Colingwood cont.

We found the rental house pretty quickly and I became instant pals with the owner Sophie!! The house was fantastic with a view over the bay which was to die for. The weather was pretty cold and rainy but we didn't care. We spent the week shopping, exploring the area, eating out and curled up in front of the fire waching dvd's! Me and the girls greed that Collingwood so felt like home. So much so that we were gutted when the week finally ended and we had to head home.

Collingwood!

I'm extremely impressed with whoever came up with the design of Airport road.......it's the straightest road ever and stretches to the horizon which in Canada is for miles. But it is also a bit like a rollercoaster with sudden drops and turns........brilliant!!
It took us a good hour and a half to reach Stayner, a small town just before Collingwood but which hiad what we were now desperate for...Tim Hortens. By now it was around 5pm but of course our internal clocks were 5 hours ahead on UK time. It had been a long day since setting off in torrential rain to the airport near our home, then the 7 hour flight and the drive so we were hungry. I'd already decided on soup and hot chocolate to take to the house and have there so we were soon back on the road and entering Collingwood.
It is a great little town right on the edge of the Georgian Bay...well actually I think its on the Nottawasaga Bay which I've no doubt spelt wrong!!

Airport road to Collingwood

Once the littlest one was strapped in the back of the car plugged into the dvd player and the eldest one was sat in the passenger seat as navigator complete with GPS we were ready to go! It was pretty easy leaving the airport simply following the signs until the T junction came up: Airport road east or west?! My internal sat nav was looking for airport road north and although I knew east would take me into Toronto, west could me the QEW and that for me was a big no no!! So to be on the safe side I decided to pull into a garage/petrol station and asked the first man I could see. In the past I've found the 'dumb woman' routine often works best. When my car needs a service I always act in awe of the mechanics' skills and tell him how useless I am with engines but then let him know that if he were to suffer a cardiac arrest at this point he'd be grateful I was standing beside him as I could pretty much save his life thanks to my Coronary care experience.....
So off we set again on Airport road west. Traffic was pretty heavy so it was a slow crawl. I actually had no idea if Airport road was a highway, freeway or dirt track so I sat in the middle lane sandwiched between 2 trucks. The GPS system is my hubby's and comes complete with a voice that can melt a mans at twenty paces so I naturally refer to it as 'her' and with much contempt. Being a female GPS she retaliates by sending me off in any direction she likes, even up private driveways. On this particular trip she was in a huff at being separated from my hubby and was refusing to even find the nearest satellite!!! A few miles down the road and almost all the traffic disappeared leaving us on a 2 lane road in the middle of the countryside. You could see for miles and miles and yet there were houses at regular intervals. I had a little wobbly moment when I realised we were in the middle of rural Ontario miles from anywhere but it soon passed. You could see the road stretching ahead for miles and miles.






Airport Road in the Fall!!








As it was October time the colour of the trees were amazing as we drove along and we passed pumpkins on display everywhere....plenty of oohs and aaahs from the girls and me!!!