Vacation with the Girls

This is one of the first summers in a very long time that I've taken a week vacation each month throughout the summer. The first week was to move into my new house. The second, which was 2 weeks ago I took my boyfriend's daughter camping along with a highschool friend and her 2 daughters. We had a great time camping and enjoying the outdoors.

Amazingly enough we managed not to get rained on during this incredibly wet summer here in Ontario. We got set up during what looked to be a really bad downpour. Instead it rained in the towns all around us. Then we packed up just in time before it rained to drive home.


We took a hike and found baby toads, salamanders, and really stunning dragon flies. There were beautiful mushrooms everywhere as well. We spent hours and hours at the beach swimming. It was everything we could do to get the kids out of the water.



We had such a great time we plan to do it again, but can't wait to give the kids the experience of backpacking and canoeing up into Algonquin. I haven't done that in years and really want to once again. I'm not as young as I once was, but I'm willing to go.