Day 45-Sleep, Rest & Rose Smelling!

I woke at 5am flew out of bed then realised I could actually sleep in, we aren’t going anywhere today…. So after another hour or so, we got up got dressed and headed up the road to the little restaurant we saw last night when we arrived..it turns out it us actually owned by a Ukrainian, with local costume hanging proudly in the main area, a flag and bits and pieces of the home land dotted around the room… the support for the Ukrainian situation in this country is phenomenal…..signs and flags being flown in many, many communities we have gone through.. There is a large Ukrainian community living in Canada as well, just seeing their church’s dotted around is an easy way to see their influence in the country…

There was only one young women as the waitress and the poor girl was run off her feet… the room was packed and more coming through the door continually…. Good thing we weren’t having to get in the road it took over an hour for the meal….but the coffee kept being filled freely and constantly….mind you by the time the Brekky come I had, had that much coffee I couldn’t really fit in the Brekky….

After Brekky we went for a bit if a drive check out the area….Going down by the River you could see there has been flooding..further along the homes by the water had big sandbags placed all around them to protect them…we were also on an Indian reservation area again!

As we drove by a section of the reservation there was a massive blue building with like TeePee affect coming out of its roof…..it had the most unusual shape, it must have been like the community centre for the area…. Further in we went, off over a huge big bridge from here we could see another big lift bridge in the distance up in the air.,.obviously for bigger boats…. But it appeared to be in the up position permanently which was odd to see….The bigger bridge we drive on and other bridge sections going from one little island to the next…the area was dotted with small islands…on each is,and was a massive tower for electricity….with heaps of objects placed on the lines to stop th sea planes flying into them…the place is littered with sea planes…On each of the islands were heaps of cars with their boats or empty boat trailers as they were out fishing….a big thing this fishing in these here parts from the look of the numbers out…

We got to see the flying up and down the river in front of our motel which is right on the border section between Canada 🇨🇦 and USA 🇺🇸…. Strange to think just a few metres out in the water is the US you can nearly swim out to touch this invisible line…..🤔😂!

Driving around we came across a big sea plane storage unit….all their talks were taken off…not sure why…obviously Covid has affected the amount if sea l,Ames being used at present…from the look of all the planes just sitting there, it looks like it would have been a massive operation….

Back to town we went to find a place to have a cuppa…. John kept taking roads to try and take us along the waterfront, however nearly every street to the water was closed off we did discover it must have been to do with the flooding that most had gone down by now…but still looked like they were assessing the damage…heaps of floating boardwalks were wrecked along the banks in on a few areas we looked…it does look like quite a bit of post flooding damage to mend…

We headed out to Walmart after looking around the Main Street…not a coffee shop or restaurant in sight…,we had hoped the building with Walmart might have one but no such luck..,,we looked around Walmart it was a mixture of Big W and Woolies combined….Everything was so much more expensive and as you wandered around the choices we have at home really are so much more choice…. I see that as a bonus and a curse….even the foods we have on offer are so much more choice and yes that’s both as well…A bonus and a curse…we have so much choice but it has come at a cost of materialism and overweight society….yes there is evidence of a weight issue here but it is 100 times more so at home….😢😢😢😢!

Lucky they have Tim Horton’s here so John could get his cappuccino…I made one back at the unit…we had left over muffins from Brekky packs at other motels, plus when I get a soup they give you plain biscuits to have with it so I had peanut butter on bickies…. Bonus…

Then it as rest time…I had broken rest but John had big sleep…a few hours all this road tripping is wearing him down..

We had to make a sad decision today to let our dear friend Sylvia know we can’t come to Newfoundland to see her as we planned….we had always told her if we come to Canada we would definitely come and see her….what we didn’t count on was the cost of the ferry…the fact that the ferry takes hours 7 hours to get there and that you need to book months ahead to get a sleeper or a descent seat 💺 otherwise you have to sit on hard platforms or wander the decks….we are getting too old for wandering or sitting on hard platforms for hours on end…

Plus we looked at flights but they are so expensive then there is the costs accommodation once there… it played on my mind for days on how to let her know…I did today after we tried to relook at the whole thing realising it really was a difficult decision if we do go….she was gracious saying that since Covid travel off the island is so expensive and difficult to do….still I am sure she us just so disappointed after all these last 22 yrs promising we would visit if we come here…She had flown to Australia to see us… so I feel so very sad I can’t make the visit to her home.,,.

On the other hand we now can slow down our trip a fair bit and smell the roses better….
Definitely smelling the roses today we even got to watch an episode of the Waltons….that takes me back over 35-40 yrs….ohh the memories 🤔🤔🤔😂😂!

Chatting with our neighbours just before we headed off for our dinner at the restaurant near our hotel…they had gone to the resort up the road for lunch and really enjoyed it… so we took their advice and headed there instead….we certainly had a long, looking wait,.,must be in slow time between 2 borders… but worth the wait..,I had little fish bite things that were truly Devine….a couple of cocktails….I really enjoyed what I had just couldn’t finish it…. La Place Rendezvous-Vous Hotel….. the views over the bay out if their deck that a week or so was nearly covered in water and the rest of their bear walk I front off the major Resort deck were under the water but held down with massive heavy containers to hold them down on the pilings…. It was like this all along their foreshores… with all their weighted huge 1,000litre water pods filled with water then multiple sand bags in the top of them… interesting concept to observe….but seems to do the trick…just guess they will know the outcome once it all subsides….apparently they had above average snow melt and they had a Mel function on the gates of their weir causing the extra large flooding not seen here in these parts for over 100yrs….

A day we’ll spent feasting ready for some king hauls back to Tim and Jess’s….

Just before I headed to bed I looked out the window to see the most serene scene with the water so still and the colour if the sky a soft pink hue, with the sun going down…I couldn’t resist I had my nightie on, so out on a big coat and off to get some pics… well worth getting them….

In all the rooms around us everyone seems to have a dog or dogs…seems all hotels take dogs these day here with the owners…used to be no animals, now the animals seem to get preference…funny old society we live in now…Read more