A family in Progress

Where has this year gone?? I can’t believe we are already into July!!

As many people are and will be celebrating Canada’s birthday with fireworks and festivities - Myles and I are at home while Gord is at work. We decided to spend our weekend camping at Bass Lake provincial park in Orillia. We we lucky enough to come home with colds!!! Blech - colds in July! So Myles and I sit here snuggled in bed, he - grossly in engaged in the Backyardigans -while i attempt to blog about our camping trip between various Kleenex moments.

We headed up to Bass Lake on Saturday mid afternoon. After going the long way - which Gord still insists would have been quicker then taking the 400 - LOL, we finally reached our destination about 5pm. We set up the tents and then headed into town to pick up enough food to get us through the weekend. Myles was SO excited to be camping that he was up until midnight Saturday listening to the rain inside our tent with Gord and I. Luckily Myles didn’t seem to notice the *odd* noises coming from the site either across or beside us. Seems this couple was really making use of the inclement weather! LOL!

Sunday morning was nice and warm. We had some breakfast and a few games of pseudo badminton. Just after lunch the clouds grew dark and the rain started again. We opted to take a trip in the car around the park and see what there was. Through the light drizzle we wandered down the beach and let Myles have some time at the playground. He didn’t seem to mind that his butt grew increasingly wet with each slide or that a nice collection of sand was gathering on the back of his legs each time he reached the end of the slide. LOL!

Once we realized the rain wasn’t going to let up for a while, we headed back to our site and played a few rounds of Yahtzee - of course we bent the rules as Myles had his own way of playing. Which included taking over the turns of Gord and myself. By dinner time things had cleared and we were able to get a campfire going. We roasted some marshmallows and hung out by the fire. Myles entertained us with a few squeaks from his harshmonica (we would call is a harmonica).

Despite the crappy weather, treks the bathroom and coming home sick - I can honestly say it was a wonderful weekend. These short get aways - that force us away from the TV, laptops, and the stresses of daily life are just what we need to rediscover what a super family unit we have and how nice it is to just spend leisure time together.

Only three weeks until our next camping trip - but shhhhhh - don’t tell Gord, it’s his birthday surprise!

Gord cooking breakfast

Gord and Myles cooking some Marshmellows

The start of the sunset

Campfire

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