We decided to a take a spur of the moment vacation to Lake Winnipeg right after school ended. We originally planned this trip for May 2020, but then covid hit, and we didn't do it. But this year we did! We hiked, ate some genuinely awful Chinese food, thoroughly enjoyed the lake, watched the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, listened to The Great Gatsby, and had fun and fantastic conversations. Good times.
We found an old payphone which the kids were fascinated by. I told Z about making collect calls to my parents when I was a kid and he wanted to try it. So he made a collect call to Nate (youth group leader), but it wasn't nearly as fun because everything is automated now and you can't hear the person you're calling until after they've accepted the charges. Boo!!
Z was determined to catch his hat when we threw it to him off this tower. But he never did.
The lake was really beautiful and really big!
Fossils!
Z was teaching Eden how to skip rocks
Our place was just a quick walk to the lake. One evening the lake was still, just like a mirror.
And one morning Z and I got up in time to see the sunset. Gorgeous!
There were lots of rock throwing and rock skipping contests.
We had fun taking panoramic pictures, especially once we discovered how to get the same person in the picture twice!
On the way home we stopped at the Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg and saw Malala.
