cottage week

It's always more difficult for me to write about something after it has passed, or at least passed a while ago. But, all the same, wanted to blog about our cottage week. Over the years, we have been renting cottages as a getaway for the family to unwind and have some fun and forget about the rest of the world. This time we had little choice as we were lucky to even get a cell phone signal! Like everyone else, we hope for great weather and you have all these perfectly wonderful illusions of hot summer days....swimming, canoeing, playing in the sun. But again, this year, that wasn't really the case. This summer has been pretty non-existent (up until this current week anyway) and very, very wet! So we spent alot of time relaxing and enjoying the cottage views and sounds, fishing, a couple trips to the provincial park nearby, playing games, grilling and enjoying some 'refreshments'.

Aunt Toots made the trip by bus from Ottawa for the first half of the week...as always, wonderful to have her visit any time.

The park we went to was Bon Echo Provincial Park and some friends and co-workers had mentioned to me that it was well worth the visit. So, off we went...and were they ever right! What a stunning park! We all enjoyed the guided pontoon tour of the cliffs and the native pictographs. Very interesting and very pretty. The park itself really grabbed me and I have every intention of securing us a great camping spot there next year. Hoping to convince Shawn and his family to join us. The sites are close to everything, the views are awesome and the beaches are very well groomed with sandy, shallow entries. Perfect for the young ones...and us, ahem, older ones too!

Sydney and I went back a few days later to take the hike up the cliffs to the various lookout points. Again...so very worth it! It could only have been better had the sun been out.

The end of the week rolled around and it was time to head home. The timing worked out really well with it being a Fri-Fri rental so we were home to enjoy a 3 day long weekend before returning to work....and on that holiday Monday, we had Shane's 2nd birthday party...which I will talk about next post..