Boblo Island, ON August 13, 2016

The first thing I did in preparing this post was to make sure I am posting it to this year's blog. Check! This will be one of the final posts of this voyage. Kerry just made a martini for me as I sit down to write, so life is indeed good. For dinner we plan to enjoy a nice bottle of Cabernet that the Simpsons gave us before we left on our cruise. I had planned to grill the Italian sausage we have, but it might be cooked inside instead. We will have freshly baked bread to go with it. Yum!

It's a dark and stormy late afternoon. There is a severe thunderstorm warning that just went into effect. Actually there has been a high probability of thunderstorms since yesterday, but so far none have hit us. All of this muck is supposed to be gone in the morning. I sure hope it is as we plan to motor back to Vermilion. It would be difficult for us to leave the dock safely with the strong wind blowing as it is now.

We have had a very nice laid back day. Kerry slept in. I perked a pot of coffee and sat on the upper deck watching two fisherman having great success, and a freighter or two go by.

Once Kerry was up I shared her pot of tea as she joined me upstairs. I spent a large part of the afternoon up there too, smoking a cigar and starting a new James Patterson Alex Cross mystery novel. It was rather pretty and pleasant. The sky was heavily overcast. While the temperature was warm, it was very comfortable because of the strong breeze. In the picture below, you can see the conditions. Lake Erie is at the open end of the channel.

Shopping is good at Boblo. Actually, shopping is a ferry ride across the Livingston upbound ship channel in Amherstburg. There is a Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire and Dollar Tree stores withing two blocks of the ferry terminal. We spent a couple of hours in the middle of the day touring the stores. Kerry bought a bunch of clearance kiddy items she hopes to sell in the VYC Ship's Store.

Wow, it is really thundering and raining now. Our kayak is on our upper deck and probably filling with water. Well, it can't sink, can it?

The weather broke long enough for me to grill the sausages. They were delicious. Kerry made a tomato, onion and cucumber summer salad, and with the hot bread just out of the oven, we had a great "last supper". Thanks again to the Simpsons for their excellent wine gift.

Kerry spent a lot of time today on the computer starting to recreate her military memoirs. I am proud of her and her stick-to-it-ness. Rosemary is going to pick us up tomorrow afternoon at VYC. I offered her a thank you dinner at Rudy's, but she will take a rain check as she wants to get home early on a work day eve. I think it is a 62 mile trip home tomorrow. It will be good to be home, but a little bittersweet as our wonderful trip will be over. The good news though, Kerry is looking forward to another trip north next year. When we left on this trip, she said we were staying home next year. Maybe she just enjoys being a Princess!