Camping at Algonquin

On Sunday, David, Mateo & I drove up to Algonquin Provincial Park, which is up in northern Ontario. We met up with Ellen & Gord, who were camping there. Gord set up Opa Albrecht's roomy five person tent for us, and we set up Mateo's pack-n-play on the one side and our comfy air mattress on the other. It was practically a house. Even David could stand up in it. ;)

It was so nice to be out in the "wilderness," as wildernessy as electric camp sites can get. Take, for example, Uncle Ed's enormous RV, which has a television that is bigger than ours, and in which you can bake pizza in the oven. Not very wildernessy. But it was convenient for them in the rain!

We managed not to get wet, though, either. David & Gord rigged up a tarp contraption over the middle of our site, close enough to the fire that we could sit around it without getting wet. The site was a little dangerous though, with all the tarp lines everywhere. People who cut through our site nearly got clotheslined more than once.

To combat the rain, we played with Mateo in the tent, went to the cute little museum at the Visitors' Centre, and read. When it wasn't raining, David & I went to the Logging Museum, which is an outdoor museum that chronicles the history of logging in Algonquin Park. We also took some walks around the camping area.

It was too chilly to go swimming, so Mateo didn't get that "first" this time around. We didn't go in either. There was lots of Oma-time, though, which especially Oma herself enjoyed. Patricia, Uncle Ed's daughter, also enjoyed spending time with Teo, and even changed a few diapers for us!