She may not have been amused, but we sure were...

Victoria Day weekend - also known as the May 2-4 weekend (regardless of what day it actually fall on). In the States, the unofficial start of summer is Memorial Day - here in Canada, it's Victoria Day. We honour Queen Victoria, known for being rather grim "We are not amused" is one of the stock sayings associated with her.


Grim is not how most of us treat this weekend!


Most have traditions attached to this weekend - lots of people just enjoy the extra day off. We, as cottagers, head north at the first opportunity. For us, this meant that as soon as Son was finished with his swimming lessons, we were off! I made sandwiches, chips, veggies and dip, cookies and fruit, and we had a picnic in the car - we do what we can to get going early!

The weather was fabulous - shorts during the day, but once the sun went down, the sweats came out, reminding us that it was still only May. The boys (Son and Nephew) decided to swim:
This is before they went in, but they did get all the way in and stayed in way longer than I would have expected. Of course, they were a couple of Popsicles afterwards...


Lots of exploring to be done:

poking caterpillar nests.

catching tadpoles. It should be a good year for frogs, based on the millions of tadpoles we saw...

a little friend that seemed to follow us around. Props to me for staying still long enough to take the picture. Thankfully I have a zoom lens. I wasn't all that interested in getting any closer...

No pictures of the adults partaking of their favourite activities - suffice it to say, beer was drunk, cards were played, sun was soaked up, boats and docks were put in.

And knitting was done - fickle girl that I am, I worked on about 4 different projects - pictures soon. And the neighbours put in a new hot tub. Yes, we christened it. Happily.

And... I found anew yarn store in Port Perry. We drive through Port Perry on our way north. We usually stop at the Dairy Queen on the way home. "Never Enough Wool" is across the street from the Dairy Queen. Alas, they are closed on Sundays and Mondays and we don't get into Port Perry early enough on Fridays, so this will be a hit or miss adventure!