There are some things that you just have to change when you move. One thing for us was to get our Ontario Driver's Licence. We had to give up our New South Wales licences and their mournful looking photographs and swap them for brand new Ontario licences with an equally their mournful looking photograph. Oh well our new ones arrived so the thought was we better go for a drive and test it out.
So we fuel up to head off to Orillia.
So we fuel up to head off to Orillia.While we were filling up with Gas we were joined by some of the interesting vehicles Canadians have. The Muskoka area sees hundreds of snow machines zooming around most weekends. Julie is threatening to go riding one soon (not sure that's a good idea Carm).
By the way fuel is around $1.08 in Gravenhurst and this seems to be a fairly good price to me.
What's in Orillia? Well for one thing there is a CAA shop. For those who aren't aware CAA stands for the Canadian Automobile Association which has an agreement with Australia's NRMA and that gave us the opportunity to stock up on maps. It's not that we don't trust our girl Garmin but a map is a sort of reassuring thing even if you can't read it as fast as Garmin the GPS works. Never mind, we have both now!!!!
We returned to Gravenhurst where we prepared to go out to our first musical event. Mmmmm about time, but I guess we have been reasonably busy! The event was a coffee and folk music night and took place took place at Muskoka Place Gallery near Port Carling. http://www.muskokaplace.ca/
This event was made much easier by us being driven to the show by Peter and Leslie who are friends from just around the corner. Leslie had met Julie at Exercise Classes and invited us to call around and have a drink, we had ummed and ahhhed for at least 37 seconds before accepting their invitation. Off we went on foot, on a dark and snowy night (after all walking is one of my strengths and when you add my balance what could be easier). However a good night was had by all! I guess I can't really speak for Peter and Leslie, but at least we had a good time!!
That feeling must have been at least somewhat mutual as we learned about many events in music, on film and in the arts community and what's more we were invited to them. That is what led us to Muskoka Place Gallery and a show that included a drummer and story teller, a native flute player and Lorne Brown ( a banjo player, singer and story teller).
A good night, good company, interesting music and musicians and fabulous artwork! John and Pam Cowan would have been well and truly at home at this event.
Sunday saw us up reasonably early and heading to Barrie to meet for lunch with Sharon and Jim Taylor who hail from Ottawa. Sharon is a person with MS who we stayed with them on our Eastern Adventure in 2007 and it was very nice to meet with them again they were in Barrie for Sharon to have a follow up after her CCSVI treatment that she had in the hope that it would make a difference to the MS journey. It will be interesting to see what effect the treatment has for her.
Moose Winooskis was the venue for our meal. Have a look at the website http://www.barrierestaurants.com/Moose-Winooskis. Whatever you see on line only tells half the story!!!!
A quiet weekend at home????? Oh well I'm sure next weekend will be much quieter.
Only an all night bus trip and a weekend in Quebec City.............
We returned to Gravenhurst where we prepared to go out to our first musical event. Mmmmm about time, but I guess we have been reasonably busy! The event was a coffee and folk music night and took place took place at Muskoka Place Gallery near Port Carling. http://www.muskokaplace.ca/
This event was made much easier by us being driven to the show by Peter and Leslie who are friends from just around the corner. Leslie had met Julie at Exercise Classes and invited us to call around and have a drink, we had ummed and ahhhed for at least 37 seconds before accepting their invitation. Off we went on foot, on a dark and snowy night (after all walking is one of my strengths and when you add my balance what could be easier). However a good night was had by all! I guess I can't really speak for Peter and Leslie, but at least we had a good time!!
That feeling must have been at least somewhat mutual as we learned about many events in music, on film and in the arts community and what's more we were invited to them. That is what led us to Muskoka Place Gallery and a show that included a drummer and story teller, a native flute player and Lorne Brown ( a banjo player, singer and story teller).
A good night, good company, interesting music and musicians and fabulous artwork! John and Pam Cowan would have been well and truly at home at this event.
Sunday saw us up reasonably early and heading to Barrie to meet for lunch with Sharon and Jim Taylor who hail from Ottawa. Sharon is a person with MS who we stayed with them on our Eastern Adventure in 2007 and it was very nice to meet with them again they were in Barrie for Sharon to have a follow up after her CCSVI treatment that she had in the hope that it would make a difference to the MS journey. It will be interesting to see what effect the treatment has for her.
Moose Winooskis was the venue for our meal. Have a look at the website http://www.barrierestaurants.com/Moose-Winooskis. Whatever you see on line only tells half the story!!!!
A quiet weekend at home????? Oh well I'm sure next weekend will be much quieter.
Only an all night bus trip and a weekend in Quebec City.............
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