Doggy days in P'boro then to Collingwood 23-25th Aug

We spent a couple of days doing nothing but walking dogs, having home cooked food and generally catching up on sleep! We found a couple of great parks in and around Peterborough, went to see a film (Shorts) about a magic wishing stone .. good fun; went on a search across the town for more medicine for Stormy who takes a liquid glucosamine medicine for his sore joints. Finally early on Tuesday we set off for the Blue Mountains. We stopped of in a park in Orillia for boiled eggs and carrots. There was a small beach by the lake and we spent about an hour making a waterway for the water from the beach shower to get down to the lake water's edge. Since Tris had such fun on the beach we decided, once we had found a motel in Collingwood; to go down to Wassaga beach. Tris and Celso went for a swim in Lake Huron. Close to shore the lake bed is really slimey because the sand is so fine, and the waves mean that the water is full of sand all the time, but further out the water gets really clear but the bottom is still slimey. The sun shone, the wind was blowing so that it wasn't too hot and we had a grand afternoon.
Later we went to a steak house and were fed obscene amounts of food. Tristan started with snails in garlic (see photo), followed by the biggest child's meal I have ever seen, a huge pork chop (enough for 3 people), chips (enough for at least 2), and a help yourself salad. Celso and I both had the special, soup, salad, the biggest steaks you have ever seen, pie and tea. Most of mine went into a doggy bag. It's rediculous the amount they give you... but Celso was in heaven!