Enjoying Nature

After breakfast, we decided to go for a short 'hike' with the kids.  We only got a little way down the trail before Ben was complaining that the grass was bugging his legs.  We ended up turning around and going back to the trailer to get Ben some pants and it made all the difference in the world.

 We had a great time exploring!  Ben found a stick that he carried the entire time.  He thought he was pretty cool!

 Of course, because Ben found a stick, Emma wanted one too!  Lennard found one for her and she was all smiles!

 We met a lady on the trail that took our picture for us!

It was seriously the most beautiful day and a nice trail.  We loved every minute of it and the kids even enjoyed it too!

When we got back from the walk, we decided to explore a bit more and took a drive to St. Mary's Lake.  It was quite the drive to get there, but it was a beautiful lake.  The kids loved getting to throw rocks into the lake and it was cool seeing all the huge tree trunks and roots.

 Ben spent the time making a 'dam'!  He was so proud of himself and roped all of us into helping him!

 As we were leaving he kept having to add just one more rock.  It was fun to watch him.

After lunch, we took the kids in to Cranbrook to go swimming at the wave pool there.  The 'waves' were pretty pathetic, but the kids had a lot of fun swimming with us and the pool was nice and warm!  We then surprised them and took the to 'The Secret Life of Dogs' movie.  We were all pretty water logged, so it was nice to just sit and watch a movie together.  They were really tired afterwards, so we headed back to the trailer, had some dinner and then played SkipBo with the kids.  They went to bed really well and it was a good thing too... we had a major rainstorm come through with super loud thunder and lightning!  Thankfully, they slept through the entire storm!  What a blessing.