Day 3 and on

We last left our audience in Toronto. Since then, we have travelled to Niagara Falls and are currently residing in the Algonquin Vicinity (Maynooth, Ontario).

Aside from our questionable hostel in Niagara Falls, the group thoroughly enjoyed the sights and beauty of the region. We had the opportunity to ride the Maid of the Mist and see a fireworks display over the falls at night. The group also described Clifton Hill as a "Baby Las Vegas". We have pictures posted on our "Photos Page".

We then left Niagara Falls to start our camping adventure in Algonquin Park. We arrived late in the evening to find an uneven amount of buns, hotdogs and hamburgers and no grill. The idioms we've been teaching the students would have deemed us to be "up the creek without a paddle". We quickly made friends with a church group of campers who kindly lent us their barbeques to cook our dinner.

The following morning we started a canoeing trip with a very knowledgeable park ranger named "Kevin". We all learned 6 different canoe strokes and practiced them on a day long excursion up to Pog Lake, Whitefish Lake and Two Rivers. We also portaged across a bank to stop for lunch, many of us were exhausted. Somehow, we managed to get back all in one piece and we ventured out to find showers. We all made it back to our base camp and played a game of "Chubby Bunny" where we shoved as many marsh mellows that we could fit into our mouths. The highest number anyone of us could fit was a total of 7.

Today we had planned on having free time filled with canoeing and kayaking. This plan was rudely interrupted by a swarm of rain clouds and storms. Once we realized that our tents were soaked with rain, we checked the weather forcast to see how long the rain would last. The forcast called for rain all day and into the night. We quickly diverted our plan to include a dry hostel. At this moment, half of us are staying at the South Algonquin HI and the other half are residing at the Mad Musher. The students seem to be relieved to leave the wet campground and seek shelter in a warm dry place with a shower.

Tomorrow we plan to launch off to Ottawa. Stay tuned for more posts!

Katherine, Fraser, Cathie and Stephanie