All packed up and ready to go!
We left Ottawa just after noon on Sunday, July 29th. The girls settled into their books within a few minutes of the drive. “We’ve driven this way so many times, I’ll stop readin after Pembroke” Yeah, right!!
We made a stop in Mattawa, home of large statues, there are wood carved statues all along Main Street. We happened upon a boat show as we walked towards the river so we spent about 15 minutes watching a guy on a FLY Board. It was cool! On our way out we happened upon a HUGE voyageur statue carved out of wood
We made it to Sudbury!! First stop the BIG NICKEL!!!
The Big Nickel is about 64 million times the size of a regular nickel.
It is an interesting story. In 1963, there was contest asking Sudbury residents for ideas on how to celebrate Canad’s centennial, in 1967. Ted Szilva entered with the ideal of the Big Nickel along with a Science Centre, his idea was rejected, but he perused his dream and made it happen!
We had a nice picnic dinner on the grounds and spent the night at Canada’s Best Value Inn...enough said!!! :)
Day 2 - Sudbury to Lake Superior Prov. Park
We went to Science North in the morning and AMMA TOUCHED A SNAKE!
Other Science North highlights included:
- the Gyroscope. We were all able to try it, except Jaida, she was not tall enough. It was really fun, you get to sling in three different directions at a time, if you get going fast enough.
- we watched documentary called WILDFIRE . Very fitting considering the number of forest fires in Canada right now.
- we also spent a long time doing various physical challenges and activities to test our stretch and balance. It was fun!
Here is a family photo we took. Can you guess who is who?. We drove through the campus of Laurentian Univerrsity and University of Sudbury before leaving town.
We stoped in at Echo Bay, just East of Sault Ste. Marie, to see the big Loonie. Just past Sault Ste. Marie there was an accident on the road. An SUV hit a truck and a pickup tried to dodge it but ended up in the ditch. We were stoped for about 1.5 hours. While we were stopped we met 2 motorcyclists who started in Newfoundland and Labrador and were headed to Alaska. We ended up eating a makeshift dinner in the van on the way to our campsite.When we got to our campsite it was 10:30pm.
The drive was beautiful along Lake Superior.
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