Saturday – September 2 – Last night an older Airstream came into the park but John was cooking dinner when the couple came by so only talked to them for a couple of minutes. This morning I was just getting out of the shower when he said he had talked to them and they were leaving shortly so he was going down to see their trailer. I put myself into high gear and got dressed, the bed made and the trailer tidied up then also made it down to see their trailer. It is a 1964 and they said it was in really bad shape when they bought it but they have spent the last 4 years restoring it and it is lovely. The outside has been finished to a high gleam - I felt really bad as I figured they would have to wipe John’s drool off it before they could leave - John just ate his heart out seeing the outside!! The inside is really neat and they have done a wonderful job of cleaning it up and redoing the interior.

The weather was okay again today so we drove about 5 miles back towards Ottawa and took a ferry across the river to Quebec. We drove up through the Gatineau Hills and it was a lovely drive. We ended up in a small town called Wakefield and there was an old steam train there, it goes every day from Hull to Wakefield and was stopped there for a bit before returning to Hull. There is also a covered bridge in Wakefield, the original bridge burnt down in the 1980’s so they rebuilt a replica but this one is for walking and bikes only. We walked across and got some pictures of the river it crosses – all in all a real pretty place. We had lunch there then came back down to Ottawa.

We went to Ikea – what a zoo, then drove along the waterfront, up Sussex Drive past 24 Sussex and Rideau Hall, then toured around Rockcliffe – wow the houses there! On the boat tour yesterday they said the average house price in Rockcliffe is 2.5M so you can just guess what the houses are like. It appears that there are a lot of ambassadors living in the area, hard to take!!

It was about 6:30 when we got home and had started to rain so I thought John would get wet doing the barbecue but it stopped right after he got the awning out and hasn’t rained since, wouldn’t it be nice if the forecast is wrong! Tomorrow is the War Museum so if it wants to rain that is fine.