Our weekend plans were all totally changed - we were supposed to spend saturday in Red Deer, but we decided to go and get a new spare tyre after last weeks puncture - so we got that done on Saturday and were going to Red Deer on Sunday instead!! Then on Sunday night at 10:50pm there was a very loud explosion from outside and the house went dark. It was as if the electric pole had been struck by lightning but there was no storm in the area.
Lloyd spent hours trying to get hold of Fortis with no luck so we gave up until morning - just leaving a message on the automated service and hoping they got it! He had checked the power pole and the breaker was still up so it was fine - so we knew it wasn't us!! Everything in the house was fine - just no power! the thing about acreage life is that having no power also means NO WATER - as you need power to run the pumps from the well!!! So we can't flush toilets or get water from the taps!!! It was also +30c and we had no air conditioning (ok ok I don't expect sympathy from many of you hahahaha) but we have been used to air conditioning all summer so this was NOT good!
Anyway we decided NOT to go as far as Red Deer in case Fortis needed us to head back quickly! Chris was working at the golf course and at the acreage again so he couldn't come out with us again, but we didn't want to just stay home either - Summer really is sooooo short here and it was a holiday weekend and I didn't want to waste it!!! So we packed up a picnic and headed to Buffalo Lake to check out the beach that my friend Linda had been telling me about at the pool last week! She said that they go there quite often just for the evening because it's so close (an hour).
We were very impressed with this beach - the sand is groomed - there is no garbage - no yucky water - yes there is a bit of weed (I call it seaweed but I guess its lake weed lol but apart from that the water is clear - it is NOT like Miquelon which is YUCKY this year and last year the beach was covered in garbage and NASTY - this water didn't have bugs in it either!! Miquelon has all those little red bugs in it!! Ewwww!!
The camp ground has a store that sells food/ ice creams and has a grill that even does poutine etc!! They have two volleyball courts on the beach and two playgrounds. The boat launch seems great and then there is a shallow area next to the swimming area where you can rest your boat if you are just pulling up for a while! The water was lovely and warm!
