Last Camping Trip of 2016

You'd think that all we do is camp! :)

Thanksgiving weekend has come and gone, meaning another camping trip is in the books. We have gone camping on this weekend for 14ish years now. We love this tradition and plan on keeping it for many years to come.

The weather was on the cool side but it was sunny, so no complaints. It was a weekend filled with games, campfires, biking, playing at the park, badminton, and plenty of time for good long talks with some great friends.

We hardly saw the kids as they just bounced from one park to the other one, only coming back to the site when they were hungry, so as you guessed it, we saw Lincoln more than Kez. Keziah would eat breakfast, go to the park with her friend, come back around 1 for lunch, and then at 5 we would have to go get them for supper. Boy, did they sleep well at night!

My sister and her family were there as well, so the cousins had some good times together.

My namesake and my daughter

Some good sports playing Uno with Lincoln, his favourite game. Time to teach him a different one!

Tradition is our Saturday night fire pizzas. Yummy!!!

We are so blessed, surrounded by God-fearing friends.

Notice anything missing in this picture?! Let's just say that by the end of the day, they were no longer white.....

Everyone leaves on the Thanksgiving Monday as the park closes for the season. That means long line-ups to get rid of well, waste. Thankfully this park has revamped this all and added a new dumping station to go with the other one. That means we only had to wait 25 minutes instead of over an hour!

While daddy does the dirty work, we went to the park where I could finally get some pictures of the kids, especially Keziah.

We came home and this boy must have missed his cars. He spent 1.5 hours lining them all up on the step outside.

It was such a great weekend to wrap up our camping adventures for the year. We are thankful for all that we have from God, with the most being that we get to live life knowing He is our Lord and Saviour.

Our trailer is now cleaned out and stored away, waiting patiently to be pulled up again next spring. While it is stored, we are talking about where to go next year......do you have any ideas? Do share!!

Camping Catch Up

So I guess I better finish posting about our last camping trip before we go onto our next one!! Sorry for the delay. Teaching may or may not have anything to do with it :)

So, Grundy Provincial Park. Gorgeous. Busy but gorgeous. We went from Halfway Lake, where we could walk around our campsite naked (sorry for that visual!) to Grundy Lake where if you walked around naked on your site, your whole loop and then some would see you!

Nevertheless, the amount of adventure that this park offers sure makes up for the lack of privacy. We got there later in the afternoon, set up and found some rocks to jump off to cool down. It was H.O.T. that day!

 

 

 

No camping trip would be complete without scoring some wood!

The rock formations in this part of Ontario is amazing!

 

 

 

 

On the days that were sunny (we had a tonne of rain while we were here), we spent time at the beach.

 

 

 

 

 

And then. Then we went to a spot that we remembered from 15 years ago: what's known as the Jumping Rocks. These are rocks at differing height levels where you can jump from into the lake. Lincoln and Keziah had no trouble jumping from 15 feet.

 

 

The highest one you can jump from is King Kong, about 30 feet from the lake. This time Nathan didn't take near as long as he did 15 years ago to jump from it

A few days later, we saw a side of Keziah we didn't know she had - she dared to jump from the one next to King Kong, which was about 20 feet! Who knew this about her?! She screams if an animal looks at her, but jump 20 feet off a "cliff"? Sure! No problem!!

The adventures continued here at this park, as we enjoyed the Slippery Rocks - you slide all the way into the water and then need a rope to get back out. We all enjoyed it but Lincoln would have nothing to do with it.

 

We also enjoyed some hiking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rain. Oh did we get rain this trip!! So we passed the time away playing oodles of Uno games. We also headed to Science North one day.

 Looking for fossils at Science North:

Eating a meal worm. Keziah and I let Nathan and Lincoln do this. I know. Thoughtful of us, eh? :)

 

 

 

And lastly, we spent lots of time at our campsite, doing what we love: relaxing, whether that be sleeping, reading, colouring or playing together.

 

 

 

 

It is pretty neat to go back and post pictures about this 2 months later - it reminds me of how much of a great time we had together as a family. We are so thankful to God for these weeks we had. We love doing this with the kids and are excited that they are getting to the age where they can do so much.

 

Despite the rain, the humidity, the bugs and the bears (we saw lots of bears at Grundy!), many memories were made and we can't wait for next year, Lord willing!!

Talk about picture overload.....I hope you don't have a slow computer! Well, if you do, I doubt you are even reading this.... :)