May 2-4: Summer Starts!

This May 2-4 was super busy! We planned a weekend at the trailer with Al, Steph and Colton, but also made sure that we got back in time for birthday celebrations for Kenny!

On Friday the 16th, we headed up to meet Al and Steph at their trailer up by Ipperwash beach :)

This year, May 24 was freeeeezing!! AND i forgot my coat at home. Good thing I brought 3 blankets, 2 sweaters, and boots! The first thing we saw when we got to the awesome site was Colton walking!! It was our first time seeing him taking so many steps! This pic is from Fri evening, greeting Moose and sitting around the fire trying to keep warm.

We had an easy supper on Friday night since Aleksy and I couldn't get to the campsite until about 7pm. Mmmm hot dogs and macaroni and cheese salad. The best hot dogs are cooked over the fire... Colton doesn't eat hot dogs, but he does like macaroni...

After staying up late drinking whisky by the fire, Aleksy was not feeling up for the 7am wake up from Colton! Probably doesn't help that our bed at the trailer isn't made for 6 ft 3 large people.... But Al was a keener making eggs and bacon all made before the 8 o clock hour. Good thing I stuck to one somersby and some h2o. We had our breakfast, packed some lunches and headed to the pinery for the day for some hiking and a beach visit!

I got a quick shot of the awesome camp site before heading out. Al & Steph are parked in the campground for the summer so they have planted a little garden and this adorable little stream is right beside the site.

 We made a mandatory stop at Timmies in Forest before heading into the Pinery: We're not used to babies waking us up at 6:30am so you can see that mine and Aleksy's are a little larger (That's my story... even though I never get anything smaller than a medium!). We made things real simple for the Tim's people by ordering one of every size and a different order in each.

After our pinery hike, we stopped for a picnic lunch: some sandwiches, salad and animal crackers (Colton and my fav!).

Then we headed to the beach where Moose made lots of new doggie friends by stealing their branches from the water and Colton worked on writing his name in the sand.
Colton is showing how cold it is with his winter hat and coat.

After leaving the pinery, we had some dessert: ice cream! The cold weather didn't scare us away from ice cream... They don't have the London Ice Cream Company anymore, but they do still have delicious ice cream! I had some birthday cake and a peanut butter variety of sorts...

Aleksy and I brought supper for Saturday: chicken breasts, salad and beans. But you can see that Aleksy is not cooking chicken here. This is because while this little grill was cooking our chicken, Aleksy and I sat together on one side of the picnic table causing it to tilt and all the chicken to fall on the ground. And so the chicken went into the fire and we had hot dogs instead...

And later night endeavors around the campfire where I consumed no less than 4 smores and some beverages were had. While I called it a night at about 1130, Al and Aleksy stayed up quite a bit later... And Aleksy drank my Somersby (I did not forget).

The next morning, we got up early (with our little Colton!) and headed back home for some birthday celebrations.

Sunday the 18th: Kenny's Bday!

On the Sunday, we after having a delicious Nova Era sandwich picnic, we met Steph, Kenny, Brandon & Rachel at the mini golf course on Windermere, which I haven't been to in so long! Rachel was the golf boss...

Birthday golf! After our mini golfing game that briefly had some rain, we headed back to Kenny and Steph's for some sliders and Caesar salad and for dessert, Aleksy and I decided to go a little nontraditional away from cake and at Nova Era we got some canolies and Portuguese custard tarts... sooo tasty! We figured Kenny would enjoy those more!