Happy birthday to Abe. Here is one of my favorite pictures of him. He was about two years and it is SO funny. Laura told him to smile for a picture and he leaned against the wall like that.
Abe today.
Adley Went to visit the Firehouse and got a tour. Then she ate a Elmo cupcake.
We went to Canada to a resort near Maya's camp, AK-O-MAK. Saturday we drove north. We stopped at Niagara on the lake. There was a Peach festival. Music and food. We walked around. Bought the peaches and jams. Then to the town of Barrie to meet up with the G family. Maya does a triathlon with the others campers and town people.
We are staying in Barrie, Canada where the boy and girl camps are participating in a triathlon on Sunday AM. Eve went to a restaurant for dinner and the kids were eating there. The kids are staying are our hotel, not by our planning. And guess who is in the room next to us with an adjoining door. Maya. She just took her first shower in seven weeks. They wash in the lake. No electricity in the cabins or bathrooms, and she loves the camp.
Hotel in Barrie. Breakfast. Eve ate all the hard boiled eggs.. Just eating the whites. You can see the dish of yolks in front of her. There were bananas for Jack and fresh fruit cut and apples for the road. I had oatmeal with fruit in it.
Before the triathlon with Maya
Strawberry ice cream
Our stay at Woodland Echo's Resort. The place served our needs but was a little shabby. We shared two units connected. Four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Compared to how out HHI rental house is stocked, this, place was missing quite a bit. The bedspreads were bad. Only a shower liner. I bought a large bag of peaches thinking we would make a peach pie. but there was nothing to bake it in. Dim lighting. It had many activities, many homemade. The beach was great. Water activities and canoes, kayaks, jumping area, water slide. The Ernharth family were also staying there. And Laurie and John Culbertson stayed at a hotel nearby. We bought the food in Barrie. Good idea as The town , Magnetawan , was small and no large market. We cooked in the unit and on the grill outside. Had steak and chicken, baked beans, salads, roasted radishes, corn on the cob. I brought chocolate chip cookie and jack and I ate the banana cake all by ourselves.
In our two units, each had a hot tub that took up most of the room on the porch. Not all the units had them. There were ten units. The E unit had three bedrooms and a very small living room. No tub.
Our bedroom
Main room
One of three campfires.
Imagine a pay phone.
Dave and Adley in a kayak.
Taking a hike.
It was cold during our stay. 55 degree one day. And the kids still went swimming. Adley is never cold. I was wearing three layers and she would be sleeveless. The boys were running around shoeless.
Holden and Tofer E bonded. They played everything there.
Ping pong table was plywood and ball did not bounce good.
Chess
Homemade mini golf. Also a one hole area.
The bikes
Maya, Holden, Adley, Oskar, Tofer, Will in the hot tub.
Johnaus E. had his guitar and we had music.
Boys on the bouncer.
Laurie C. Swam in the lake. The temperature was 55 outside. The water was warmer. She was brave.
Our sand beach.
On the bouncer. It was cold air.
We bought giant marshmallows for the somores.
The boys out to dinner. They ordered a large appetizer of chicken wings, fried cheese, etc and ATE at all.
We bought a coconut and John was in charge of getting the milk out and cracking it.
Picking the three holes into it to pour out the coconut milk. No one liked the taste of it
Pouring the milk out.
Final campfire and we got the king do all marshmallows. Yo tried to start the fire with a flint, but it was too windy. So we used matches.
Adley is wearing her princess nightgown and no shoes. I was cold.
It was a beautiful night.
Maya and Eve going for a run the last day.
Libby and Eve
The A and G family. Adley with fingers in nose and then a nice picture.
It took 1 hour 10 minutes to go rough the Peace Gate and back into the US of A.
