wesley

so lorimer and lorimer went camping this past weekend. i would've written earlier than this, but i was at home sick yesterday for unrelated reasons.

camping was very fun. i was really proud of us because considering it was our first time we were remarkably well prepared. it was a good learning experience. we discovered that we overlooked a few things (like garbage bags), and completely forgot the stove (we both thought the other had packed it, but we had the bbq so we were a-ok), but all in all we did very well.

our campsite was pretty nice. it was actually much bigger than we needed, so next time i don't think we'll get such a big one. we were surrounded by a very large muslim family which made for very interesting people watching. i was just wrapping up a book called "girls of riyadh" which is actually about muslim girls so i found it particularly interesting to see how some of them wear hijabs while others did not. i learned from my book that it's a reflection of how devout a girl is to her religion. brendan noticed that only 2 of the men adjourned to the tent for prayers (they knelt in the mesh part of the tent so we were able to see them). considering there were so many of them (at least 25 with kids. taking up 3 full campsites) they were not especially loud and when they were, they didn't speak in english which allowed for some privacy for both them and us.

when camp got set up we walked down to the beach and i went swimming. brendan is not a fan of swimming, while i on the other hand love swimming. i had to swim alone for years during family vacations, and i did look forward to a partner who would join me. so this is something that we'll have to find some middle ground on. when we told this to brendan's aunt later she laughed at us and said "oh you newlyweds, by my age i just yell 'GET IN THE WATER!!' ".

we ate a super great dinner that brendan made on the bbq, not long after i was finished the washing up did we start our campfire. it was so lovely. we roasted marshmallows for a long time. b was super thrilled to discover that he was going to introduce me to s'mores for the first time because i'd never had one before. after my first one i suggested other ways of doing it, he was unimpressed by my techniques and said that i'm too progressive.

i kept wondering what time it was, but b said that when camping time is of no consequence, so we just rolled with the flow. however, i did peak at the clock before i fell asleep and it was 11:20. we slept in the following morning. it was much warmer in the tent than i had expected. i had all these layers of clothes to keep me warm, but didn't end up needing my socks and hoodie. our new sleeping bags are super cozy. when we got up we had a lovely breakfast, followed by another swim and a walk about, then it was time to pack up.

after leaving silver lake we went to brendan's aunt nancy's cottage. it was fun hearing stories from her and having a better sense of what that side of the family is like. she took us out on a boat ride to see sharbot lake and fed us dinner. it was fairly late before we headed out. b got showing his cousin how to play "here comes the sun" on her guitar. it was funny because we brought his guitar along with us camping but he didn't end up taking it out of the car. meanwhile as soon as he touched quinn's guitar it was difficult to get it out of his hands so we could get going.

we've decided to go camping labour day weekend too :) it worked well on a long weekend, so we'll probably do that pretty frequently :)

it's gonna take time,
a whole lot of precious time.
it's gonna take patience and time,
to do it right child.