Our Vacation

Susie and I just returned from a week's vacation. We had a great time and realized how different it was this year since it's the first time all the kids are relatively independent. Diapers are a thing of the past, and they all play well together. We spent five day's at my dad's cottage which is about 45 mins north of Parry Sound. Highlights included watching bears eat garbage at the local dump, going for boat rides, fishing, swimming out to an island (with lifejackets!) and catching a water snake (although Susie mysteriously vanished into the cottage when this event occurred!) I particularly enjoyed watching dad trying to get his little John Deere tractor to work so he could pull all five kids up a hill! I had to push to get them going, but eventually it worked.