Our Grand Adventure - Orillia

We got back to our condo pretty late on Thursday night, so it's a good thing Friday was our down day. I knew we didn't want to run nonstop since this is supposed to be our vacation, but there are so many things to do and see around here that we didn't sit around for long. My sweetie had an idea about how we could see another lake so we punched it into the GPS and took off.

...after we cleaned up the kitchen, of course.

The weather has cleared up a bit here, but there is still about 6 inches (Li'l Bro you can do the conversion this time...) of snow on the ground. This part of Ontario is interesting. There are little pockets of cities here and there and scattered homes in most places that aren't covered with trees. Looking at the map, we had no idea that we were heading for a place that was well-populated. What looked like a deserted point was actually a long row of mostly small homes all bunched up with their backs against the water.

We finally drove down to what promised to be "water attractions" and we found a nice little park with a boat dock and what was likely a little beach when it wasn't covered with snow. All of the little summer shops were closed up tight with signs that read "See you next season!" and similar things. So we drove on.

Our little town was actually quite big and called Orillia pronounced O-relia (I asked someone just to be sure) and as you know, Relia is a family name. I quickly texted Scout to let her know since it is her middle name and she was quite excited at the prospect of a town named after her. Since it was way past lunchtime, we started looking for somewhere to eat, and we found a main street that reminded us of our own hometowns. We settled on "Chinese Canadian," a decision we would come to regret, but they had restrooms so that sealed the deal.

Those are called sweet and sour chicken balls. My sweetie had a lot of fun with the name...

After we paid way too much for sub-par food, we decided to explore the shops, Unfortunately, we like shopping way more than we should and several hundred dollars later, we climbed back in our car to make our way to Barrie. My sweetie had purchased some studs for his shoes (like for tires) and he had the wrong size so we needed to exchange them.

We had already decided that if things worked out, we wanted to see the new Ford vs. Ferrari movie. After a frustratingly long wait for customer service in the WalMart, we almost changed our minds, but at the last minute we quickly drove to the theatre and bought tickets. I was hoping to hear from Crafty since it was our time to Skype, but after about 30 long minutes, she emailed me to say that she was having trouble with her phone and we would only be able to email today. For me, even that was sporadic. We finally gave up and she said goodbye right before the movie started.

We enjoyed popcorn and treats right up until the last 10 minutes of a rather long movie. I'm recommending you leave about then if you see it. The movie and all of the old cars was amazing! Sadly, you can't change truth and this one was historical for the most part, but I don't want to give anything away.

We drove back to the condo, ate leftovers and packed so we can check out on Saturday morning. We have the condo for one more day, but we decided that we want to see Niagara Falls from the Canadian side tomorrow and my sweetie doesn't want to drive all the way back up here since we will already be much closer to Detroit.

I don't have many pics today, but I should have plenty of amazing ones of the falls for tomorrow. See you then.