Easter Long weekend
part 2
Have been slack, it’s taken me a week to complete the story.
Easter Saturday night was a slap up affair, with Ken and Francesca
and the Barnard’s venturing around to our place for dinner. Enough to say, that
it was a late night with lots of frivolity and both inside and around the
bonfire.
Easter Sunday after a bit of a sleep in on the adult’s part,
we headed off to Cypress Lake for a hike out to a place on the coast called the
grotto. It was an easy hike over some beautiful terrain. Apart from being
chilly at times the weather co-operated and I would have got some great photo’s
if I hadn’t tried to be smart and manually set the camera up for the shots. I
took a couple of hundred shots and managed to over expose most of them. I guess
that’s why my camera has an in camera guide so that dummies like me can take
good photo’s.
Upon reaching the Grotto, a bit like a blow hole. We were
greeted by the sight of magnificently crystal clear waters below white cliffs
topped off with fir trees. Because there was still a bit of snow around it
provided some great shots, with the clash between the white of the snow, green trees
and aquamarine of the bay. Pity I didn’t get them.
After making it back to the cottage, everyone just went their
own way and veged out until dinner time which this time was at the other
cottage. Before dinner it was an Easter egg hunt and then sit on the shore line
in the freezing cold waiting to get a shot of the famous Lake Huron sunsets.
Camera set up properly. The evening was
spent with a good old sing song with music provided by Mick Barnard and Pierre
on guitar and the rest of us singing, out of tune.
Monday. Pack up day, we had a late check out so no rush to
be on the road. While the adults packed the kids kept themselves entertained
with hide & seek. Leaving at lunch time we made our way back to Burlington,
taking a wrong turn along the way and travelling through Menonite country. The
Menonites are sub-branch of the Amish, having travelled North across the border
in the Nineteen hundreds. From what I understand unlike the Amish the Menonites
don’t shun all technology, though they still get around in horse and carriage
and plow their fields with oxen or similar. On the way up on Friday we passed a
couple of their carriages on the road and on the way back we were lucky enough
to pass their farms, a couple more
carriages and folk on horseback. Hopefully later in the year we will have a
chance to explore the region more thoroughly.
We finally made it back home around 6:00 PM thanks to the
heavy weekend traffic heading back to Toronto. All of us warn out biut at the
same time relaxed after a fun weekend.
