It is April 23rd already.   Time keeps on going by, very quickly.   To bad the snow did not go as fast.  When I look outside most of the front lawn is still covered with snow.  This picture to the right was taken April 13th, in Emo Ontario.  From your left to right, Tony Schweitzer, Bonita Vanderveen, and of course Joyce and myself. 

 On a closer look it looks like I could still loose some weight before this trip.   No sense in carry all that up the mountain. 

We were in Emo to host a pancake breakfast.   It was very well attended, and they very generously supported us.  We were going to go on a short 40-50 kilometre ride, but they had a blizzard the night before so all the streets had a new covering of ice and snow on them, and we neglected to take along our studded snow tires.  (We actually don't have any studded snow tires, but maybe they should be on our list of things to do/get).

We had to cancel the ride. 

This picture was taken in Birds Hill Park.  I think it was on Friday April 19th.  This is the entrance to the campground, which is closed.  I am not sure why, but maybe they did not use all of the snow clearing budget, but in any case the day before they were in there with a big loader and cleared all the roads to each and every campsite in the campground.   I guess they are expecting a sold out group of hardy campers or something.





This picture was taken yesterday, April 22nd.  This is one of  the camp site roads.   He did not do a very good job on this one.  Joyce advise me that she had her first spill.  She was trying to bike in the snow and started falling, but forgot until it was too late to unclip her clipless shoes.  (I know it does not make sense, but that is what they are called.  That is one of the things we have learned already on this adventure.) Anyway she did not hurt herself, because of all the nice soft snow to land in.  When I tried that same procedure,  I was not so lucky and landed on the hard pavement.   I have not forgotten since though.  I always unclip my clipless shoes now.

We had a very nice ride yesterday in the park though.  Most of the campsite roads were cleaned a lot better then this one.   We did about 10 miles just trying each and every bay.  We also got ambitious and rode from the east gate to the west gate.  We are really starting to spread our wings.  We may even get out of the park pretty soon.   

Here Joyce is looking at the campground site map.   I think she is tired and is looking for a good spot to set up camp.   We have the pick of the whole campground.  It is still very cold out though.  Yesterday was just above 0 C., but the wind made it feel a lot colder.  My iphone quit after only one  hour, likely because it was so cold.

We will have to keep this a bit more interesting, but the weather is still the main story.  

This weekend we are going to cater the IN2013 conference, which is put on by Hope Center Ministries.  There will be about 100 to 150 people there so it should be fun.  If you would like to come, check it out online at the Hope Center Website.  Tickets are still available.  The money we will make for catering will be going to Seatosea.  

Harvey