Jul 18, 2008

Off to camp!!





Laurence and Susannah heading off to Birch Bay Ranch last Sunday!! The two goblets they created to take with them. (They were had to take something 'Royal' with them for a Royal meal as they were going during the 'Royal' themed week and for one meal had to wear something or take something with a Royal theme to it. So we decorated dollarama plastic goblets with stick-on jewels to take - turns out everyone LOVED their goblets soooo much and everyone else either took boring swords and shields or nothing but luckily I had sent a packet of 6 crowns and a spare tiara with Susie in case anyone forgot something so Laurie and Susie shared them out with people)

The other pictures show Lauries dorm which is the cream block on the end of the row of buildings and then Susie by her bunk bed which is the top bunk.

They loved camp and say they can't wait to go again next year :) The first thing Laurie said when we saw him was 'I'm going again next year'!!!! :) Second thing was 'Can I have a hot bath? He missed his hot baths - Laurie LOVES to soak in the bath with a book like I do :) and he had cold showers at camp lol! But he loved camp! They really LOVED it :) Yesterday they went canoing, they've been trail riding, had movie nights, been zip lining, wall climbing....all kinds of things, had camp fires every night......huge waffles for breakfast....

But wow the boys dorm STINKS lol! ;)

Home again!

Susannah and Laurence left for camp last Sunday (and had a FANTASTIC time) and we left for Canmore on Monday morning. We've all had a lovely week and we arrived home tonight after picking Laurie and Susie up from Birch Bay Ranch tonight and having a BBQ and watching their Rodeo their tonight (oh wow that was cool - seeing Laurie turn round on the back of the horse after just 5 days of riding and seeing Susie dismount confidently and calmly and walk her horse off towards the stables).

It's been a great week - we were worried the weather wouldn't be good but we ended up having great weather and I came home with a tan :) the pool was a real sun trap.

I really needed this break - just a few days away - we've been to Canmore and Banff several times before and done all the touristy things before so this time we went to relax - we took the fishing gear, my book, and my paints and canvases and we sat by the lakeside and relaxed. We spent hours in the pool at our chalet and that was all we did for a few days :) Totally switched off from the speed of life :)

We stayed at www.mysticsprings.ca/ and it was lovely :)
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