Well, we decided to go away for the weekend… Simon is going back to work on tuesday and though time passes more quickly when we are at the cabin, the kids are easier when we out of the house…
So we left at about 10:40 and got the ferry at 11… got to the other side of the River and went to eat lunch… just as we were about to head back on the road I realized that we forgot the keys to the Cabin…. I looked at the time and thought that we might be ble to get the ferry that was 25 min later…so I stepped on the gas…
well… that was not a good idea…
see….we were in the parking lot and though the road was ahead of me… there was also a concrete slab… our tires went right over and I was kind of stuck. And there was weird “grinding” noises coming out from under the car….
I went in reverse but wasn’t going anywhere… I asked Simon to get out of the car and push and went in reverse again… and the car finally moved under the watchful eye of a few onlookers… the minivan thankfully looks OK…
So we headed back towards the ferry again and got there just in time for them to close the gate right in front of us…. so we had to wait for the next one….. I called the friend that was supposed to meet us at the Cabin later today…
(sidenote… did you know that a minute of long distance with a pay phone costs 3.65?! and they interrupt you to ask you to put in more money so you actually get less!!! oh and Bell Canada payphones are now 0.50 instead of a quarter!!!))
It was a bit funny that the guy that was at the toll this morning recognized me when I bought the ticket for the third ferry ride of the day… I bought another series of 10 tickets…lol
Got to the cabin and settled in… since my mom hadn’t been there this year we needed to open the cabin and clean up a bit… bring the carpets out, sweep the floors, mow the grass that was waist high at a few places… Our friend found the place despite of the hard directions and we went and got some supper… we started a fire ate Pizza from the Village and then I put Khéna to sleep and the boys kept playing…
At 10pm there were fireworks in the Village because of the
We stayed around the fire a bit and then headed in also…
The next morning the boys played around a bit and at one point found their way into the Minivan… Xavier closed the door and Colin locked the door by accident and couldn’t get out… we were at the window telling him to press the button up but he just couldn’t get the concept… the keys of course were in the middle console… we got Colin to find the keys and put them in the ignition and turn the key… he got the power started in the car and we told him to push the window button to make the window go down and quickly got him out… we then went to a friends house and played in the waterfalls a bit and then headed back home…
What a weekend…
the cabin
 
the “lake”
 
At a friends house…
