April 27 to May 1, 2009

Tuesday was our travel day. We drove first to Sicard Holiday Trailers to get some minor work done on the rig. Our appointment was for 1:00 and by 4:00 we were on the road. Of course, that meant driving on the 401 during rush hour! Traffic moved fairly well so it was no worse than in previous years. Since we started travelling so late we decided to just travel to Napanee and stay in a Flying J overnight. We arrived there about 8:00 pm and there were lots of parking spaces for RVs so we were all set. Unfortunately we couldn't get our satellite dish to work properly so no blog :)

We were anxious to get to Ottawa so were on the road by 8:00 am. The weather was good and traffic was light. We stopped for coffee and bagel at a nice shop in an outside mall, across the street fromPlace D'Orleans, next to Hwy. 174. Kettleman's - nice place. We'll have to go there again. They make their bagels right there and they looked so good we bought some. They were :-).

We arrived at Recreationland around noon. Our site was available for us so we were able to park right away. Unfortunately somebody had been in that site earlier and got stuck when leaving and tore up the grassy area around our site pretty good. It looks awful. Not sure if that's going to get fixed any better. Will have to look into it further.

After spending the morning on Thursday cleaning the rig and setting things up on the outside, we went off to visit family. That will be a fulltime occupation for the next little while as we immerse ourselves back into quality family time.

Today is our laundry day so we won't feel like we're so rushed, for a little while anyway. I expect we'll be visiting family again before the day is over. Anyway, I have to pick up our motorcycle gear as I'm anxious to pick up my motorcycle. We've stored it at a Honda dealer in Embrun and they've already safety'd it, done an oil change and put on a new front tire. So, there are no excuses. I think I'll have it out by tomorrow if not by today.