Friday, September 4, 2015

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!



Spartan Race

Connor and I ran in a 5k Spartan race at the end of the summer and then he joined Maira and Hudson in running the junior 1k version. It was a tough course at a ski hill so there were lots of big hills but it was lots of fun.