206 Weber: Almost Done!

We have been working hard for over a month and the house is almost done. Below are a few before/after shots of some of the rooms that we have been working on for so long. The upstairs was the most work, we are so happy to have it finished up. We still need to do some work on the two bedrooms downstairs, but we are getting close to being completely finished!

Here are some after pics.

The Whitewater that wasn't

On the Canada Day long weekend we drove up to North Bay to go on a whitewater canoe trip on the Mattawa. We heard that there were some good rapids. We rented a whitewater canoe, and as we left the rental shop, the guy told us to make sure we didn't wrap the canoe or we would have to pay! So with that in mind, and looking forward to some wicked rapids, we headed off to Samuel de Champlain park for the night. In the morning we went to the Stepping Stones put in on Trout Lake. We paddled for most of the day along flatwater lakes/river and did a few short (but really brutal) portages. We paddled across a REALLY windy lake and then camped out for the night on a beach owned by some really friendly people that have a cottage on the lake. The next morning we continued along the river until we got to the Talon Chutes (still no whitewater!!!!!). At the Talon Chutes we had to portage since it is something like a 20 metre drop with a dam across. Pretty cool though. Alex and I did some geocaching, we swam and ate some lunch. Then we paddled some more flatwater. And then we finally hit some rapids!!! Class 1 rocks, that we could barely get the canoes over. We start thinking, is the water low or something? We continued on, here we go, Class 2 (even more rocks). Now we are starting to wonder, where is the whitewater and WHY did we bring helmets????? Anyways, Joanne cooked us awesome food for the entire trip, we all got tanned, and damn, it was a good time. Guess we will go back to the Petawawa River next year, where we can get some real rapids!

pics here