6 months

6 months has gone by since we left Terrace, hard to believe!

We have seen and done lots, more than we can remember at times.

We have traveled from Vancouver Island to Prince Edward Island, through the Rockies and Prairies, through the Great Canadian Shield and The Continental Divide.  We have eaten seafood in the Maritimes and watched the leaves change colour in the Adirondacks and also Quebec. We have survived a hurricane and heat waves.

We have gone through 9 Provinces and 12 States.  We have passed through the capital city of Canada and nearby the capital of the USA.  We have said hello to the Bluenose, Mickey Mouse, Terry Fox’s memorial and some dear old friends.  We have missed many friends as well and some family members too, it is hard to get everything done that we set out to do. 

We have seen the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Lake Superior, the Bay of Fundy, the Gulf of Mexico, the St Lawrence and the Thousand Islands.

We have been homesick at times and at other times cannot imagine ever going back.

We have missed our family & friends tremendously and also have made new friends on the way.

…..Kelly’s sinuses are still not better, they are actually worse that they have ever been….. Terry’s leg is still the same as it has always been; it is good for one day of walking and then out of commission the next…… Jen has now been settled in to her own place in PEI for over 4 months, it is hard to believe…..  Michael is a reading and writing machine.  He has read over 15 large books and has written  2 ½ of his own.….. Sampson is still barking at every squirrel he sees and jumps up on our bed at every scary sound he hears at night time….

It will be interesting to see what the next 6 months brings….

around Lake Rousseau

We moved to site #1 which is water front and lovely!  There are Egrets and Herons that are fairly tame that come right up on the dock.  We rented a canoe for the duration of our stay so we can get out on the water etc.  There are alligators here but at this time of the year it is too cold for them to come ashore ( 20-25 C).

Terry joined the golf club and for $25 he gets his green fees and a golf cart, pretty nice!  I went to bingo for the 1st time in many years and bingo'd twice.  Good thing I didn't bingo three times as apparently they throw you in the pool!

Mike is enjoying the space that we have and his homeschooling is going well.  He is almost 1/2 way done his school year.  He has read about 1/3 of the books that we brought with us (15 books) and has written 3 books as well.  His big dream is to be an author one day...

The people here are extremely friendly.  We have had offers for other campers to drive us into town to get out groceries etc as we don't have a vehicle other than the RV.

Shopping here is so cheap...we took advantage of the Black Friday sales online and ordered up several items that are being sent to us at the campsite.  The best deal we have seen so far is the price of beer, a 24 pack of beer for only $14.00.  A 12 pack at home is over $20!

We have decorated our site with Christmas lights and even have a tree up (a poinsetta) decorated with oranges from the tree next door around it.

here are some pictures around our campsite...

our Christmas tree 

site #1 

lots of space beside us

looking across the cove to our RV

relaxing inside 

a banana tree growing at the boat ramp

looking out to Lake Rousseau

the boat ramp

an orange tree beside us

The Spanish moss grows everywhere, it is kind of creepy neat!

looking down the cove at the Cypress trees

the tame Egret

Mike loves his pool time

a  nice November day!

Lake Rousseau, Florida

We left Fort Wilderness in Orlando on Nov 24th and drove a few hours away to our new home for the next 7 weeks, Lake Rousseau.  It is a smaller RV park, only 130 sites here.  We are in site 19 for the first 4 nights then we move to site #1 for the rest of our stay.  We went to the potluck Thanksgiving dinner this afternoon and had our 1st deep-fried turkey, it was extremely good!  Everyone here is very friendly, we have been given food by our neighbours, been invited for drinks and welcomed into this little community!  Some of the people live here full time in their RV's and some are snowbirds coming down from the northern US states or Canada for 6 months or so.

There is a heated swimming pool so Michael is very happy,  he has been practicing diving to the bottom without his mask and snorkel...so far so good!  His swimming abilities have tripled since we left home 6 months ago as he has spent a lot of time in the water at the various campsites etc....

Check out where we are

pictures around the WDW parks..

Disney!

We arrived at Disney's "Fort Wilderness campsite on Nov 12th.  We have extended our stay until Nov 24 as we love it here!  The sites are huge with palm trees and on a concrete pad!  Our feet are killing us from all the walking and poor Terry needed a wheelchair today as he couldn't move...but off to more parks tomorrow!

Michael is having a blast, swimming, the rides, driving a golf cart around the campsites,  movies in the park, etc etc...it must be great to be a kid!

Terry wasn't sure if he would like visiting "Mickey" and now he has been converted, he loves him!  He even bought himself a t-shirt with Mickey on it today!

I knew that I would love it all!!

down in the Carolina's

We left Virginia this morning and made it through North Carolina almost all the way to Columbia, South Carolina.  Highway 1 is beautiful, hardly any traffic and lots of beautiful farms etc to look at.  The weather has gone back about a month or more for us.  Quebec had no leaves on their trees to Pennsylvania having some leaves that were still orange.  Virginia had most of the leaves on the trees in fall colours and the Carolina's still have green leaves and green grass!

Cotton fields in South Carolina

 A praying Mantis!

on the road again!!!

We left Lorraine Quebec yesterday morning in the wet cold drizzle.  It was almost snowing out...
Drove to a truck stop in New York state and tried to sleep but there were so many tractor trailers in the parking lot we couldn't sleep with all the noise.  One rig parked so close to us we couldn't open our side door of the RV!!  We fled in the darkness of the evening to the "Welcome Center" in Pennsylvania...ahh..only 20 or so big rigs parked there and we had a small corner to ourselves.

Followed Interstate 81 through Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia and then followed Highway 17 to the I 95.

 Thank goodness for the Flying J truck stops....a place for RV's to park overnight (20 of us RVers here  and the big rigs are way over in their own lot),  gas, propane, a Denny's restaurant (where Michael ate for free) and free wifi for me!!