I recently stayed at a cottage in the Laurentians

My daughter has been asking about going camping for a long time now. I would LOVE to share that kind of experience with her. It’s wonderful, and I’m fortunate enough to already have those kinds of memories. I’ve done it before, the hard kind of camping, The sleeping on the ground surrounded by bugs and other living things roaming the forest kind of camping. 

But I can no longer handle the … hardening, rewarding kind of camping she craves.

I wake up sore and tired in a regular bed, I don’t think I’ll fare too well sleeping on the ground. One day, if she really wants it, she’ll experience true camping in its most bare form. Until then, I hope she looks back fondly on the everyone gets a room, there’s a bathroom (2!), we have walls protecting us, a hot tub, a kitchen, a pool table, you’re surrounded by trees, making campfires and eating bbq, sitting by the lake and enjoying your surroundings kind of camping. My new favorite kind of camping.

I hope the kids enjoyed themselves as much as I did. And I hope we have fond memories for years to come.

While at the cottage I went a little overboard taking pictures. I don’t get the opportunity to do it much and I missed it, I craved it so so much. I don’t want to be able to walk, I want to be able to hike, to travel, to take the road less travelled (the one with no path), I want to happen upon a beautiful place, always with my camera in hand.  

I want to create moments