Rainy day to Trevor

We woke to a gray, rainy morning.  The plan was that our next stop will be at Trevor Basin, only three hours from Llangollen.  We headed out just before 9 a.m. with the plan that Linda would jump off the boat at the office to pay for our mooring slip and then catch up with us.  It isn’t hard to catch up when you are going less than 4 miles an hour on a canal.  In fact, she beat us and was standing waiting for us to catch up with her.

Tom walked and/or ran along the tow path to relay information to the skipper on boats coming our way.  Both Kara and Linda tried to catch up with Tom in order for him to have company on his task but neither were able to catch up with him.  

Sara stayed on the back of the boat with Shelly. Sara tried her hand at piloting the boat.  We bumped into the side of the canal a couple times but she quickly got the hang of it.  The people with outside jobs got cold and wet pretty quickly.  

I made oatmeal, delivered coffee and washed the dishes.  Eventually, I joined Kara in working on sewing on merit badges to vests.

We arrived at Trevor Basin around 11:30 a.m.  We want to stop early today because we think some people will stay put at their moorings because of the rain.  We wanted to be able to find a spot early in the day.  The drive into this area was very narrow and under a low bridge.  We got the very last spot in this area.  

We locked up and headed out in search of some lunch. I loved the gate to the bridge that required us to hop over a large stone.

We ate at a little pub called the Telford Inn, named for the man who built the aqueduct that we went over the first day and will go over again tomorrow.  I tried the steak pie and couldn’t stop thinking of Sweeney Todd while I ate it.  Linda ordered a cheese sandwich thinking it would be a grilled cheese.  It was shredded cheese and “fruity pickles.”  

We are moored right beside the aqueduct and so we walked up to it so we could see what it feels like to walk on it instead of ride across it on a boat.  I found it a bit unnerving to be on it.  

Linda and I followed a trail to see if we could get a view of the bridge from the side.  We did get a glimpse of it with a narrow boat going across.

Back in the boat on a rainy afternoon, people napped, showered and sewed merit badges on vests.  It was quiet and relaxed until two elderly gentlemen came into our little cul-de-sac before they realized there was no where out in front of them.  Then they backed right into our boat with a large smack.  Sara was up and out the door in a flash.  She called out, “Boys!  Boys!”  We teased her for the rest of the afternoon.  (I have been keeping track of our favorite sentences from this trip.  This one is definitely going on my list!). 

For dinner we had wine and cheese and heated up leftover pizza.  Then we played the game Sara and Shelly brought — Qwerkle.  We did merit badges.  Linda and I had buttons we got while we were out this afternoon.  Sara’s button says “Mutineer.”  I have “Galley Slave.”  I also presented Kara with a thimble that has the aqueduct on it.  She has been sewing merit badges on many of the vests.  Linda and I jumped in to do our own but Kara has carried the yeoman’s work.  Four of us played a game of Euchre before we headed to bed.  We hope to do a full day of boating tomorrow.