Woke up in beautiful Ivy Lea, Ontario at the great KOA we'd stayed at the night before. We still didn't know if we'd be able to change our reservation, but we enjoyed our evening and even considered staying the extra night but soon decided we just wanted to get home. We both cleaned up and by then the office was open, so while Steve was breaking down camp I went to check on our status.
Thankfully I walked out of the office with a smile. Our reservation was cheerfully changed, no problem, such a refreshing change from our previous campground! If we're ever back in this area, you know where we'll stay! Their trip advisor review was much more positive, too.
Also got the answer for the deserted campground. They run a spring special where guests pay for six weekends and are allowed to leave their units on site during the weeks. It was Monday morning and a regular work day in Ontario, so most everyone had gone home the day before.
Got back onto the 401 and headed for home. We got through Toronto mid-day without too much trouble. Though in the US it was Memorial Day, in Toronto it was just another workday, as I stated before. So our timing was good. Had decided to stop at the next service center once we were out of the Toronto area, to have a picnic lunch and hopefully find a cache. Well, that next service center was the one center that was closed for reconstruction....
We decided to stop in Cambridge and had shakes from Wendy's along with our sandwiches. Then we went over to the local WalMart as I wanted to buy some caramel chocolate chip rice cakes, which aren't sold in the US. Oh yeah, Kinder Eggs too. This wasn't the best week to do that, though, as WalMart had their rice cakes on sale for $1 a package. Great price but there were only two packs of caramel chocolate chip left. Bought a few other flavors to try them, at that price. Wish I'd bought more of the tomato herb flavor, they were great!
On to the border, the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia, Ontario/Port Huron, Michigan. I had wanted to stop at the duty-free shop to buy some maple candy but the traffic prevented us from getting through. There was one wait to pay bridge toll, then another wait after crossing the bridge to go through US Customs. We probably took 45 minutes to cross that bridge.
Once back in Michigan, it was starting to get rainy again. With only light rain at the time, I requested one last cache stop, especially since I hadn't found an Ontario cache on this trip. We stopped at a rest area just east of Lansing where there was a challenge cache that I hadn't found. Two other caches in the rest area made for a bonus!
Home - finally - at about 8 pm. Max, when brought into the house, ran like a blue streak up and down the length of the house, then rolled around on his back and you could just tell he was glad to be home! 11 days on leash and harness were the most he's ever had to put up with. So were we. A good trip which could have been better in better weather. But we still got to see lots and spend time together to celebrate our anniversary.
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