Wonderland

Hello everyone,

This is our last entry for our summer blog. This year we headed over to Canada's Wonderland. Louise, Jacynthe, Jasmine, Adrien and I left on Thursday after lunch to have supper at Mandarin's and then drove to Tottenham to my brother's place to sleep. Julianne spend two days with her grand maman in North Bay.


We were up early Friday morning and made it to the park for opening. Duane and his family joined us for the fun this year.

I spent most of the day with Jacynthe and Jasmine riding thrill rides. We bought our Fast Passes as we did not want to wait in line. The park was busy and people were waiting a long time to get on the Leviathan. Our wait time was about 5 minutes maximum.

We get got to ride the Sledgehammer this year as it was broken the last two years.  We also noticed that the Behemoth now has a seat belt. Wonder what happened for them to add this added security.

We broke our Leviathan riding record by riding 14 times this year. Eight of those times were in a  one hour span. We rode at night for the first time. It was awesome. Adrien rode the Bat a couple of times with us but is still a little young for roller coasters.

Adrien spent a couple of hours in the water park.

We tried the new Guardian roller coaster which was a disappointment for me but the girls seemed to like it. I thought the 45 minute wait was not worth the thrill of the ride.

We were quite lucky as the weather cooperated and we had no rain. We made it back home on time Saturday for Jacynthe to work.

I hope you enjoyed our blog this year. We are not sure what we are doing next year but I'm sure whatever it is we will have a blast.

Halfway Lake

Hello everyone, we are back from a 10 day camping trip to Halfway Lake. It is our fourth year going to this Provincial Park and our longest camping trip ever. We stayed in our favourite campsite, site 162.

The weather was so so this year as we had a couple of days of rain. It was quite cold on most nights with the mercury dipping to single digits many times. I spent quite a bit of time reading Game of Thrones and then Clash of Kings.  I'm hoping to watch the first two seasons on video this winter with Alex.


We were joined by my brother Rhéal, his wife Mélanie and their two daughters, Eve-Marie and Arianne. Jasmine and Adrien spent most of their time with their cousins biking around the paths, on the beach and in the park. Julianne spent most of her time in our campsite with us as she was a little too young to be with her older siblings and cousins.  She was homesick about halfway through the trip, she wanted to see Jacynthe. Louise took her to the park a few times to change her spirits. Next year we might bring her a little friend.

This year we took part in a few park activities with the kids. For those who know me well know how much I like snakes but I touched one for the first time in my life. Next step is putting one around my neck. I am working hard at overcoming my fear of snakes.

Louise, Jasmine and Adrien took part in a nature walk before leaving yesterday. We got home at around four and opened up our camper in our yard. It looks like this will be our last camping trip for Summer 2014. We'll probably camp out in the yard with Adrien and Jasmine for the remainder of the summer.

With one week left in our holidays we are looking at one last adventure. Looks like we are heading over to Wonderland sometime next week. Then it's back to reality as I start work back up on August 18th.