IN NORTH ONTAR-I-O-I-O*

בס"ד


19 Av

Drove to Ottawa!
We had made a picnic lunch for ourselves to eat on Parliament Hill. We ate by the statues honouring The Famous Five, then toured around the Hill admiring the architecture & exploring its many features...including a cat sanctuary!

We tried to confirm our camp site in Kiosk, so we could camp in legendary Algonquin park.
Light was going away, so we turned down the road to Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park to do mincha & set up camp. That was when the engine began to squeal like a banshee (what do banshees sound like when they squeal?) & threads of black smoke began rising from under the hood. We stopped & immediately turned off the motor. I dashed to the back & started chucking our stuff out of the car, just in case it was going to blow up. Joel looked at the engine & we discovered one of the belts had burned through. Great. A belt is a critical part - trouble is, we didn't know what the belt was FOR, so we knew we had to call for help in the morning. Our poor car limped into the park, we got a lovely, simple little campsite on Moore Lake & we settled in for the night.


* in memory of Wade Hemsworth