The Pinery

We finally got together with the gang for a big camping trip in Ontario at The Pinery. It was a really nice campground and I think we should meet there again and try for better weather. We got rained on most of the weekend, luckily we had lots of tarps and made a tarp village to be able to hang out and play games. Not such great weather for camp fires. Andrew and I picked up Deb on the way and were the first to get there, we wandered down at the beach for a bit.

Saturday it rained most of the day so we went to the nature center, watched a movie on wolves and now we've all decided that we want to go camping next time in Algonquin park and try to see wolves, or at least hear them. Then David shared that is where his cottage is, so we're going to forgo camping and go there, "thanks David" :). We found some great mittens that Erika and David modeled for us. These are so you can walk in the cold with your sweetie and still hold hands.

Saturday night we decided we were not going to let the rain deter us any longer and off to the beach we went.

The water was VERY cold.

Extremities were tingling.

Andrew and Corey...being Andrew and Corey.

The remainder of our tarp village. The other tarp over the picnic table on the left was already taken down.

Oh and how could I forget, we had an extra visitor most of the weekend. He first appeared right around when Erika and Joe arrived. Joe said, "I think a cat just brushed up against me." We all kind of laughed at him, and then Erika started yelling "Get off me" from the back seat of the truck. It wasn't a cat, but a raccoon trying to climb up her leg and into the truck. He hung out at our campsite most of the weekend, randomly showing up underneath someones chair. We tried to scare him off, chase him off, throw stuff at him, finally squirting him with water did the trick. But then he got his revenge by getting into the cooler and pulling out the sausage package and dragging it into the woods and eating them, WHILE WE WERE ALL STILL SITTING THERE!!! Some how he got into the cooler in silence and dragged it out, because we made sure to put the coolers in the trunk at night once we knew he was around.
[Photo courtesy of Joe Frey]