Marten River

Hello everyone,

I hope that you are all enjoying the summer holidays as much as we are. This past weekend Alex, Adrien and I spent 2 days and 3 nights at Marten River Provincial Park. A couple of years ago we spent some time there together too and had an awesome time. I think it is important for my boys to be spending time together and build their relationship as brothers. It is not easy for them as their is a big difference in age, but I hope that in time that difference will become less significant.

We left on Saturday afternoon after closing and packing our tent trailer. I ran into a couple of issues with the rear suspension on our truck as I thought I had it fixed but found out that the rear shocks were leaking air. We ended up buying a new hitch to bring the camper higher off the ground and got going a couple of hours later than planned. I still need to get the truck fixed.

We got to the park at around 3 PM and had our site setup by 5:30 PM. Adrien was quite excited to be spending time with his older brother and dad. The first night we cooked some kebabs and had an awesome meal. This year there was no fire ban and ended up burning over half a cord of wood over the 3 nights.

We were quite busy over the two days that we were camping as we went on a 4 km hike one day and rented a canoe and paddled across the river on the next. We played a couple of games of Monopoly which Adrien won hands down. Adrien and I played some catch and I spent quite a bit of time reading Game of Thrones. I'm reading the first book while Alex is well into the second one. Alex and I spent quite a bit of time talking about the various characters in the story and I now think I understand who is who.

While Alex and I were reading Adrien was playing Zelda on his Nintendo DS. I like having him play Zelda because it forces him to read to move tot he next level of the game. Adrien is not a big fan of reading.

This year the weather was awesome and it only rained when we got back home last night once we had the camper opened up again. I guess we lucked out compared to a couple of years ago.

We are looking forward to doing this kind of trip on an annual basis.