What to say about the May Long Weekend.... hmmm. Something about the bugs perhaps?
We pulled the girls out of school around 12:30 and got a head start on the cottage traffic. The lack of traffic was probably the best part of the weekend. We raced up north where it was raining. This was actually great as we were able to go for a family rock to the river to skip stones as the rain was ending. Then the kids went to bed and Mike and I played a round of Quirkle. The weekend seemed to be going well so far.
The next day we quickly realized that the great outdoors was teaming with black flies. Like so bad that we couldn't even venture outside. We attempted to walk to the river again but had to turn back. Instead we tried to amuse all of the kids indoors with colouring and games. Henry just wandered around and attempted to enjoy himself outside on his own while swatting away the flies. Poor guy. You had to feel sorry for him as he was so desperate to play with this one truck. We tried to have a campfire and roast hotdogs which was almost torturous. After a day and a half of this we decided we would enjoy ourselves at home more and got in our car first thing Sunday morning.
Playing Rukshuk
A burger and fries on the way home.
Scout enjoyed the car ride home so much that she kept jumping back in as we were unloading the car. It must have been cozy back there.
The rest of the weekend we spent hanging around in our backyard, swimming, playing on the swings, etc. Not a bug in Sight!!
