July 23, 2014 (93rd Day)

At 6 am we were awakened by a loud noise. We thought someone had crashed into our van. Turned out it was thunder, and we mean they were really loud.  Oh it is raining hard! Downpour!!! We cannot complain about it because we had been so lucky with good weather most of the mornings. We went back to bed til after 7.  By the time we got up it had stopped raining.

Erwin fixed toasted coconut pancakes per Edith's request.  We had not had pancakes in a long while because most mornings we would try to hurry and leave to begin the trip. Edith usually eats just one pancake at home, but here she had two! It rained again as we were eating. Then came lightning. 

Rain had stopped, so Erwin hurriedly went out to put bikes back on the rack.  Left the campground at 9:50 am.  Stopped by the church to take picture of swan weathervane on the steeple.

Now on way to Upper Canada Village. It is a heritage village that has 40 historical buildings on site.  There are costumed interpreters throughout the village and they showed what it was like during the 19th century. 

The first building we went into has exhibits, so we looked around for a while before going outside to walk around the village. It was humid.  We ate lunch at the Harvest Barn.  Four pigs were on the loose in the village.  The sky looked threatening, but it did not rain the rest of our sightseeing excursion.  It did sprinkle a bit at the beginning, but that was it.  Train ride was $5 per person and we decided not to ride on the train.

The bird eating seeds at grain mil

A couple hundred steps away from the village is the Battle of Crysler's Farm Memorial Field.  It was the 1813 war that the Anglo-Canadians under Joseph Wanton Morrison won against the Americans.

Left Upper Canada village around 1:50 pm

Back to 2 (Waterfront Trail) to Cornwall, ON

As we were driving along it was in Summerstown, ON that Edith saw a nest with ospreys in it.  As soon as Edith got her camera aimed at the nest the parent left the nest with a fish in its talons, leaving the juvenile alone. Each time Edith made sound by shuffling gravel the juvenile would spread its wings.  It was not ready to fly out of the nest.

In Lancaster, ON Edith spotted a  chicken weathervane on the church spire, told Erwin to pull into the church parking lot.  Where we parked there was a sign in front.  Well, it was not Sunday so we were saved :-)

We decided not to visit Montreal, but chose to continue on Interstate 401 to Quebec.  It was 4:15 p.m. when we entered Quebec province line.

There was a service center just after we entered Quebec (QB), went in for a short break and to pick up brochures.

We took exit 29 to 30 EST, paid $3 Canadian dollars to cross the bridge.  There were lots of wind turbines and power towers.  Very lovely countryside, lots of cornfields and silos.

We checked into Camping Aloutte in Saint Mathieu-de-Beloeil, QB for the night. Edith was hoping to capture sunset pictures, but it was not looking good.