Day 7 and the last day too

Day 7 and the last day too

The internet here is terrible, 1 bar of 3G so uploading the blog, or doing anything really, most of the time you're watching the spinning wheel of death. 

As soon as the girls get up in the morning they ask if I'm done the blog. This morning because I woke up early I had it mostly done and was just adding the pictures. So Sophie lay in bed beside me holding the phone and watching the spinning wheel of death until it was published and then all 3 girls woke up, piled into bed and read the blog.

After breakfast they all went to the park, they had made arrangements to meet Katelyn at 10am. I didn't see them again until 11:30am when they came and asked if they could go swimming. While they were gone I had a shower and enjoyed the peace that comes with an empty campsite. Lol. Jay went for a bike ride, missed a turn and ended up biking an extra 10km. 

The girls got changed for the swim, Sophie wanted to try this floating dock/mat that's on the water, but when they got down there they put a toe in, looked at the mucky entry and decided to hit the heated pool instead. 

They dipped a toe in the water and said the pond was warmer.  "You think the pond is warmer?"  Yeah. "It said it was heated." Well that was wrong, Myah said - her tone of voice was so disgusted. Lol. 

When Jay got back we decided to go out for lunch then back to Sauble. We went back to Walker House in Southampton and both ordered the burger, which was good - but not as good as the "Best Burger in Tobermory".  

The restaurant has a bunch of TVs so everyone can watch no matter what seat you're in. Jay wonders why a baseball Manager wears a uniform like the players when no other coach in professional sports does that. He decided to send it out to the "boys" to get their opinions. They bantered back and forth and then Jay lost it over an inappropriate text, I think I mostly because it came from Dwayne and it's unexpected, he laughed until he cried. He doesn't do that often!  It was a total burn on Trev and I can't repeat it on the blog!

From lunch we went to the dunes again, the girls choice, and after an hour and a half there we went to Sauble Falls, mostly because I had to pee. 

I entered the most disgusting bathroom/outhouse I've ever been in before. There were 3 flies flying around the seat and bowl and the smell was fowl. I breathed through my mouth, and didn't even want to think of the stink I was breathing in.  But then I didn't quite hover close enough and pissed down the back of my legs and onto the floor, more splash back from peeing on the front of the seat and thought 'Great, now I'm part of the problem with this bathroom. Fucking beautiful'.

The girls decided they would jump off the falls - Paige went first and did it so quickly I didn't get a chance to even get my phone ready to video!  Myah went next and I got her jump and Sophie was last and took a REALLY long time. 

She was standing at the edge saying to Jay "I really want to jump but the water is too fast, but the water is too cold, but it's too loud, but there are fish, but there are rocks, but it's too high..." and on and on. Finally she jumped and she popped up with a panicked look on her face and said "I don't like this, I don't like this, I don't like this. It's so cold. It's so cold". In her defence all the girls popped up with the same wide eyed look of panic the other two just faked it better!

Sophie got out and came straight over to me and said "Daddy said there were no fish but then I saw a duck go down and eat a big one just after he said that!" Lol. 

We got back to the Campground and I got dinner started on the BBQ we got from my brother (Thank You Matthew!). I also brought hashbrown casserole and the microwave in the motorhome is convection so it doubles as an oven. So we had jerk chicken, sausage, pasta salad and hashbrown casserole. Myah again was like "what's in here? It's so good". Hashbrowns. "No, like what are all the ingredients". So I listed them all for her, not sure she will make it, but she likes it!

As I was making dinner Jay was looking all over for his iPad. Finally, when the girls biked up I said "I'll give you guys $5 if you find the iPad" (we had both looked all over). Within minutes Sophie said "did you leave it on the piece of wood at the dune?"  OMG. So Jay and the girls left in the middle of dinner prep, I turned off the BBQ and figured it would take them about 35 mins to get there and back. But in the car Paige's finger started to bleed so Sophie opened the glove box to get a napkin et voila!  iPad located. They were back in about 20 mins. 

After dinner the girls biked back down to the park and we told them just to come back when it was dark. We read outside for a bit then got all the beds ready. It was cold, so Jay went to bed in his sweatpants and sweater. The "king size" bed is as wide as a king but is short like a double so my feet hang off the bottom if I sleep with my arm up, which I do, and Jays REALLY hang off. He said "I think I'll be warm enough but my feet will be cold". 'Put socks on. They're blankets for your feet'. He didn't. His feet were cold. 

It was FREEZING when we woke up. I got up and started the fireplace (electric heater). 

We packed up after breakfast giving the girls each a chore to do and then letting them go to the park while Jay and I finished up the last half hour. Our goal was to leave around 10:30 and it was 10:40 when we pulled out of the campsite. 

So long Glamping!  By the end Jay said "If we do this again...". He never made it to the 7th circle of hell so he might just forget how much he didn't like it. We'll see. 

