The Trek to Deep River

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Saturday Morning we picked up Duncan and Krista and headed out to Deep River to visit Shannon and Maureen. It is only 2 hours away from Ottawa but I never managed to get some time to visit them. Unfortunately I could only slot one day in as I had to work on my mid-term project, but one day is fine as it’s only a quick jaunt.

After some an amusing game of Highway Hypotheticals (in which Duncan thought that we should market this idea), we arrived to find everyone arising from their slumber. Nichelle, Adam, John and Margaret had driven up the night before from Sault Ste. Marie.

We headed down to the local watering hole and ordered some food and drink. Not bad, not bad at all! At the pub, we had some great news from a good friend. This is where the mystery sets in and it’s up to you to figure out what the heck happened as I won’t be the one to come out and say it.

The fries were delish! Then we toured the main strip of Deep River which was nice enough. Loading up on food and drinks for the evening, we headed back into the house and loaded up the boat. Shannon brought us for a tour of the river and headed out towards Chalk River where he showed us where he works. It was interesting to find out that the nuclear reactors had been around since the late 1950s. I never knew that nuclear reactors have been around for that long. Let me also point out that Shannon has a sweet view outside his office.

During the trip, Adam was trying to spray me with water so I grabbed the bailer bucket and launched it at him. However, I mis-shot and ended up getting the majority of it on Melissa’s friend Sabrina! Woops! She wasn’t too impressed but she was good natured about it. Although she did spew out some legal talk on me about misplaced malice (never do anything bad to a lawyer!)

We then retired to the homestead where we played some excelelnt games of euchre (Krista and I won 2-1 through the entire night), some bocce ball and cooked up some steaks. There was a nice campfire and fireworks to watch also and once the rain started pouring, we headed inside where Adam managed to spray Shannon with the hose so Shannon retaliated with a pitcher of water of his head. Beautiful.

I have no idea how long we stayed up playing euchre but it was good times and we passed out in Shannon’s living room for the night. We had a great time and it was good to see everyone! Deep River is a pretty nice spot to live….right on the river, lots of privacy. I think to be ideal, it would have to be the size of Kapuskasing, but that’s a minor point. Very nice spot!