Tent up.... Tent down......

Today I woke up with the excitement of going to ON TREE (zip-lining, and other courses high up in the tree).  Unfortunately my Mom did some research the night before and found out that ON TREE was too expensive. She tried offering other suggestions for the day but none of them appealed to me. When she was out of ideas she decided that we would go put up our new tent ... In a public park !  I was like really excited  (sarcasm) what a poor substitute . But in the end it was more exciting that I thought putting the new tent up and playing with random parts of the old tent. Trying to create a shade tent with  the old tent (without success ).   And the most exciting part .... making a kite with the old tent! Well trying to ;). We also encountered .....Doctor Octopus.

One Giant Leap

So, I remember last year I jumped from a waterfall at Sauble Beach.  Well, this experience was ten times higher and scarier.  Here is the story, at Basin Head, PEI there is a beautiful beach with sand bars and "singing sand"...and you can jump off of a warf into deep river water flowing into the ocean.  To make things even more exciting, the current is really, really strong and fast.  Since my dad and I are daredevils, we decided to try the jump.  And of course, we LOVED it!

 Clara in mid-air (not walking on water!)

Papa taking the leap

Fish Out of Water

Today, I made this fish at Cavendish Beach, with seashells, rocks, and seaweed.

Leo and Papa made this sandcastle.

Anne of Green Gables

This winter we read Anne of Green Gables with our bookclub.  We both loved the book (Laurel for the second time) and always knew we'd have to visit Green Gables when we were on PEI this Summer.

When we got to Green gables it was a beautiful sunny afternoon and we could really imagine what LM Montgomery had been writing about all those years ago.  The place was beautiful, we even got to walk down "Lovers Lane" and through the "Haunted Woods" that Anne described so passionately.

There was even an Anne look alike walking around Green Gables.  She introduced herself and was very true to character.

Here is a photo we took with her and a bunch of other shots at Green Gables.

Racoons at Kouchibouguak

Are first week of road trip vacation is already over, for the last few day we have been camping at Kouchibouguak a lovely camp-site. At first Kouchibouguak was perfect, it had everything, beach, playground, hikes you name it. But we soon discovered a problem, raccoons!! 

It all started in are tent when reading at night, my mom heard a sound coming from are trash can, we all froze (except my dad that was sleeping) because we all knew it was a animal. My mom did not now what to do, she was scared but luckily I had ideas, I suggested to open the tent and flash a light on the trash can. It was the only idea so I did it,we did not have a very powerful light so I couldn't see quite well, the first thing I said to my mom was: ”hey, there are two fireflies”. In the end I realized the “fireflies” were glowing raccoon eyes!!! We were quite surprised. 

The next night something similar happened. We had been reading in bed for a while when I had to go to the bathroom and at the same moment my mom realized that she forgot to take out the trash. So we went together to the garbage bin on the way to the bathroom. As we approached the garbage bin my mom saw something moving. I did not see this movement so I didn't completely believe what she was saying so I contented myself to repeatedly ask her if she was sure. In the end we did not drop the garbage in that bin because my mom was certain that there was something in it, and for good reason because when I came out of the washroom I saw a big puffy tail and two “fireflies” coming out of the garbage bin!!! In the end my mom and I took the path with the most lights to get back to are the camp-site.

Clara

Magic

We are now at Tagkhonic Lake State campground.  We are camping here for 5 days and we have 2 days left.  It had rained a lot at our last campsite so we decided to buy some tarps for this site.  It seems like the tarps were magical because we've been here for three days and not a drop has fallen from the sky!  They are still useful; we use them for shade on our platform.

 

Tagkhonic Lake is beautiful. 

This morning we woke up and saw our cooler, it seems like a raccoon or squirrel had broken into it!  We are lucky we didn't loose much food because the cooler was almost empty.  The cooler is no use now as there is a big hole in the top.

Haunted House

I convinced my Papa to go to a haunted house in Niagara Falls. I was quite scared.  The haunted house was called: Dracula's haunted castle.  My Dad was laughing the whole time.  One time in the haunted house there was somebody who was copying me, for example I would say: "it is dark here" and then a whispery, scary, creepy voice would repeat my words.  My Papa insisted that he was not scared, but I bet that he peed in his pants that's how scared he was.

She got ink done

Oh, I forgot to mention, I got a tattoo.  I got it in Sauble.  Don't worry, it is not a real tattoo.  It is sorta like a henna but it stays longer.  And this is so cool, it is Amelia's aunt Alex that did the tattoo.  She had a crayon with this special ink in it and drew her design on.  Here is a photo of my tattoo.

Niagara Falls Camping

Hey, now we are in Niagara Falls and we are camping here.  But guess what?  I got sick!!!  It was terrible.  I am getting better so we can keep on with our vacation.  The camp site is beautiful.  It has an outdoor pool and an indoor one.  A playground as well. 

Here I am, sick and asleep, while Leo watches a movie.

Yesterday we went to the water falls at the end of Sauble River and I jumped off of the waterfall into a pool of deep water.  It was a long drop, I had time to say in my head "oh my God, I am crazy" but it wasn't that crazy, it was more fun than anything.


Then, at night we went to the drive in to watch movies.  The first one was called Brave and the second one was called Rock of Ages.  The second movie was not too appropriate for young kids and I didn't really get it.  Amelia found it boring so she went home.  Leo and Cobus almost fell asleep but I somehow managed to stay awake for the whole thing.  At the end, when coming home it was 2 in the morning and I had to stay awake in the backseat because Leo was sleeping on me!


In total I had a great day!

Monster

 Oh no!!!  A monster captured me, it had huge hands and his tongue was sticking out.  Here is my last second alive in my true form.  

10th Birthday!!!

It's my birthday!!!  We went to the science center.  The sport section was especially fun.  It was interactive.  I really liked the wheel chair race in the sport section.  After we came back home to enjoy a birthday party with: hot dogs, gluten free cookies and individual fruit sorbets.  The fruit sorbets were served in a cup made of it's own fruit.  For example: if you had lemon  flavoured sorbet it came in half of a real lemon.  Auntie Dorothy surprised me with a loud speaker for my MP3 player, it is purple!!!!

Tree climbing

Trees!!!   trees!!!   trees!!! I love trees... No, No, I addddore them I climb them all the time.

Clara