Well this last week Charlie and I drove to Westport, Ontario, Canada with our friends family. We are close with his friend's family (Kyle). We are actually good friends with his younger brother Kevin too who lives in Huntington Beach, not to mention there family has known Psillos's for years. The drive was about 9 hours but it went by quick enough. We were fishing, making campfires, paddle-boating, swimming, cliff jumping and just relaxing. The boys also did A LOT of horse shoes. The trip was great. Kyle's Uncles came up too and they are really great people. His whole family is awesome! Plus since we actually had adults there we were eating real meals and not just grilled cheese and hot dogs! Even though we ate our share of those too. Charlie and I did our enchiladas one night, we had skirt steak, tacos, mediterranean pasta and Labatt Blue!!! Charlie and Kyle caught so many fish I couldn't even guess...One day they each caught nearly 20! There was a lot of Bass and primarily that's what they were getting.
We also did inter-tubing on the back of the boat, and lounged around on the tube's too! There were lots of spiders and snakes! We were seeing daddy-long-legs about the size of my hand! When we would wake up in the morning there would be 7-10 crawling around on our tent and all you could see is the silhouettes! Creepy but we got use to it quickly. There were also some jumping spiders and Garter snakes! We were actually on Garter lake so I guess that makes sense. Luckily I didn't see any when I was in the water only when hanging out on the dock but there were Copperhead snakes too! Other then that the wildlife was sort of minimal, lots of chipmunks, we heard lots of coyotes and saw some turtles. THey did have huge birds flying around whose wingspan probably stretched about 6ft! There were eagles and turkey vultures. I didn't take a ton of pictures because I would always forget my camera but I have a few of the cliff which was right across the lake from the cabin. I have a few pictures of my friends Lily and Kristen sitting on it...Now Mom take a breathe.. WE JUMPED OFF THAT CLIFF!! We only did it once but it is a good 50-60ft. It was exhilarating and frightening and the same time I can't even describe it. Kyle, Kevin, Charlie, Lily and then I jumped. I wasn't sore or in pain at all after. I have done some cliff jumping in my day in Hawaii and Pennsylvania but it never exceeded 30 feet so I felt very accomplished. It is a taste of what it would be like to base jump or something. I also have a series of pictures taken from the top of the cliff
We had a great time in Canada. We got stopped at the border on the way back so we had to fill out some forms and they went through our stuff. We looked like a couple of punk beach bum kids so I understand why! But it was a hassle..Anywho it was a great time. It was Charlie and I's 3rd out of country venture. I am going to post a blog soon that lists the places we have been for poops&giggles.
