Sunday 16.5.2010 day 214 Niagara Falls We work up and watched Mark Webber win the F1 in Monaco it was very cool as we where there driving on those streets only a few weeks ago. After watching the race we went and had a look at the whirlpool just up the river from the falls then we went back and had another look at the falls we sat in a park close by and just watched the water fall over it is mesmerising. That night we went out for dinner in the main street and had another look at the falls at night with the lights. ... read more

Friday 14.5.2010 day 212 Ottawa Valley It is overcast today so we are just hanging around our resort and filling out all the paper work to try and get some money back from the money we lost due to the ash over the UK air space. ... read more

Wednesday 12.5.2010 day 210 Farm visit Today we went to the local library and printed out our travel claim forms and photocopied our recepts and checked our emails. Then in the afternoon we went on a farm tour of a local dairy farm that has over 200 head of cows. On the way there we saw a few ground hogs. They all live in a 400 ft barn were they have room to lie down or stand up. They are milked twice a day and we were there for the milking they milk them 20 at a time. There were also lots of calves there and lots of pregnant cows. It was fun to pat the little calves, they were outside in big dog houses and where chained in. When we got back to our lodge ... read more

Monday 10.5.2010 day 208 Ottawa’s Tulip Festival and Montreal Today we drove to Canadian’s capital city Ottawa it is only about an hour from our lodge we had a look at the Tulip festival. It is the largest Tulip festival in the world from a gift of international friendship given 6 decades ago in 1945 Princess Juliana of Netherlands gave Ottawa 100,000 tulip bulbs. The gift was in appreciation of the safe haven that members of Holland’s exiled royal family received during the second WW in Ottawa and in recognition of the role which Canadian troops played in the liberation of the Netherlands. Princess Margret was born in Ottawa civic Hospital. There are over 3 million tulips in the festival. We also went to the parliament buildings on Parliament hill they look a lot like Westminster. ... read more

Saturday 8.5.2010 day 206 Moving from Collingwood to Cobden Today we checked out of our Collingwood resort and drove 6 hours to our Cobden resort. It was a lovely drive though the country and it rained or snowed most of the day. We drove though Algonquin Provincial Park. The park is 7,724 square km and has more than 400 animal species including moose, black bears and beavers. We did not see any bears or moose we did see lots of Beaver lodges. Our new resort has its own lake and is in the middle of a forest within a few minutes of checking in we saw a beaver and a chipmunk. There are also lots of birds all around our lodge and we are told that dear come right up to it so we cannot wait ... read more