Well I arrived after midnight to Jeff's place in Sault Ste. Marie. I ended
p hanging out and I got myself settled and ready to relax. The couch was extremely comfortable and I slept very well. I got up
around 10 AM and we hung out and then Jeff and I went to the
convenience store called crazy Ernie's. Ernie long to go
ast it's owned by an Asian family. I got some required food such as milk cereal Pepsi ice tea
nd chips. Part of my nutritious diet. Jeff tells me it cost 275 for a cash fair
n the bus here. Hell that's more expensive than SEPTA & that's saying something!! I took
glorious shower and it's beautiful weather here I mean it's a little cloudy
ut it's about 65° and not humid. When I went to the mall and decided that I would buy some clothes because I forgot to bring T
-shirts when I packed. I also needed some socks and underwear is usual. It's cool because the exchange rate is
eally good and it's Walmart so I bought a whole bunch of clothes for $52.00. I then
ent to the local casino which was in walking distance and got a good exchange
ate turn $52 into $71 Canadian so that was good. We went back to Jeff's place & hung out for a while.
e went to this funky little store that sells a little bit of everything from knives to computers
nd I bought a new wallet at this place. It's called a secondhand look. After that
e took the bus home and hung out for a bit. Just think got a hold of Flo and Flo picked
s up. We went down to harmony like we're slow got a new used trailer to spend our summers. It is a lot more sleeping space than the one I was in last year. We then went to Hayden and
drove around
nd I discovered fiddleheads that grown into the ground and treated
like
a salad. We then hung around near Hayden Lake.. It was near where I went
nowmobiling last December. I met some more people there and they're all
ery nice. I meant Jeff's father and he's living the good life in retirement.
e lives up here but he has a place in Florida that he stays in five months of the year. Everybody
there was chilling out and relaxing. Quite a different
cene in the late spring
hat it is in the middle of December. that's what I last was there. We then came back to talk for a while at Jeff's apartment
. I met one of his neighbors name Kim is also in the program. We next order chicken from crazy
rnie's convenient store. The wings were a bit dry but the drumsticks for a
very very good. Later I watched a little bit of the 2013 St. Louis Cardinals in
their season on the NFL network. I then decided it was probably time to contact my
friend and see about when I can get up to Manitoulin Island. I already checked the bus to
get to Espanola but the bus only comes once today at 10:30 at night so that's not an option. She's been at school doing overnight clinicals and doesn't have a lot of money.
Good day everybody well I got up pretty early around 830 got my stuff together met up with April
and we did a little shopping and drinking coffee at Tim Hortons. I got some T-shirts for 
heap it's a Canon it on so lease there a cheap souvenirs. I'm waiting for my ride to come at 11 o'clock. My ride 
Cathie came up pretty soon after 11 o'clock. As a goodbye to Jeff. He was really 
ospitable. When we drove for quite some time and we stopped at various cool places that she knew about from the 
revious trips to Manitoulin Island. It's a beautiful sunny day it's cool but it really feels 
ice. Rather be in this weather than 90° and humid back in Philadelphia. First stop 
as what was the first stop was at the salon we went somewhere before the salon but I don't
remember OK will have to go up. Well the sights we went to in the way of really nice and then we went 
to a Frey stand and I got fries and a chicken burger and she got a bagel sandwich and tiny fries. 
The small fry's held a lot of fries that's for sure.I have to go back to that. 
We picked up two given hitchhikers on the way they were very nice. anyhow we arrived at the place around 445. I signed up for the $40 registration fee and I'm keeping an 
eye out 
for when the Philadelphia people show up and register. When I ran into Pat and got my stuff loaded in his car. He told me he went 
o a sweat lodge. Cathie told me to same thing. 
he is going to many of them I've never been to one maybe this year maybe another year
I'll do one. It's 533 and the Friday night opening meeting is at 8 o'clock which is a good thing 
ince I'm going to nap and set up my bed etc. Eventually I'm gonna want to buy groceries and pay the rent for the
cottage.It's now 7:30 PM and wait for the rest of the folks come out and we're all going to ride up 
o the conference center for the beginning of the conference starting at 8 o'clock. Pretty nice day outside
