Visiting Sault Ste Marie! (The Soo)

The Rolling Rally started on Friday and we caravaned in two groups from Port Hope to "the Soo"!  It is a pretty little town with lots of great architecture.  Across the waterway is the Sault Ste Marie town in Canada!  On the way up, one of our fellow RV'ers got to the rest stop for lunch and found they had left on the water pump and some how the kitchen faucet opened and they had a flood!  They mopped up what the could and we went on down the road.  They found a commercial carpet cleaner to come out Friday afternoon and everything looks like it will be okay!

Our new campground is on Lake Huron only a few miles from the Soo Locks and the International bridge to Canada.  Yes we really can see Canada from our doorstep!  There are 9 RV's camped here.  We have no plans on the rolling rally except where we are camping. Fifteen of us did go to the American Legion for the fish fry on Friday.  I had the White Fish broiled in a lemon pepper sauce and it was very good.

We have a good view from our campground!  We can see lots of BIG ships going by!

On Saturday we visited the Visitor Center for Sault Ste Marie.  We saw a movie which gives you a lot of the history of the town, you can view the locks from there and they have a lot of information you can read about!

Next a few of us visited an Aquatic Research Center.  One of the Seniors from the University was there and gave us a tour.  They are raising Atlantic Salmon and when they are a certain age they release them.   They are coming back to the Center and up the tube to spawn as they are supposed to event though it's not an area they are from!  They also have a web cam on the internet where you can watch the fish they have released.

In the afternoon six of us took the Soo Locks Boat Tour.  We went up into the locks which rise 21 feet to meet up with Lake Superior and then we went under the International Bridge and over to the Canadian side.  We took a look at one of their Steel Mills and then back through a different set of Locks down to Lake Huron.  We were on the boat trip about two hours.  It was a beautiful day for a boat ride!

Then six of us went to dinner at the Bay Mills Resort and Casino for a buffet.  Ted and I are used to buffets that have sooo many things to choose from, including Mexican food, Oriental foods and more.  This was very small.  You had a choice of a couple of salads, a few items on the salad bar, one veggie, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, steak, shrimp, fish and ham!  They did have a lot of pies on the dessert bar!  Ted and I stayed for a little gambling.  He came out even and I came out $21 ahead!  Yippee!

Today Ted and I decided to take it easy.  We went to the "Tower of Terror"...I mean "Tower of History"!  It was originally designed as a symbol of different religions but then was turned it into a history museum.  There is a movie to watch and then you go up 210 feet by express elevator to the top where you can see the whole area.  It was interesting!

For lunch today we went to the Westside Pier restaurant.  A little whole in the wall with really BIG hamburgers!  There are five stools inside, most just eat in their cars.  Three people from our group came for lunch there and joined us inside!  It's a good hamburger but Ted says Boll Weevil's is still the best!

Tomorrow we leave this area and will travel west to Ishpeming, Michigan!

To be continued..."Ain't Life Grand!"