fifth day of vacation, and the house swap fiasco

soooo, Friday was the last official day of my holiday, not including the weekend. I spent the morning packing for a weekend away with some girlfriends, and was picked up by Amelia and Michelle around 11:30am. We had planned a house swap which basically means that Amelia offered up her house for the weekend, in exchange for a small house up north, near a town called Kinmount. So we drove about 2.5 hours northeast of Toronto and arrived at our new "home" about mid afternoon. We met the owner, who greeted us hesitantly and indicated she had emailled Amelia that morning to cancel. Uhhhh, ok, well....Amelia explained that she hadn't received the email, and well, here we are, and two more are on their way. The owner tried to be gracious, but she made it clear that she was unable to go to Toronto for the weekend, but she indicated she did have another place to stay so she was in the midst of packing up her car with things she needed for the weekend. She told us not to use the phone, computer or woodburning stove. She indicated there would be a real estate showing the next day at 1pm. She asked us not to tell the real estate agent if we notice anything not working in the house. Hmmmm. We were starting to wonder where this was all going. She packed up her car while we took the canoe down to the nearby river, and then went for groceries. We came home to a note that basically said, sorry, but you can only stay for one night. This, after lots of drama getting 5 bikes onto 2 cars and coordinating 5 crazy women's schedules. Sigh. Needless to say we were annoyed and disappointed. The worst part is that she popped back in awhile later and non-chalantly asked if we'd seen her note. Uhh, yes, we saw it, thanks..........ARGHHHHHHHHH!!

Anyway, suffice it to say that Amelia rocks because she managed to work some family connections and found us a way better cabin on a lake about 30 minutes away that was available on the Saturday night. So we stayed in crazy lady's house Friday night but packed up and moved out first thing Saturday morning. We ended up really enjoying our stay on Boshkung Lake instead. An adventurous end to my holiday!!