality versus quantity, it's quantity building quality..."

I'm grateful to God for...

• being such a beautiful creator of an incredible variety of natural features;
• for putting me in a generally well mood today to enjoy the journey;
• giving me enough energy to drive, protecting us from harm;
• providing a way to the washroom for mesister just in time (heh); and
• giving me just enough strength to carry on and enjoy this trip, and not get tired so quickly.