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Tuesday June 16, 2015

Just to be different, it is raining again!
I use that time to finish the update of our blog.

The rain stopped by noon. We are off looking for caches.
The campground is located right next to the Soulanges Canal.
One of the lift now permanently closed. The canal was used until 1959.

We are on our way to a cache near the dam.

Charles gives me a personal course on what poison ivy looks like.
Beware, the leaves can be of a different form...

After walking a few kilometres, we deserve a small snack.

A hole in the clouds!

Our site at the Camping des Cascades.

You cannot be serious with those two!!!

What a joy to be with good friends again. We talked and laughed a lot tonight!

Wednesday June 17, 2015

Yesterday, I purchased a watermelon cutter. I am trying it on the floor because I do not know how it will behave as I cut the watermelon.

Nice!

While we are caching, Michele is staying home today. She wants to save her back for the move.
The three of us go caching near the campground. We are in the "Anchor Park". Charles is one of the diver who found and retrieved the anchors from the canal and the surrounding waters. Charles, you always surprise me with you multi talented life.

One of the cache is for children and it is a spice rack full of "spices". The spices found are like "dried spit", "ulcer's juice". Everything to scare children. I love this cache and all the work that went into making it.

After walking over 7 kilometers, we have diner at the local snack bar.

We say our goodbye tonight because we will be on the road first thing in the morning to pick up our new motorhome.
Agnes and Charles, once again you were the perfect hosts. What a fun time we had.

We are so excited about getting our new motorhome tomorrow.

Thursday June 18, 2015

One last look at our motorhome!

We are on the road by 8 am to get to the dealership.
One of the reason we love this lifestyle is that you never know what you will see.

We arrive at Cité Caravane by 9:15 am and the paperwork starts.
It is simple, we only have to go to 3 places in order to get everything done. So and so is not ready for us, let's jump to step 2 and we will come back to step one later, Oh, lets do step 3 and we will finish with step one!!! We finally got all the steps done, but it took a long time. We can finally start our move from the old motorhome to the new motorhome a 3:30 pm!
Here is the view from the new motorhome. We can see our old motorhome on the right.

From 3:30 to 9:30, we move the "up-stairs".

We have to stop at 9:30 because a thunderstorm is over us.
I cannot believe how much stuff is in a 40 foot motorhome.

Friday June 19, 2015

I am up at 6 am and we are moving stuff at 7 am.
We finish the upstairs quickly and start on the basement.
Look at my black knees! You really need knee pads to do a move like this.

We are done moving by 10:30 and I think we surprised the people inside. They are not ready for us!!!
We even have time to get lunch at Timmy's.

We are finally on the road at around 2 pm. We have to drive to Hawkesburry to take officially "possession" of the motorhome. We have to do this so we will not have to pay taxes in Quebec and then Ontario. It is all legal.
A look at the rear view camera as we are driving. The first photo is the strait back view and on the right is with the flasher to the right and we have a view of the right side of the motorhome.

The official photo in Hawkesburry.

Since we left the dealership late, we are not driving to North Shore tonight. We stop at the KOA in Mallorytown in the Thousand Islands.

Some reading about the stuff in the motorhome.

As you can see, we still have a lot of stuff to put away. We think it will take us 2 to 3 week to find the right place for our stuff.

Saturday June 20, 2015

We drove to North Shore without any problems. I sure find it different to drive a gas motorhome compare to a diesel pusher motorhome. It will take some getting us to, but so far I love it.

Our new home for a week.

One more time, the inside!

We even have time to sort through some boxes before dark.

We are far from done that is for sure!

Sunday June 21, 2015

No photos of today's work!
Michele has done a lot of work inside and so did I in the basement.
Sort of a nice sunset!

A very busy day.

Monday June 22, 2015

Michele has an appointment at the chiro and we have some shopping to do for the new motorhome.
The first stop is at the car wash as usual.

We bought this small shelving unit to place in the closet. This will give us more room for our clothing.

With the shelving done, time for a little surfing.

We also did place and replace a lot of stuff in the motorhome.

Tuesday June 23, 2015

Another busy morning, we are at the service Ontario office in Brighton to transfer the plates to the new motorhome. We had to wait 30 minutes, which is un-usual.

At two o'clock, we have an appointment at Krown for a rust inhibitor application in Trenton.

While driving to Krown I heard a loud noise in the back of the motorhome!
I stop and see that the fridge door is open. Shoot, I forgot to place the bungee that keeps the fridge door closed during travel.

Here I am at Krown with the technicians getting ready to start the application.

After the rust inhibitor application, I went back to the RV Park while Michele is still shopping.
Here I am getting a large pork roast cut to feed both of us.

I am trying the front seat as a computer station. Nice!

Our automatic satellite antenna is not working properly. I will have to call the technician and figure it out.

The fireplace is on (no heat) while we read.

Another good day!

Wednesday June 24, 2015

Time to re-arrange the stuff under the bed. I take the time to inspect the bedroom slide out mechanism.

We emptied all the kitchen cabinets and replaced the kitchenware in a better fashion.

We went to our appointment with our financial guy and bought a clock for the kitchen.

We sure accomplished a lot today.

Thursday June 25, 2015

At eight thirty Michele was at Helix for an audiogram so the can get a masking device for her tinnitus.

While she is at Helix, I call the technician about the satellite antenna. A few minutes latter, everything is working perfectly.

A few minutes latter, I notice that I am missing a few stations. A quick call to Shaw Direct and now everything is really working.

We chose not to have a washer/drier combo installed in the new motorhome. Michele is now doing laundry at the RV Park.
I wash the motorhome because the treatment for rust left an oily film on the motorhome.

By 4 pm, the rain is back!

I spend the evening reading material about the motorhome and Michele watched TV.

Friday June 26, 2015

Michele has an appointment for a mammogram. Nothing to worry about, it is just a routine check.
To all the women out there, do not hesitate to get a mammogram, you never know.

After we got back home, I get stuff ready for our departure tomorrow morning.
I really need to wash the windshield because of the residual oil from the rust proofing.

Almost ready to go.

We are very anxious to see our families.

Saturday June 27, 2015

Off we go!
With the birthday of Canada coming up, you start to see more and more Canada flags.

Goodbye North Shore, see you next May.

We did not drive very far, less than 5 km. We have breakfast at the locale restaurant.

With a full belly, we hit the road.

The 401 going east to Quebec.
The motorhome is very different to drive compare to a diesel motorhome.

As you can see, it is very difficult.

Our first stop/visit is at my sister's place. Christianne and Julien.

We have a lot of catching up to do...

It is good to see my sister and Julien again!

Sunday June 28, 2015

Christianne and Julien have invited family members for diner and evening.

Suzie and Rolland.

Anik and Marc, We did not get a photo of their two sons.

Guillaume and Marilou.

Rolland playing with Coralie.

Coralie!

We seem to always finish the evening at the kitchen table!

Denis, Estelle, Christianne and Rolland.

It is a pleasure to see the Matte family again.
Thank you Christianne and Julien for this day.

Monday June 29, 2015

Julien is giving us a ride on his spider motorcycle. WOW! What a machine!

We are getting ready to go to the new buffet restaurant called "Buffet des Continents".
Here is a view of our "campsite".

This about 2/3 of the restaurant. The food and variety of food was good.

With our belly full, we got back to Julien and Christianne's place and went for a walk to help digest the food we just had!
We walk tot he little park with a small lake, creek and small falls.