The Dunes

Day 6

I made my breakfast this morning with two coffees because the cups are so small!  And my peanut butter and banana sandwich. 

The girls wanted to rent a Go Kart this morning, it's $5 for 30 mins here, so they waited while Jay went for a run and I made some calls. As soon as Jay got back they had him go down to the office and get the cart and came back with it, very excited. 

We did a tour around with Jay and I pedalling and then let the girls ride around until their time was up. 

We decided to head to the dunes on the other side of Sauble that we had seen while driving in yesterday so packed the skim boards in the car and took off. 

The skim boards were a bust, not slippery enough, but the girls had fun playing in the sand and then I suggested they did a running long jump competition, which lasted at least 45 minutes. 

Paige was the clear leader the entire competition, even when Myah finally out jumped her her next jump she tied. We told the girls last jump and Paige and Myah failed to break their tie and Sophie had her final jump. She shouted "how fast should I run" (keep in mind she is running downhill in sand). I said "This is make or break baby. Either the wheels come off and you face plant or you beat them". She crushed it!  Lol. Paige and Myah got one final jump to defend their title but neither could beat Sophie's jump. 

Jay measured the final jump at 12 lengths of his size 13 feet!

We headed into Sauble to go to lunch and ended up at a little diner. I ordered chicken schnitzel (which came out as chicken parmesan) which was ok. It was close and fast service and that's what we were looking for since we didn't leave the dunes until 2:30pm and hadn't had lunch yet. We seem to be eating lunch really late then end up just snacking for dinner. 

Jay also got a call from Howard that his car is sold and his new pick up truck is ready. So it looks like we are going home a day early so he can sign the ownership and get the car to Howard. What he will do to get out of camping!

At some point Sophie tried to get Paige in trouble for daring her to lick a honey package but Myah piped up and said "no she didn't". Jay said that if they told on each other for one more trivial thing trying to get the other in trouble..and Sophie interrupted and asked what trivial means. "Trivial means stupid. Unless your sister hits you in the face with a stick..." he would have continued that but both Paige and I busted a gut with mouths full of drinks. I had it under control until Myah made a swinging motion like she had an invisible bat to Paige's face and made a "wuhpush" sound and I lost it and had to spit my drink back into the cup so I didn't snarf it out my nose. 

After lunch we went down to see the beach which was super turbulent. I've never seen, or don't remember, Sauble Beach so wavy. There was a man looking like he was having difficulty getting out of the water so Jay got out of the car (we had parked facing the water on the beach but it was too cold and windy to stay out). Jay offered to help him and got his shorts all wet just in a wet your pants pattern through his crotch somehow. 

It was too cold to stay down there so the girls wanted to go back to the dunes!  So we went back and they did more long jump and just played in the dirt for another few hours. 

When we got back to the motorhome we had forgotten to get milk for the cereal slaughter that happens every morning. So I asked the girls to do the dishes and then ride to the front office and see if they have milk. 

About 10 mins later Myah came out "Dana, are we going to get milk or are you going to get milk?  You're going to get milk. "Do we have to pay for it?"  Have you paid for any groceries? "No". Right, that's why you're doing dishes.   That seemed satisfactory to her. 

The girls met a friend at the park. When they went to the office to get milk we said they could each get a treat. Sophie got Aero, Myah got mint Aero and Paige got Icebreakers. Paige was using her Icebreakers at the park and doling them out to Sophie and Myah did challenges and one of Sophie's challenges was to ask a girl, Katelyn, to play. I said "you gave Sophie and Icebreaker to meet someone new?  You know what Icebreaker is right?  It's something you say to meet someone new?"  It was lost on them. But, they were gone the rest of the night until almost dark when Jay left to find them so he "didn't get bed sores" lol. I've read 4 books I think since we started this adventure. 

When they came back in the motorhome I said "Myah, I have a question" Yeah. "Did you eat your cheesies?" She immediately flopped into the couch with a guilty grin "Did you say the other half of your Aero bar?" Yeaaah. "Did you eat your peanut butter and jam sandwich?"  Noooo. So she sat and finished her sandwich while the girls did the dishes from dinner and then she was stuck on putting away duty again. Lol. 

The girls want to meet Katelyn back at the park at 10am and kept asking if I wasn't awake could they just go. Why wouldn't I be awake at 10am?  I've been the first one up around 7:30am every morning. But if you're not then can we. OMG. Yes, just tell us you're going and go. 

I was brushing Paige's hair before bed because it's a rats nest and when I was done I told her if she didn't want the brushing in the morning to be bad she should put it in a braid, so she did. Then Myah asked if I would brush her hair, which is SO soft, and when I was done I said "Do you want a braid Myah?" There was no hesitation at all as she said  "Sure!" And her hand immediately lifted with an elastic at the ready. 

It's supposed to be the same, weather wise, tomorrrow. 18 degrees with some cloud. We'll try the beach again and the falls but will likely end up at the dunes again for a long jump championship round!