Holy Smack... I'm Back

We had an excellent time... through and through. A much needed break... a much needed time away, that's what this last week was. Too bad unpacking from camping trips sucks so badly. I still have a day of work to do to get the camper back to normal and nice and clean. But I'm not worrying about that right now because I'm here writing this.  So here are the pictures from a short vacation.....

We weren't at the campground half an hour before we all got wet... we all love swimming and the water was lovely though some said it was cold but it wasn't really...

Daughter #2 with a pooch on her boogie board.

Oops I forgot to remove my glasses and scarf.

Ahhh! That's better. Now I can really relax.

 Even the dogs got in on the action.....

Narmin after his first ever swim... I'm not sure he liked it!

And I know Jiggs had issues with the water.

Then while some of us were shivering...

Some of us decided to snooze....

Teapot passed out for a snooze through the screen of the tent trailer.

Yes that's a cat you see.... well we couldn't leave her home with no one to take care of her.... : (

Now that's one passed out pooch.

After a while we felt that maybe we should get some supper.... so we cooked up shish kabobs....

Om nom nom.... they were delicious....

And while they were cooking the Daughters got out their books and read by the water watching the suns rays lowering....

After eating we all decided to go for a paddle but Daughter #2 wanted to stay back and light a fire so while Teapot and I cleaned up Daughter #1 got into the kayak and headed across the lake for a short paddle...

After cleaning up Teapot and I boarded the canoe and off we went for a by-now moonlight paddle...

It was truly a lovely evening but as usual Teapot caught me in a goofy pose....

I wonder if anyone could ever take a nice picture of me.... (sigh)!

Daughter #1 obviously enjoyed her evening paddle...

Clearly it was getting too dark to see so we headed back to camp sadly....

I did manage to get this cool picture though on the way back....

Since lily pads were all over the place we thought we might find a frog or two and we did have a look....

But we never found one.... later one found us though... the last night we were there we had turned  the canoes over to keep the wooded cross beam from being chewed on by the local beavers, the next morning we discovered that a cool toad had found his way into the space under the bow gunnel.  He would have had quite the ride had we not seen him and loaded the canoes for the 25 kilometre ride home.... he would have surely had flapping lips in the 90 kilometre wind on the way home. But we found him in time and put him back in the reeds as you see in the picture above.

Meanwhile Daughter #1 was waiting with the fire going....

We had some hot chocolate... but with all that fresh air I think we were starting to get loopy....

That's my loopy look.

So we went to bed and listened to loons... and coyotes.... and the next morning we were visited by swans... ducks.... beavers.... and eagles.....

And caterpillars....

This was the view when we got up...

It was so beautiful we headed off for another paddle.... and we portaged around a beaver damn so that we could see these views...

That was just the first 24 hours... and so our week continued in like manner. It was truly an idyllic trip.

I think we're going again next week when Teapot and Daughter #1 get back from a white water rafting trip.  I can't wait!