We made it to Ontario!

Welcome to Ontario
1:28pm, 24 July 2009

Yes, we made it to Ontario!  After a whirlwind trip visiting family and getting other business done (everything from paperwork to shopping to x-rays), we’ve made it at last to Ontario – a place to stand, a place to grow (as an old song says, for the uninitiated).  No doubt we’ll be growing, but we won’t be doing a lot of standing!

We’ve got another full day of travel ahead before reaching our first main destination – Cochrane (see our schedule here).  I’m looking forward seeing everyone there again – it’s been a long time.

As we go I’m finishing some updates on my Maximizing Your Short Term Mission Trip seminar, which I think should be useful to people considering short term missions (and those who have been before).  It looks like I’ll be presenting it at least three times (but if anyone else is interested while we’re in the area, let me know and I’ll see what I can do).

And although we finally have all our places to stay booked while we’re in Ontario, we’ve still got a lot of work to do to make sure we can see as many people as we can while we’re here.

Meanwhile, the trip is interesting too.  We’ve learnt where the cleanest washrooms in Canada are (in Lloydminster, SK, according to the sign and the local reputation) (and if they’re the cleanest in Canada, the country where even the dirt is clean, they must rival any in the world!).  Today east of Winnipeg we visited the washrooms that must be competing for the dirtiest, but for some reason they had no sign.

Oh, we’re also trying to teach Hannah and Nathanael more useful information about the country (then again, what can be more useful than "where’s the washroom?"), like geography and history and how to pronounce Kapuskasing and all stuff like that there.  Even saw a bear and a moose today.  And didn’t hit either.

Well, I’d better go – we still have some driving ahead of us today!  And we’re looking forward to landing in Cochrane tomorrow and enjoying our time with people there.  Tomorrow night our mad dash east is finished!