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My Birthday trip- Day 1

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 E has been bugging me to write this out. My birthday trip was fantabulous, there is no other way to describe it. I saw the Northern Lights and I saw all the stars in the sky, I fed goats and pigs and I sent a message via air phone to my parents. There is so much more to tell so lets get started.

Our intinerary:

Day 1: Midland/Sudbury
Day 2: Sudbury
Day 3: Manitoulin Island Eco-Park Dark Park
Day 4: Ferry/ Tobermory
Day 5: Writers Cottage
Day 6: Writers Cottage
Day 7: Collingwood (3 days here)

I was supposed to go to E's for a week as well but I was so anxious to do the cutting and pasting I needed to do and there is no place in his home for me to set-up and work, so I returned home.

Day 1: Midland/ Sudbury

We left home around 9 am or rather we intended to but we were a little delayed. As we were going out to the car a young man asked for a boost so we helped him out. Then we had to go meet GD#1 and pick up my birthday gift a lovely new journal. Then we headed out to Midland to visit with my baby sister and her family.

We didn't stop on the way there mainly because we were travelling at highway speed and I always saw them too late for Rob to stop. Once we got to Sandy's we chatted for awhile about computers or rather they did with E, then we went out to lunch. My plan had been to take Sandy alone but we ended up with both my nieces and my grand nephews. We went to a place called Stacked Pancake & Breakfast House where I had a Cornbread Chicken Waffle and a Smoothie. We talked about a lot and caught each other up.
Once we got them back home we headed to Sudbury and our hotel.

Along the way we went to National Nutrition to pick up a couple of bees wax candles for the bunkie (that's later). 

We also stopped at Muskoka Trading post and picked up a smudging kit. I was glad I did I only needed it once, the place was so sad but I digress. E was startled to see the lower price of gas within the Reserve.

We were spending the night at the Quality Inn in Sudbury. It was well suited for two people like E and I with three places to plug in.

We went to a place called Sizzle for dinner. It is a Mongolian Grill and they cook the food while you watch. It was a interesting place though I think next time I will put more liquids in my bowl as the noodles were kinda chewy. Definitely a experience I wouldn't mind repeating.

Before going back to the hotel to play our games we wandered over towards Dynamic Earth, it was very crowded so we didn't stay long. After some discussion we decided to skip Dynamic Earth and go to Science North instead.



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