A few wet days at the cottage....

A few days at the cottage in the rain isn't very conducive to taking photos, so I have very few.  On Tuesday Paige, Rose, and I jumped in the car and drove to pick up Maura. The 4 of us drove up together so I would have some help if anyone got squirelly in the car.  Mike was away for 5 days at a conference in Chicago.  We stopped at Weber's for some dinner, and again the girls slept until we got there.  My dad had gone up to the cottage earlier, so we met him up there when we arrived around 8:00 or so. 

Here's a picture of Paige being "in her face" and intense around Rose. She does this all day long. 

Here's a picture of Paige about to attempt a little fishing off the dock with Grandpa as the rain subsided for a few minutes. 

But a few minutes after this picture was taken was when things really got wet.  Now that the G8 summit is coming to Huntsville, the cell reception has been ramped up, and you can even get a signal on the dock or the porch sometimes (with Rogers at least...not sure about my Telus).  Maura went out in the rain and sat on the edge of the last step down to the dock.  The rest of us were in the warm cottage with the heat on.  All of a sudden we heard what sounded like a scream.  We looked at each other like "what was that?".  I looked outside and all I could see was Maura in the water halfway down the dock with all of the boards missing.  In the picture above, the part right beside the boat is where about 10 boards were missing, and Maura was in between the dock frame.  It took me a second to realize what I saw and said, "Maura's in the water!" and my dad raced down to the dock and I followed.  Apparently she had walked down the dock a little farther to check the signal and the next thing she knew, she was in the water! A few things happened when she fell. 1)She hurt her bad shoulder, 2)Scraped up her back which eventually bruised black all the way up, and 3) dropped her laptop in the lake.  She had been calling us for a couple of minutes and we didn't hear her, so she was freezing, and hurt, and couldn't find the laptop.  My dad got a stool and she got out of the water and the laptop was also retrieved.  So scary and so strange that the dock just fell apart.  My dad examined it and there was a missing bolt which caused the frame to become a bit wider and the boards to literally just fall through. It was just a matter of the next person out on the dock falling through.  Horrible for Maura, but also good that it wasn't Paige or Rose in the water.  I would take the falling through myself to avoid them falling in.  Maura had a warm bath and then called a computer store in town.  They were actually able to retrieve her hard drive and boot up the computer.  Of course she will be needing a new laptop since one that has been submerged for 5 minutes shouldn't be trusted!

The next day was also wet so Grandma and Grandpa took Paige into town so she could get out of the cottage for a bit.  While they were gone I tidied up a bit, but then sat and watched a movie with Rose.  Haven't watched a movie during the day in ages.  It was quite nice. 

Paige had problems falling asleep all of the nights.  Talked about bugs again, and added snakes to the list of fears.  She also mentioned not liking the black sheets on her bed.  Oh well, she will no doubt get used to it the more we go up there. 

Anyway, it was a nice few days, and I was glad not to be home alone for the entire time.  The ride home went fine, and even after I had to drop Maura off partway home on her way to the Trout Club with my dad, I managed to stop at a rest stop, take Paige to the washroom while lugging the car seat, and feed Rose and change her in the car all by myself.  The we had to continue on for about an hour by ourselves.  Eventually Rose screamed inconsolably since she was awake for the hour, but I pulled over and retrieved the soother and all was well for the final 15 minutes.