Camping at Kikomun BC

After John and Gennie's wedding, a few people headed home for work but the rest of us went camping for a few days in southern BC. Jess and Shae went back to Edmonton but I took our trailer and the younger three to join the camping trip.

It was supposed to be a six hour drive home from Kikomun to Edmonton. But as I was driving on the ring road east of Calgary, we heard a strange scraping sound from the trailer. I pulled over immediately and was horrified to see that one side of the hitch had come unattached from the trailer. It took three stressful hours to figure out what to do and have it towed. It's now at a welder's shop in a small town outside of Calgary having its frame completely rebuilt. Not exactly a happy ending to our trip but if the hitch had come completely detached, the consequences could have been horrific so I guess we're lucky it wasn't worse than it was.

Camping at Slave Lake 2015

We hadn't been to Slave Lake for a few years and it was a treat to go back. The weather wasn't as warm as we had hoped so we didn't do much swimming but the beach was still lots of fun.

I have to explain this picture. I've talked before to the kids about going to Seal Island when I was young and about how I sometimes helped harvest seaweed on the beach. I told them how we would collect it and lay it out to dry and then sell it on the mainland. So when Hudson discovered seaweed at the lake, he was so proud to show me and wondered how much money it was worth.

Hudson's "parcour" course:

Our last night, there was a thunderstorm and we discovered a leak in the seam of our tent right above my head. But that was no problem for a tarp pro like Jess: he got out and rigged up this tarp over our tent in the middle of the night and in the middle of a storm. Not bad, eh?

Hudson entertained himself for a while watching a squirrel. He just sat and watched it like he was watching a movie. Which is why I love taking the kids camping!