Mom and Dad are finally here. We picked them up in Hamilton
on Friday the 19th and were back in Penetang by 4pm. We played some cards, the boys against the
girls and unfortunately the boys won. The girls would get them back on Saturday night!
Saturday we set out to go visit the Keewatin this is a ship, built in
the early 1900's, designed to travel from Penetanguishene to Thunder bay. The
tour was very informative.
They set up the rooms in different era's to portray
each of the 5 decades that the boat was in service.
The centre sitting area was quite impressive with all the
greenery and all the painted windows.
These windows are the original windows painted in Murano Italy back in
1904.
Mom M and I rested a bit in the Ladies' parlor, designed to
enjoy high tea, 
while the boys rested in the Men's lounge to enjoy a little
crib game. 
After the tour of all these
rooms we ended up in the engine room. The engine is 3 stories tall, with
pistons that are 8 feet in diameter. These things are impressive, especially if
you consider the fact that they had no computer designers back then and the
machining of these impressive pieces with tolerances of fractions of inches
must have been a real engineering challenge.
We ended our day in the company of Jeff and Susan, and one
more last meal together. We had a
wonderful week with them both and once again, we will miss their great smiles
and friendly banter over a card game. 
Today, father's day was the beginning of our trip toward
Peterborough. It was pouring rain in the am, so we did not actually take off
until around 10am. We made our way through the first lock in Severn and then
the marvel of the Big Chute where we will now spend the rest of our afternoon.
Tomorrow we will be working our way toward Orillia for a little visit into that
town. Hopefully we get some nice weather
for that. I will leave you with a picture of this very astute sign noted at the washrooms at the Keewatin.
Truer words have never been spoken.
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