Camping Trip

Our first camping trip without Daddy. I felt so guilty when telling him of the plans, as it would normally be a little "family camping trip" for us, but of course he was very happy that the girls were having a great busy and fun-filled summer.

We spent the entire "summer" waiting for the perfect opportunity to find an extended block of time to go away for the camping trip - however, the weather was a constant downpour of rain, tornado warnings and just miserable weather. So, we had to throw caution to the wind and just go! We drove through the beautiful northern countryside and also through Durham, where a Tornado had hit just a few days before. It was interesting to see the path of destruction so clearly and up close.

Sauble Beach at Twilight.

The Beaches in Ontario are so beautiful. Unfortunately, because there are only a few months of hot summer weather, the surrounding towns are not able to be built up much with the dining and entertainment that you would find down south in the Bahamas and in other beautiful "beach places".

There were quite a lot of us on the trip - and many little kidlets running around. Iveta (my cousin's soon to be ex-wife) and Avalon under the Sauble sign at Twilight after our "mad dash" to buy tarpaulin to cover the tent in case of rain. We made it back to the campsite just in time for the first few drops of rain!

Toasted (Avalon loves them BURNED!) marshmallows were on the menu for breakfast as well!

Marshmallows also came in handy for Aunty GB to throw at Trinity!

We spent our entire days at the beach on the golden sand. The waves were great fun. There were even some die-hard surfer dudes enjoying the Lake!

Trinity, my little surfer girl.

$45.00 well spent (for the boat) - we had a great time with this poor boat! We managed to wear it out though and it left the campsite deflated from a small puncture wound.

We found this little church on the way back home and signed their guest book.

A wonderful trip with lots of adventures - racoons raiding our food at night and then fighting just outside our tent for Iveta's Czech Sausages, Korean curries at Susan & Vlad's site, running from skunks, spending 2 hrs trying to make my veggie hot dogs to then have Finnegan accidently sit on them, being harrased by the owner of the camp site, trying to explain to the local kitchen help that omelletes and toasted Westerns are actually the same thing - minus the toast, (but they still "can't serve Omelletes because it isn't on the lunch menu and it doesn't matter that you arrived during breakfast time at 10:45am and waited on their wait list until 12noon - we still won't make them"), ice cream galore, sand and surf galore, watching satellites and stars in the open sky and listening to a wailing Freya (1 yr old) all night long with her sun burn! Yes, never a dull moment!