Parts, apples, and the lake

We moved down to Darlington Provincial Park today... more on that in a bit.

We had ordered parts when we stopped by the RV place in Belleville on Friday, and they were due to arrive today. We called and the parts had come in, so we decided to drive out there today so we would have time tomorrow to deal with any problems that might come up. Before heading out there, we thought to measure the length that the "stinger" of the hitch extender would need to have to fit into our receiver and get to the hitch pin holes - that was 5".

We drove to Belleville (a bit over 1.5 hour drive in the Jeep). They had all the parts, but the "stinger" on the hitch extender was nowhere near 5" - it was more like 2.5-3". At least we knew it wouldn't work before we purchased it and got it to the bus, which would have required a trip back out there to return it. Bummer... now we have to explore other options on how we can raise the hitch receiver.

On our way out to Belleville, we saw "The Big Apple", so we decided to stop there on the way back.

Just as we entered the parking lot, we noticed various animal warning signs - I've never seen a Rabbit warning sign on the highways, but I guess this was specially provided for their location!

These are more like the signs we've seen as we've been driving on the highways in Canada.

As we entered the building, there was a signpost with distances to places all over the world!

They have sold over 5 million pies and bread!

The apple cider room

I thought this chocolate sheep with 3 little lambs was awfully cute!

We bought apple dumplings, apple pie, and cookies - yum!

Now, back to Darlington Provincial Park. Since we decided to go up to "cottage country" for the weekend, there were a lot more sites available for check-in on Monday -

So we were able to get one right on Lake Ontario - Miss Doozie is facing south looking across the lake. The site is set up for us to back into it, but then we couldn't see out the back of Miss Doozie, so we're in the site backwards... it just means we had to run the power cord under the bus - and for that view, it was definitely worth it!

We're looking forward to a relaxing day tomorrow (well, doing research on what we might be able to do with the hitch receiver), and then meeting up with friends on Wednesday!