Yesterday Matthew had a pine cone fall on his head. It was super funny as the squirrel that dropped it seemed to think so too. He tried return the favour, but with no success. Eventually giving up, he played games with Daniel and Evelyn instead. With bows and arrows and buffalo. Sounded like fun!
Last burn of garbage -- who wants to carry that stuff!
Things getting tidied up slowly.
Time to hit the "road". Hit the lake? All packed and ready to go!
A beautiful day to be traveling, but we've been here before. Just traveling back to our old site on St. Andrews.
Well, our old site was actually full, so we had to take what we could get. We snatched one that still had flat spots for our tents. The swimming hole was okay, if you kept moving and didn't stand in the weeds where the bloodsuckers were.
We are very close to a very noisy site (they even put a radio on for a bit. A radio in the back country? Seriously???) There loud laughter gets tiring after a while. (Yes, now I know what people think when we pick a site next to them. :p) I seem to recall where the old waterslide was, so we decide, once the tents are up, to take a jaunt over there.
Yay! We found it! The kids have a hoot on it. And it's even quiet when we get there. Just three guys, a grandpa and two grandsons.
There is a rope on the far end to pull yourself out by. Jennifer doesn't realize that this will be her last moment with her baseball cap. We never find it later...must have gone downstream!
I was crabby and made everybody pack up after less than an hour. More people are showing up anyways. The thunderclouds I'd seen over the water as we arrived are much much closer now. As we paddle away we see droves of people paddling to the waterslide to try it out. (Don't they see those thunderclouds?) We hoof it back to our site (my, it was a lot of paddling to get back! We make it time, set up the tarps and hunker down for a bit downpour. What a tonne of water coming down all at once! I'm glad we are back at our site eating dinner (even if we're still getting splashed a fair bit from all the downpour. It's dark, so we head to bed early once the rain is done. We stayed pretty dry, and we're thankful for that!
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