Tues Aug 23: New Friends and a Decision

Rick speaking:

So my bone is healing, but very slowly….so frustrating.  Melanie, in a helpful\not irritating AT ALL way keeps reminding me to be careful.  I do so enjoy it when she tells me not to do something….

Our new friends, Robert and Claudette, who live on a boat in the marina, offered to lend us their car so we had transportation. 

Robert and Claudette

After a leisurely morning trying not to move (upon orders of Melanie MD), we took the car and drove over to St.-Anne-de-Bellevue to check it out and have lunch. (Wonderfully provided by the Murphy family -thanks so much to you guys!).     Robert and Claudette had mentioned a few “must see” locals in St. Anne and we hit them all.  Actually there is a very interesting, historic department store that still has the 1930’s era pulley based cash collection system hanging from the ceiling . It looks like an erector set that was hung from the ceiling so the salespeople could clip on the cash and it would get transported to the central office.  

 

Today it is a quaint and beautifully outfitted store, selling overpriced everything and trying to survive.  

Lunch was a wonderful spinach salad and thin crust pizza at Violet Angel!  One of the best lunches we’ve had in some time…

Violet Angel lunch - very nice

After lunch we hit the the small local grocery story to stock up on provisions.  We’ve decided to leave the marina tomorrow to try to get back on track.  I’m slowly healing, and Melanie is capable of the work anyway, so we should be able to motor carefully forward on our next leg of the trip. We will cruise to Ottawa, the capital of Canada (see - this is an educational blog) and then follow the Rideau canal back to Lake Ontario  and then Winter Harbor, outside Syracuse, to leave the boat again for the winter. 

Mel here - one of us is a Bad Bouy for not taking care of his bone... 😡