July 16, 2010 On our way back on the Lucy III, Hastings, Ontario

Marc- Having said our goodbyes to Jay and Joan on Windsong, we explored some sites in Midland, Ontario on our way back to Hastings by car. We had a beautiful fall day with plenty of sunshine and a warm temperatures of about 80 degrees. Midland is famous for having many murals including the largest mural in North America (80 feet high by 250 feet wide) painted on several connected silo's which dominate the harbor as we enter. Midland is known for the more than 30 murals painted on buildings all over town. Midland s also famous for Curling. It is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area.

We later visited the Martyrs' Church and "Sainte-Marie among the Hurons" which was founded by French Jesuits as a mission settlement in 1639 in the land of the Wendat or Huron people. The mission of the Jesuits was to teach Christianity to the world. The mission was a large fortified settlement and by 1648 was home to one-fifth of all the French in the new world. The Church appears on the inside like an inverted canoe in reference to and in honor of the early explorers and local peoples. The Church also contains some extraordinary stained glass also honoring the native peoples.

Our name is common up here.


Marc- We now have a new Engine installed care of Stevenson's Marine. I did complete some of the wiring and cleaned up after the mechanics but they did an incredible job overall and for the amount quoted. We spent our first night back on the boat at the Hastings Village Marina. Another heat wave is upon us and we all missed the air conditioning that we enjoyed on Windsong. We also miss Jay, Joan, and their three chocolate Labradors: Rosey, Marley and Molly.
The next two days would get us to Frankford and then to the picturesque village of Picton. Marie Bedard joined us at Trenton and then toured around the island of Prince Edward County. They really enjoyed the Sand Dunes as well as the beautiful water. The Picton Inn is just what the doctor ordered for us. We managed to cool off by putting four blocks of ice in the sink and then we put a fan behind it. It worked surprisingly well even if Steffie refers to this as a medieval method.