Days 5-8. Boathouses and womens shorts

Day 5 saw us leaving kingston and heading into the 1 000 islands area.
We rode the highway 2 into Gananoqua which, apart from having a cool-ass name, is also a beautiful artist town complete with huge arches announcing your arrival and departure from the township. The road quickly split off into the 1000islands parkway which had a bicycle path, separate from the road, the whole length!
Yehaw!
We had planned to stay in the 1000 islands national park but once arrived realized that the park closed earlier then we suspected. It also became apparent to us that the office was far from any actual camping and was only to be used as a day camp area.
Locals started explaining all kinds of different places to camp that seemed way too far or way too sketchy.
Tired and hungry, we were ready to just pitch our tent in a corner of the day park and make a meal until a couple offered for us to pitch a tent on their house boat!
Thanks Monique and Mike!
In the end we realized that pitching our tent in the lawn in front of their house boat was pretty much the same thing so we chose to do that instead to give both parties more space.

Day6: Got up early, packed up the tent and headed east!
We stopped in brockville for a quick breakfast where we were challenged for a bicycle hiding spot by a terrifying humongus snake!
Cleverly, Larissa shrieked a high pitch yell that seemed ideal for scaring slithery critters away and the day was saved!
hurrah!
Also important to note, Sean realized that his cycling shorts never really fit him properly and actually covered no part of his bottom. Larissa inspected them more closely and revealed to him that he had been riding in womens shorts. To avoid some pain and embarrassment Sean picked up some better fitting shamois-pants at the local bike shop. We also tried to get our bikes services but the gentlemen was rather impatient and undeserving of our patronage (also unwilling to service us!).
We ended our day camping just outside of Long Sault in a cozy corner next to the water. We also did a few extra laps around the park to ensure that we hit our 500th km before the end of day 6. Yeehaw!!!!!

day 7 was slightly less successful. Tired bodies woke late and road in to cornwall.
in cornwall we were able to get our bikes serviced freely and add a handlebar bag to Larissas bike (sap's) frame. We only road for a few more hours and made it just west of south lancaster. The campgrounds we found were pretty terrible lacking even potable water (we made due with our water purification tablets and pots for boiling and made a tasty meal!).

Day 8: Vive le quebec libre!
After a bit of confusion (and rain) that brought us through both south and north lancaster (we really had to see both!!!) we crossed the ontario quebec border by lunch time (we had an avocado/peanut butter feast to celebrate!).
We road some terrible roads with fiesty quebecer traffic into the cute town of St. Lazare where we got lost looking for the public library. Luckily, a couple asked pulled up beside us and asked us where we were going; when we asked how to get to the library they decided it was too hard to explain and instead just told us to follow behind them. They later explained that they had once done a cycle tour before and were shown much kindness from locals. Eventually, we met up with Gigi Andrieux (a friend of Seans) who showed us to her beautiful where we set up our tent to dry and put our stinking selves into the shower. Gigi and Patrick were perfect hosts and we look forward to spending time with them again! (Gigi even packed us a lunch in the standard issue brown paper bag!).

Day 9 : Road over to Vaudreil sur le lac yacht club to have lunch with stephanie andrieux and a bunch of sailor-kids. We learned the dancing bear game, the dead horse game, and that fatty broccoli soup is really unpleasant. To cross the river we took another ferry across to the town of Oka and road "la route verte" until we could ride no more in terrebonne. We found a local campground called "parc sur la riviere" and set up our tent for the night.

Thats it for now, I'm too tired to go on!
We're currently in St Catherine de la jacques cartier and will fill in the other details soon.