Maritimes - Day 2

Today was a VERY long travel day, but through some beautiful areas of Canada.  Our plan was to leave Winnipeg early and drive to Kenora for a 10:30am church service, which given our slight delays yesterday, I wasn't 100% certain we were going to make.  However, the kids did a great job of getting out of bed, getting dressed and eating breakfast, so that we were packed up and out of the hotel room just before 8:00am.  Then it was an hour and a half of driving on an empty highway until we arrived at the Ontario border.  We stopped for a quick picture and then drove into the Canadian Shield and arrived in Kenora (where there were roundabouts!) right in time for church.

After the service, we drove on to Dryden, stopped for lunch and then drove all the way down to Kakabeka Falls, where we stopped to look at the waterfall.  It was very beautiful and I think all the kids enjoyed it.  Then it was time to push on into Thunder Bay, where our 700km day finally ended.  It was 32C for most of the trip and when we were at the falls, but after driving the final 40km into Thunder Bay, it was 20C with a cold wind blowing in off the lake.

I enjoyed the drive, but my back and neck muscles were starting to hurt for the last few hours.  The road through Ontario is only two lanes, due to all the rocks, and traffic was fairly steady to busy, depending on where you were or what slow traffic you were stuck behind.

We checked into our hotel, got supper at Superstore and then I basically collapsed while the kids played in the hotel room.  Tomorrow we're exploring a few things in the Thunder Bay area, as we aren't leaving here until Tuesday.