Titanium Owners Rally

Thursday May 26th, we headed to Kingston with our fifth wheel for the annual Titanium Owners Rally which is held at Rideau Acres Campground. This year over 40 Titanium owners were in attendance. It is always fun to see all the units set up in our rally area.

Unfortunately Mother Nature did not comply and our Thursday night welcome campfire got rained out. Rain continued into Friday, so rubber boots were the style of the day as we did the best we could to meet some of the new folks.

We got together with our good friends Doug and Sue to share dinner and a movie (Jane picked Shutter Island - not your Friday night chick flick!!)

Saturday morning we were greeted by the dulcet tones of the bagpipes – as the annual Celtic fest was being held at the campground. After three years, we have started to become accustomed to the pipes and they were more like background noise while we held our Tech Session meeting. We felt really sorry for the Celtic marching bands and performers who were tromping through the wet grass – which quickly became muddy fields. An added attraction this year was watching one of their motor coaches being extracted by a monster tow truck!

Saturday night twenty six couples went on the Kingston Dinner Boat Cruise. Forty eight of us piled onto a school bus for the ride down to the boat dock. The sun came out and was shining as we cruised the Thousand Islands area. Dinner was great and we even got to dance to the music of the on-board entertainer. A good night was had by all.

Sunday morning started with a Pancake Breakfast – which was hosted by the park in their indoor hall. No wet grass this morning!! Sunday evening is our PotLuck dinner – so we’d better bring our stretchy pants!!!!!!!!!

Titanium Back at Our Summer Campsite

Wednesday morning we slowly headed to Morry's - arriving after 1pm. As usual we ran into some forum members! Bill and Margaret showed up shortly after our arrival- so we spent a few minutes catching up on their winter adventures.

Our trailer was ready, so Paul spent a some time going over the new axle to familarize himself with the new parts. After paying the bill, we headed for Dundalk, Ontario. Our Texas neighbors John & Marg had invited us to stop, so after parking our rig in their neighbors driveway we settled in for the evening. Rick and Judy who also live there joined us for a great dinner and lots of conversation.

Next morning we all headed over to Rick's place for breakfast - and as usual, Judy spoiled us with lots of delicious food. Also got a chance to see Rick's garage where he rebuilds cars for the Phoenix auction. What a large operation. Before we left, John took time to show us his collection of vintage cars. These two guys are amazing - with their collection of vehicles.

We arrived at McGowan Lake around 7pm - and we were seriously outnumbered by the swarms of blackflies!! So we quickly backed the unit onto our lot, dropped the front landing gear and left!

Saturday afternoon was the "Welcome Seasonal Campers" wine and cheese - so we headed back to the lake to catch up with our summer friends. Unfortunately it was raining, so attendence was down. But we did have a chance to rake the leaves on our lot into piles - and hook up the power to the unit. Then we headed back home to our dry warm house.

If it ever stops raining we'll go back up to the lake to start the camping season.... LOL

Heading to Walkerton

In the three weeks since we arrived in Ottawa, we celebrated Easter with a full turkey dinner and most recently Mother's Day with a lobster feast. In between the two events, the weather has not been pleasant, so we have not missed our Titanium, nor our summer retreat at McGowan lake. I guess we've become 'warm weather' campers and were in no rush to join the 'hardy' folks who have been anxious to start camping season.

Last weekend Paul and Amy went car shopping and Amy is now the proud owner of a 2011 Honda Civic - nice car!

Today was a beautiful warm day, so after Paul had the truck's rustproofing re-applied and Jane returned from her swimming class at the OAC - we packed up and headed towards Morry's Trailers in western Ontario to retreive our trailer. It is scheduled for pickup on Wednesday so we drove to Barrie, Ontario and camped out at a Super 8.