Wednesday October 5th
After such a highly successful and busy 4 days in Ottawa, Wednesday morning saw us return to the road with the sole focus of skating for the official last leg of the trip home to Weston.
While Mark and the team were tired from our especially jam packed Tuesday, we had to get in 45 kilometers for the day to get to Perth and remain on schedule. After driving to Stittsville where we had stopped on Monday, Mark and Cam hopped out on some fairly smooth farm roads that paralleled Highway 7, and ultimately wove their way through the outskirts of Carleton Place, then along some small cottage country lakes, and finally more farms again where we stopped for lunch.
We drove to the nearest Tim Horton’s to refuel, purchased some groceries to keep us going, and then got right back out on the road as we had a bit of a late start to the day. This time Mark and Matt hopped out, and found a nearly deserted yet perfectly smooth farm road that again paralleled Highway 7, and took us past horses, cows, a flock of sheep, and even a donkey.
It was beautiful crisp fall Ontario day, with the sun shinning throughout, and provided a great skate to get us going on our way. We reached our destination of Perth in the early evening, and left our marker for the day and called it a night.
With the arrival only 12 days away, the team, our family and friends are all getting very excited and there is a lot of preparation work to be done at night. Mark’s brother Luca has now returned home to Toronto and he is the event planner for our arrival at Weston Lions Arena at noon on Saturday October 15th. Speaking of the Courage Canada Homecoming event, if you are anywhere near the GTA come on down and help us conclude this journey right! The event will feature the team skating into the arena, a speech from Mark, live music, and a special hockey game featuring members of the Toronto Ice Owls and Les Hiboux de Montreal blind hockey teams, and much more.
Check out the event details and RSVP on facebook, see you there.
Stay tuned…
