Ann and David took a several-day trip to get there, but Terry and I decided to drive it in a day in our campervan. It was a VERY LONG day! Our camping spot was on Cyprus Lake, just a short walk inland from Lake Huron.
From our camping spot, we would take a short hike to the Grotto -
A short drive to the visitor's center -
Or a short drive into the cute town of Tobermory -
One day, we took the ferry to Flowerpot Island and saw some shipwrecks from our glass bottom boat:
We spent about half a day walking around Flower Pot Island -
Terry and I also took a hike along the Bruce Trail which goes all the way to Niagara Falls -
And all of us took a sunset hike on the western side of the Peninsula (most of the interesting topography is on the eastern side) -
We also had time to play Canasta* -
I thought it was quite a fun trip! Terry said it was way too far to drive! We did have mostly great weather. Most of the fall leaves were on the drive up to the peninsula and not on the peninsula itself, where there were mostly evergreens.
*I must share a story about one of our games while it is still on my mind. I want to remember this years from now. Ann and I have been playing this game since childhood, but in this game we made back-to-back unbelievably bad moves. Followed by a little gift from God.
Here's how it happened. I was one card away from a natural canasta. Ann discarded that card to me (big mistake), I didn't pick it up (even bigger mistake), and then the play went to David and Terry. Ann picked up the deck on Terry's discard and got her card back. I commented how we all knew that there was one more card like that still in play. It was obvious that the guys didn't have it. I said out loud that I wasn't going to pray for God to let me draw that card, but if He just wanted to show me how much He loved me, that would be great. I then proceeded to draw that very card! We were all a bit stunned. All I could say was "He loves me. Wow! I knew it, but it seems He just wanted to tell me."
