Saying hi to the Sheepwash's and saying good bye to Grandma.

The end of our Ontario visit

We had such a great time visiting with family and friends in Ontario.  On Thursday, we ordered pizza and spent our last night in Essex visiting with Grandma and Skyping Mom in BC.  On Friday we packed up our things and had a short visit with some old friends of my parents, who had driven in to see us.  We left Grandma's around 1 pm and headed to the Dairy Freez just outside of town to meet my friend Kim and her kids for lunch.  We soooo look forward to a trip to the Freez whenever we get to Essex!  We ordered our lunch and when she brought it to us, she announced that their power had gone out and that we couldn't get any of our milkshakes or Boston Coolers!  UGH!!!! That also meant no ice cream desserts!!!!! We ate our lunch hoping that the power would come back on before we had to leave, but it didn't happen. :(

We said good bye to Kim and set out on the road to Acton, Ontario (near Toronto) to visit our dear friends, the Sheepwashs, who had just moved to Acton from BC.  We miss them terribly!  We arrived at their house around 9pm and was warmly greeted with hugs and lasagna!  We had so much fun with them.  The bigger children walked to the local pool for a swim while the little guys stayed at the house and enjoyed the slip and slide.  That night we made s'mores around a campfire in their backyard.  Nathan missed out on the roasted marshmellows because he fell asleep in his lawn chair....so cute.

We left Sunday morning, well 1pm....morning for the James :) and are now in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec.  We rolled in late (around 11:00 pm), ate a quite supper and went to sleep.  We are now all having showers and packing up to leave.  We hope to get at least half way through New Brunswick today.

Good bye for now... miss you all.  Talk to you soon.

Pics from Essex

Back in Canada - Essex, Ontario

We arrived back in Canada through the Port Huron/Sarnia border crossing on July 1 - very patriotic of us to return home on our nations birthday!  We pulled into Grandma's house in Essex around 10:30 pm and got Grandma out of bed where she was talking on the phone with my mother, so mom found out that we arrived safe and sound.

We have been here a couple of days and have enjoyed visiting with Grandma, Uncle John and Aunt Aileen and my childhood friend, Kim and her family.  As a matter of fact, we have just returned from Kim's house now (quite late) as we tend to talk and talk!  She made us a very yummy lasagne.  I wanted to eat more, but was too full.

The weather is hot and humid, as usual, but not as bad as last time we were here.  We brought them some rain from BC, which, unlike British Columbians, they really appreciated.  I guess it hadn't rained here for a long time....until we arrive of course!  We had thunder and lightning all day today, but we didn't have any RV leaks!!! yeah!

Tomorrow, Grandma and Grandpa Wuerch are coming out from Windsor for a visit and then we are off to Uncle John and Aunt Aileen's house for supper.  Hopefully Amber will be able to make it in from Windsor for supper too.

Well, should go to bed...it is 2:37 am....another early night! :)

From BC to Minnesota

Hopefully I can get this blog posted!!!! We have been having some technical difficulties.  Yes, we left on Friday and yes, late.  The first time we left it was 12:30 pm.  We got as far as Mt. Lehman and realized that we had forgotten the privacy cover for the front window of the RV, so back we went.  We left the second time at 2:30pm.  The Neufelds were gracious and waited supper for us.  We had such a wonderful visit with the Neufelds.  The teens entertained us with music - Ben played the fiddle, Matt played the guitar, Sarah played the piano and Zach played the accordian.  This was his first time playing an accordian and with a little practice, he caught on to it quite well.  The children swam in the rain, but didn't seem to mind.

On Sunday, we all (including the Neufelds) headed to historic O'Keefe Ranch near Vernon, BC.  That was so much fun and we didn't want to say good bye, but we parted ways around supper time.  We pulled into Osoyoos and had a lovely gourmet dinner of bbq'd hotdogs. :)

On Monday, we headed to Oroville and crossed the border into Washington.  We stopped at the Grand Coulee Dam and enjoyed the sights and some lunch.

We drove through Gracier National Park and stopped for some huckleberry pie and icecream in a little place called Hungry Horse, Montana.

Montana is a very windy place!  We camped in Cut Bank, Montana and the RV was rocking all night long!

Tonight we are in a KOA campground near Duluth, Minnesota.

I've discovered that it takes a long time for pics to upload on this blog, so most of our pics will be on facebook.

Well, gotta go the kids are back from the pool and I can't hear myself think anymore....my peace and quiet time is over....hopefully blog at you soon.

As you can see from the pic above, the children are counting down the days until we leave. This is the white board in the diningroom.  What....a white board in the diningroom???? Yep that's right...we homeschool...no Martha Stewart here! 

As the white board indicates, tomorrow is the big day.  We hope to be done everything and pulling out around 11am.  We told the Neufelds we would be at their house (in Salmon Arm) for supper.  Thankfully, the Neufelds have known us long enough to know to make supper late, as the James's are always late....we run on Dave time!

As the Neufelds only have dial-up service, I probably won't post anything new until we have gotten to the States...hopefully Sunday....but remember, we are always late! :)

Please pray for us for safe travels.  Take care and God bless.

The James Gang Rides Again!!!

Well, we are doing it again....that's right....the James Gang are heading out on another cross-country RV adventure!!!!  We are planning on going through the US for much of our trip this time for a change of scenery and to hopefully save some money in gas. We invite you to follow along with us.  We won't be doing as much sightseeing this time as our goal is to get to Nova Scotia as fast as possible to be able to look at as many properties as we can before we have to head back to BC.  That's right...we are thinking about buying a home and moving to Nova Scotia.  Stay tuned......the adventure starts Friday.