Saturday night we decided to stay in, BBQ some dinner, and have a quiet evening rather than making any donations to the local casino! It was also starting to rain quite heavily so an easy decision.
In the morning, after getting the wet awnings up and the bus "dumped, we left Hammock Harbour RV park in a drizzle. Cool, misty and muggy and clammy. It had rained for a good portion of the evening so lots of water/mud around,, which continued for most of the drive down the east side of Lake Simcoe.
We needed to turn off west and south) on Hwy 48, which came up rather suddenly to our left, so Dale made a quick turn and after a few KM's discovered that as we were heading east, it was the wrong Hwy 48 (we have discovered there are two Hwy 48's and two Hwy 5's). However, a short drive through the countryside and we were able to re-join Hwy 12 to eventually join the right Hwy 48. The road signage in Ontario is the pits!!
Lots of traffic, everyone starting to head home from the "cottage country", probably early because of the cool and wet weather. However, we arrived in Newmarket in good time and drove over to Glenn & Irene's. Parked on the street in front of their house and we had tea and a tour on the bus. From there we went over to Irene's to say a quick hello/goodbye to both her and Allan and thank them for their hospitality and then continued on to Oakville.
The 404 was bumper to bumper by this time (around 3:00 p.m.) so slow going until we could turn off west onto the ERT 407. This 407 is a fabulous road around Toronto and guess that because it is a fairly expensive toll road, great numbers of driver's do not use it. An easy and pleasant drive for us. It is only just over an hour from Newmarket to Oakville, so not a difficult or trying drive..just traffic!
Decided to be lazy and went over the the Mandarin Restaurent for dinner. (same chain as the one we went to in Newmarket). The food,service etc was equally as impressive as our previous experience. The specials this night were crab legs and prime rib...excellent..plus all the sushi and chinese food and desserts that you could eat. A pleasant evening back at the bus (I am playing Lexulous on Facebook with several friends and it tends to get addictive!!).
Now, Dale is outside with the YanMar diesel guy getting the work done on the generator. With some of the work already done Dale decided to not put in the new sensor/heat gauge (just continue to monitor with the "gun") and it looks like, with some repairs done, the old gauge is starting to work...???? Guess we will know for sure when everything is finished.
Still not able to add pictures, not sure what is wrong with the blog program? Will try and figure it out later. Till next time then......
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