Back From the Cottage....

... and feelin' oh so relaxed. Yep Fred and I went away for a few days to Mark & Rhonda's cottage up north (about an hour and a half from the house). We left Sunday late afternoon after having a busy weekend (youth girls sleepover for me, Fred away at a Father and Son camping trip) it was raining pretty hard but we didn't really care -- we were on vacation! I had never been to the cottage before so I was thrilled when we pulled up to the cottage and it looked like this:


We had a really good time - the cottage had this great wrap-around deck that had a great view of the lake. Though there were a lot of bugs and the weather wasn't as good as we had hoped we still were able to sit out on the deck and enjoy the sun, canoe, kayak, bbq, play games, eat (we ate so well!) and just plan relaxed.



The cottage doesn't have any hydro so we used a generator when needed and they had a propane frig and stove. The only thing I couldn't get use to was not having my fan. Fred tried so hard to get one to work for me - but no luck, so sleeping at night was kind of tough.

Here is a pick of Fred and Abby headed over to an island for some fishing:


And me kayaking - so much fun. This was my first time in so I stayed close (plus I didn't have a life jacket on yet) but the following day I went out and did pretty good - didn't want to come in but my arms were getting tired after an hour!


Abby loved it at the cottage as well - as you can see from the above pic she loved getting in the water. Though she kept running away from us and we thought she was going to have poison ivy after running through the woods.

Anyways we came back Thursday afternoon because it had started to rain and well I was tired of the bugs and no sleeping :) What can I say I'm a resort girl ;)

So we continued to relax last night and today Fred has a youth event and I have been able to do some scrapbooking - love that feeling relaxed helps me to get creative!

Just 2 layouts for the pets books - very quick but fun!



So vacation time is quickly coming to an end but we still have dinner and a movie planned for Saturday and hopefully a relaxing weekend before heading back to work!