ONTARIO!!!!! Here we are in one of the most beautiful places we've seen yet. It's been a while since our last post, so we have a lot to share. Manitoba was great and we stayed with awesome people. The wind in Manitoba was really strong, it was really hard to bike in. For about a week, the south south- east wind was about 45km an hour, sometimes reaching 70-75 km. Although the weather was not on our side we kept our spirits up. We finally reached Winnipeg last Tuesday and stayed at Charlie and Ruth Levasseur the first night. After a trip to the worst bike shop in the world the next day, we stayed at Janie, Tim and Holly's. They were unbelievably generous, kind, letting us stay for three nights. Janie was nice enough to donate the food in her fridge into our bellies. But we think she soon regreted that decision when she realized she was hosting two gorillas... We were really excited to go but perhaps jumped the gun a little bit and ended up leaving in one of the worst thunderstorms of the year. By 7pm that night we were caught in the thunderstorm with no place to stay. Raindrops the size of a marble were falling on our heads. With a tornado warning and the roads closed ahead of us we were forced to stay in a motel, owned by a witch. She really took advantage of our situation. Things are better now. the weather is good, we are roasting again and we see some incredible wildlife. So far we've seen coyotes, fox, deer, bald eagles, a wolf, a painted turtle, a snake and I (Annie) got to see A BEAR!!!! Last night was spent under a bridge in Sioux Narrows, it was a really nice place, right by the Lake of the woods. It is amazingly beautiful. We met a local and she said they were drinking right from the lake. We kind of had company for a part of the night because across the chanel was a karaoke bar that went late into the night giving us all the godamn hits.. Today, we biked 45 km and are staying at a fishing and hunting lodge near Minnesota. All day, Peter was really anxious to jump from something really high into water, Annie deciding the bridge was too STUPID the water level being lower than usual. Annie forced Peter to keep biking. But then, some rocks caught his eye on a nearby lake. We skinny dipped across the lake and scoped out the possible jumping spots. Even though the water was less than 3 feet deep, Peter jumped head first from a 15 meters. Just kidding!!! He did however had a good and safe time. We are planing to take a break day tomorrow because of the risks of thunder showers.. That's it for now!!! Hope you are all doing well.
Annie and P e t e r
merry christmas
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