Cottage Week 2020

I was so excited when Emily suggested a cottage week together. I was also super excited when she had a connection to a cottage that was pretty cheap on a beautiful lake with a little sandy beach near Huntsville. We were all super excited for cottage week!

Monday August 10 - the arrival

The very unique looking cottage.

Tuesday August 11 - water fun, sand fun

Wednesday August 12 - kites, Boston Pizza, bonfire

Thursday August 13 - water craft, Kawartha Dairy, Zoom meeting - Marvin Perkin

Sonia's Anti-Racism Group - The guest speaker Marvin Perkins was amazing. He spoke about the Book of Mormon, about race, about Blacks and the Priesthood. It was so good.

A tear.

Friday August 14 - Muskoka Pioneer Village, GF Poutine

Saturday August 15 - Goodbye

**Today is Thursday, July 31, 2025. I can't remember when I actually discovered that I'd never posted about our first cottage week ever. Looking back at these pics the kids look so little. But it's thinking about that this all happened in the thick of the Covid19 pandemic. This cottage week - even with the weird cottage and mouse poop in a few too many places, this week was an escape from the chaos in the world around us. I'm so grateful for the genesis of this tradition and all that has come from it. 

Oh and I just remembered about a few more pictures that I'd taken. Not sure which day was what, but highly possible that these are all from the Friday.

The Pilot

The a/c broke in the van. I can't remember when. The discussions began. To fix or not fix. We took it in, he recommended this tie off thing? Fix the a/c in the front of the van but it wouldn't go to the back, some other guy would fix it, he wasn't sure how much it would cost... Ken didn't want to spend anything. We talked about just dealing with it for the summer. The summer isn't long, and then next year we'd get a new car. Then we drove a couple of places and it was bad. Very bad. Then we started having a different conversation.

And then all of a sudden we were selling the van and buying a Honda Pilot. It's a really, really nice car. (SUV - whatever!) It has leather interior. Heated front and middle seats. Cooling front seats. Moon roof and sun roof. Navigation and entertainment. I feel incredibly spoiled and grateful, a little overwhelmed and maybe a little bit excited. We took the girls this morning and went to go pick it up!

Goodbye van.

Hello Pilot!

Ken and the girls made meringues.

And we went to the Lim-Anderson's for dinner. (Ken and Jinx might have gone outside and sat in the Pilot for a long time.)

Kate loves Bella!