A Day in Dover

So the last couple of days have given me a better sense of what the weather can be like here in Ontario.
We have had humidity, tornado like winds, torrential rain, loud thunder, lightening all around you, heat and sunshine....yup that about covers it. All in 2 or 3 days.

There have been some awesome storm systems moving through the area. Two days ago around 1pm there was a BIG storm that came through. It blew the rain all over. The thunder boomed and the lightening cracked above. The power flickered and we got soaked as we ran to rescue a couple things that shouldn't have been getting wet (our big floor fan and Mona's vacuum). It was awesome to watch. That was the night that Melody & Marvin arrived in Southern Ontario on their way through to Cape Breton. We went later to pick them up and bring them to Mona's (the threat of wind and rain was still pretty high and a motorbike is just not so much fun that way). As we went through Selkirk there were roads closed because of power lines out, VERY large trees knocked out by their roots and even part of a barn roof that was missing. Almost a tornado was what the weather people said after it was all over. I thought it was pretty neat actually. The lightening lasted all night although most of it stayed up in the clouds. It lit up the sky as bright as day all around us. Since that afternoon we have had rising humidity then a small storm on and off for a few days now. I must say I really don't mind the humidity. It bothers Bill a bit but I myself don't really dislike it at all.



Yesterday we hung around with Melody & Marvin in Port Dover. It is a little town (about 5,000 pple) on the coast of Lake Erie. It is a very popular tourist spot and a great place for swimming and trinkets. I must say my mom would love all the lighthouses and beachy stuff you could find everywhere! We spent the day there starting it off with a famous Port Dover foot long hotdog. It was really really good.

We then finished lunch off with some ice cream. We wandered up and down the streets looking in the stores. Bill and I refrained from buying anything mainly cause we have nowhere to put anything right now. There was lots to see. We ended the day eating dinner right on the lake on the restaurants patio and dipping our feet in Lake Erie (really warm actually). The weather was perfect and so was the day.

Today was spent sleeping in and running some errands. I say sleeping in because at about quarter to 6 this morning Bill woke up and found that our bed had a mind of its own. We've been sleeping on the queen inflatable bed we had that we had used for camping etc. It was quite comfortable and it would easily fit in the room we're staying. Well sometime in the middle of the night it started coming apart inside. The corridors that separate the air and give the mattress support and keep it flat started coming apart. So Bill woke up with a huge "mountain" of bulberous mattress under him. It was very uncomfortable and pretty much useless.

Good thing we had got lots of use out of it previously. Needless to say, we tossed that and headed to Walmart in Simcoe as soon as it opened. We bought ourselves a new inflatable bed that would rival any "real" mattress. It has a air coil spring top on it. Very nice. Which is good cause it will be our bed for a few more months most likely.
We went to Simcoe to run some errands in the afternoon to do with our EI and besides vegging out (without power cause we lost it in the rainstorm earlier today), today has been a bit uneventful.
We are looking forward to this weekend as we have another BBQ here at Monas and Cornfest! (it's a yearly festival here in Jarvis). I'll tell you more later.

Signing off,

N