Thursday, July 30, 2009

Day 51, Thursday, July 30, 2009

The ice maker works! We’re almost back to 100%! The plan is to find one part for the generator when we get to Peterborough. Tomorrow we will stay in Hastings then two days in Peterborough. This coming weekend is a national holiday and we will be with a group of friends to help celebrate it. We are not sure exactly what the holiday is but we’ll celebrate with the best of them.

We saw Ann & Ralph off this morning - they are headed for Peterborough. They will probably move ahead of us for the remainder of this season. Kathi & Harold came over and the four of us took a nice bike ride to Campbellford's suspension bridge - then to the chocolate factory. There was a major sale at the factory due to an anniversary. The factory was selling 15 pounds of candy for 20 dollars! It looked like a feeding frenzy with people filling large sacks with fifteen one pound bags of their favorite candy! Yes, Barb and Kathi both purchased 15 pounds of candy – which filled their backpacks! On the way back to our boats we stopped for a couple rounds of cold drinks and a few appetizers.

Tomorrow we will fuel up at 7 am when the fuel dock opens across from where were at now. The station sells gas and diesel for 91.9 cents per liter – the cheapest fuel we have seen in Canada! When you convert liters to gallons and factor in the exchange rate the cost is $3.11 per gallon.