August 25, 2006

Which brings us up to the last few weeks. It became obvious I needed a break to avoid crashing and burning so we took two weeks off. The first week involved us spending the week in a cabin on the shore of Lake Manitoba near the town of St. Laurent (about 1 hour north of Winnipeg). I was there Mon-Wednesday (came back for Leadership Summit) and Sherry and the girls were there Mon-Friday.

Our stay was free of charge as the owner is a generous lady who goes to our church. She’s known affectionately as “Grandma Joan”. She likes the cabin to be enjoyed by people in ministry who need some time away.

The cabin was part of a private row of cabins owned by the same family… the above pic is the gated entrance.

 

The view from the deck of the cabin.

 

Enjoying the beach under the full moon.

 

Kathryn LOVES the water.

And then there was the frog catching…

And the rock catching…

Sherry did this flowerpot (and she says she isn’t artistic!?!) but unfortunately it, the message to Grandma Joan and various other ones her and the girls created perished that night in a violent thunderstorm that also downed some trees around the cabins. Good thing Sherry took pics!

Of course there were also other important things to do like…

…reading

 

…writing (Sherry introduced Kathryn to Su Doku at this cabin. This is a pic of the first one that Kathryn completed without any help. So I tried one for the first time too. Couldn’t finish it.)

 

…and ice cream!

and here’s a fun little pic. Much like haggis is to the Scots, it is a national obsession for many Canucks to start their day with a bowlful of one of several brands of “spider egg cereal” (a mix of spider eggs, nuts and cereal flakes). However it is so rare to find an actual spider in the box that it is considered great luck… a good omen for our vacation!

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(p.s. scroll down for summer parts 1 & 2)