The Kids Are Coming!

 

In planning for Leigh, Brooks, and grandson Ev's arrival here in Barrie this summer, we decided to let them have the Flying Scotsman and we moved us seniors over to a B & B about a mile from the KOA. We have driven by this place many times over the last several years and admired the house and horse property. It was about $100CDN a night or about $80 US ... not bad considering the cabin we had put the kids up in years prior was $200CDN a night.

 

This is the Hackney Horse Bed and Breakfast owned by Henne and Frank who are avid horse lovers.

 

 

The 140 acre property is gorgeous and there are 15 carriage horses on the place. We got a queen bed room with bath on the lower floor at the front, just to the right of the porch in the photo above. The fixtures and finishings are quite new and all inspired by European design and function and has central heat and air. Every morning you are greeted with Henne and her special crepes including all the fruit, sugar, yoghurt, and any other toppings you could ever want; if you want eggs she's cooking what you want!

Below is a shot of one of the horse pastures to the rear of the place, looking from the patio, and Henne has put in a full time effort to keep the flowers this beautiful.

Coming out of our bedroom and looking out the front door we were greeted every morning with this view of the beautiful horses grazing in one of the front pastures.

We got into the B & B the night before the kid's arrival, to get our stuff out of the RV and over to the new place, get the cat to his hotel for the night, then allow us the next day on the 23rd of July to go to Toronto and pick them up and get them over to the RV to settle in for the next week of fun and touring central Ontario.