Day 4 - TCH Dryden, Ontario

The restaurant where we ate lunch - a "self service" restaurant. Like a scene from the Twilight Zone. No lie.
Blanket time in Ignace, Ont. Who's watching the baby? What baby?
Read this sign. Arguably the coolest thing we've seen so far.
Don't know if they are called "Totem Poles" here -- but this was neat (from 1976, but still)
Another of the "Rock figures" mentioned in yesterday's post. I hiked a cliff for this pic.
The higher (but better built) statue above the one pictured more closely. RKZ honked to tell me to climb down before I could get up there.
The gas station mural. Love it.
There are "Moose on the loose" signs everywhere along TCH. We've yet to see an actual Moose.
Don't know what this is. Think it's cool, though. And it's a big statue-thing.

It is with shame in my heart and head in my hands that I admit that we have now gone to WalMart every day of this trip. I promise that it was never planned. There just seem to be WalMarts everywhere, particularly when we need to buy whole milk. Normally, I would begin a treatise on the homogenization of the world here...but instead I would like to discuss the fact that nobody (big on the bold today) sells whole milk anymore! Babies are not supposed to drink 2% milk, so finding 3.25% milk has become a sub-quest on this journey. RKZ is going crazy. He has decided that Buck is "fat enough" & will not miss the 1.25% extra fat. I have tried to explain that we would be stealing fat from Buck's brain tissue, but RKZ is not convinced.

Regardless - this is all smoke & mirrors to avoid the fact that we are (here it comes) still in Ontario. We drove 430 miles today (about 8 hours is Buck's limit) - 1100 in total. We are offically 1/2 way to Calgary, yet still in Ontario. Go figure.

We are now in Dryden, Ontario. It's a lovely town ("The best little town in Canada" according to the sign). RKZ has decided that it's the Reno of Canada :) At least we found an indoor pool tonight. The boys spent a good while swimming. We mourned the fact that the beer store is closed (can only buy beer at the official beer store in Ontario). It closed at six pm. We just missed it.

I'm going to let the pictures above tell our story. Hope they are entertaining. I promised real pictures this time!

Lastly, please pray for the Joads and Gma J who is being transported to Reno over the next few days. Her hip is not fully recovered -- but it seems that she is feeling well enough to make the trip from Newport, California to Reno, Nevada in a motorhome. I don't know which of our trips will be more difficult!