Friends

When you are little, it's super quick to make friends. While we were in Canada, a friend came to visit with her son. Matthew and Darius are only a few weeks apart, so they had no problems becoming buddies.


The window was the most entertaining to them. Especially since Matthew taught Darius how to holler outside at anyone passing by. Which cracked up the outside people. Which cracked up the toddlers. Who then continued their new game for about 20 minutes.

Cards

The thing I miss most about my family? Playing games. Most Sunday evenings, Nick and I could be found at my parents house playing board games with the kids. My dad didn't like to play, but my mom would join in. I really miss that.

One of the fun things about camping when it rains, is there is lots of time to play cards. Even if there isn't much time to have campfires. We also fit in some mad libs.

The Tent

More vacation stuff, I know.

So we took our well worn tent with us to Canada. It had made the trip before, and was a great little tent. Then the rains came. The rains came down, and the water came in! The tent was leaking all over us. There is nothing good about being woken up in the middle of the night by cold water dripping on your face. Then you roll out of the way, and put your face into a wet pillow. Luckily, my sleeping bag was very water proof, so I just sunk deeper until all that was left was a lump in the bag. Nick was not so lucky, and had a bath while he slept.

When morning came, we attempted to fix the tent. Which is when we found out how lucky we were it didn't collapse on us. For collapse it did in the morning.



Since this happened the first night of our week vacation, and there was more rain predicted for the week, we were stuck buying a new tent. Our options were few, so we ended up with a bigger tent than expected.

Canada Vacation

Besides, family, friends and fun, the best part of going to Canada?
Tim Horton's! I love their hot chocolate, and donuts. I am not a donut person, but I sure do love how light, fluffy, and not overly sweet the donuts are. My favorite is the honey krueller. It falls apart in your mouth. Tyten figured out that if he woke up at 7am every morning, he could go with mom and Aunt Bev to 'Timmy's'. He loved starting his morning out with chocolate Timbits (aka donut holes). On this morning, the drive thru girl slipped 8 Timbits in for him, instead of 5. He was so excited to show everyone his bonus.

Nick had fun relaxing, and torturing Tyten and Chelsea. Stitch was so worn out from camping, he would crash every time we got in the car-no matter how far we drove.

The Overweight Bag and the Cinnamon Bears

Late Wednesday night (8/12) my dad, Sharon and Josh pulled up to our campsite. When Sharon had weighed in her bag at the airport, it weighed in at 53lbs, 3lbs over the limit. With a little finagling from my dad, she didn't have to pay the overweight fee. But imagine our surprise when she exclaimed it was all our fault. We didn't believe her, so she showed us the proof:



Thank you Sharon for bringing us 13 lbs of cinnamon bears! And the chocolate covered ones were such a surprise and luxurious treat.


Background: One of the things that we miss from out west are cinnamon bears. Sure, you can find them at Yummies in Kittery, but I prefer not to pay their price. Especially when at Macey's in Orem they were usually on sale for $1-$1.50 for a 1 lb bag. So when we were asked if there was anything we wanted brought out for us, cinnamon bears it was. We asked both my family and Sharon (Nick's mom). Why? We knew that if my mom forgot (with 8 kids she's apt to) Sharon would pull through. My mom did bring us 2 bags.