Ontario continued

Ontario continues to be the most visual part of the drive, it's been pretty lovely and scenic. We are taking the northern route to try and avoid some of the traffic and because Justin has never done this route before.

We drove for a fair bit - close to 650kms and found a lovely camp site for our first camp of this journey. We found Macleod Provincial Park campground and set up shop and went right to bed. We woke to Sally saying...."We're in the trailer, we're camping!!" She was so excited. When we woke up, Justin made breakfast, including bacon, and we spent some time exploring. We found the lake and dipped our toes in it, everyone including Ruby. Sally went for a full on swim. She is such a water kid.

We packed up and hit the road around 2... we gave ourselves a break and tried to run out the Littles before continuing on our way. It was such a nice break and totally worth the stop in action.

Back on the road, we managed to get to Iriquois Falls and find a lovely hotel for the night. We originally had an Inn booked in Cochrane, ON but when we drove up we both had a gut feeling of impending doom and disease. The place looked awful and run down. I had a pizza delivered and the pizza delivery guy asked if we were staying there.... he said that it is filthy and awful. He tried to help us find a hotel for the night in Cochrane but they were ALL booked up. Justin found a place 30 mins up the road, thank goodness. The hotel was perfect, we all had a bath or shower and settled in for a good sleep!

Another successful day, a little over 1/2 way to Cape Breton!!!

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