Road Trip to Canada Day 3 continued.

April 10th, 2009

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The girls at Anita’s house told us about a little town 20 minutes north (I think) called Sombra where we could see a few little shops and maybe Summer could pick up some souvenirs. It was a beautiful drive along the St. Clair River, which was such a pretty blue that day! All along the road we drove next to the river were docks and many of them had US and Canada flags, which I thought was really neat. The US is on the other side of the St. Clair River, and you can take a ferry across. We thought about driving back to Sombra the next day and taking the ferry across to get back home, but we were afraid to because it would be detouring from the route we took to get to Canada and we didn’t want to wind up lost somewhere in who knows where-ville. As it turns out, the trip home didn’t have a good start to it anyway and we probably would have been better off to come to Sombra and take the ferry across after all. Ah, the beauty of HINDSIGHT. But that would be tomorrow’s story, so back to today…..

Here are some shots of the beautiful river. I wish the photos showed how bright blue it was.

I loved this dock with the 2 flags blowing in the wind (and MAN was it windy that day!)

This is what we called Thea’s summer home. haha

Here’s Barnacle Bill’s right across from the ferry station on the river. The girls at Anita’s had told us about this place for souvenirs. The place was stuffed full of clothing that was WAY expensive for me, but at the same time they had little trinkets for next to nothing. Summer used her “souvenir money” to buy a cute little satin-ish fabric coin pouch with a pretty floral pattern on it for $2 and a pretty shell necklace for $5 and a pretty green necklace made from a shell for $6. As far as souvenirs go, it was very reasonable.

I loved this colorful little shop called Three Sisters. There was artwork inside and it was full of handmade items.

Summer used the rest of her money to buy a lovely little handmade Indian doll in a little papoose thingie that was also handmade. She fell in love with this little doll. Her name is Kitschy, which means brave, and that’s why Summer picked her.

After an hour and a half I think we headed back to Wallaceburg and were starving so we hit this place for dinner. Crabby Joes!

We asked the waitress what’s Joe’s problem? Why is he so crabby? And if that’s not enough, they have to add “bad temper” onto the sign and on the menu. What’s up with that? But she didn’t have a good answer for us.

Let’s see…..after dinner we took a trip to the local Walmart and I picked up some fun stuff like cereal that was written in English and French on the box. And I saved the box so I can make a scrapbook out of it like Julie! Hi Julie! You have inspired me!

Then back to the hotel and in for the night. Until tomorrow, my friends…….