Cabin on Crooked Lake

It was great being back in my home church today.  It's a small church so everyone knows everyone and I got a lot of hugs and "welcome backs."  My grandma told the elder in charge this month that we would be back for church this week and then told us that we should plan to have a song ready for special music.  So, last night we practiced a version of "Jesus Paid it All" that Jonathan had sung at his church during Spring Break with Bryn playing the piano.  This time he also had the parts for two cellos, so Ty played the one cello part and I played the other on violin.  I think it went pretty well and afterward lots of people told us it sounded great.

When church was over we went home for Sabbath lunch and relaxed for a little bit watching a few kids videos on Tyler's request.  After watching a couple of the half-hour videos, we put on quading clothes and my parents, Bryn, Jonathan, and I drove up to my uncle's cabin for some outdoor fun.  My mum took pictures and then decided to stay in the truck and read while the rest of us drove to a dam at the end of the lake.  When we got back to the cabin, we weren't quite done wanting to quad so we set out again in the opposite direction and went on a trail leading up to a lookout.  We got as high as we could before the trail disappeared and then made our way back again.  Then Jonathan wanted to try out my dad's motorbike again so he took it out on the logging roads while my parents, Bryn, and I carried our canoe down to the lake.

First my parents and I took the canoe out for a ride, but it wasn't too enjoyable because of the large quantity of mosquitoes hovering nearby.  I kept hitting my mum on the back to kill the ones that landed on her.  When we got back to shore Jonathan was back from his drive and so I went back out with him after I covered myself with bug spray.

Then Bryn joined us and we proceeded to try to get stuck in some waterlogged logs and trees in one corner of the lake.  It's a favourite pastime of mine and Bryn's when we go canoeing at the cabin.  It's really a very challenging sport to get stuck and then try to find a way out of the mostly-underwater maze.  By the time we made it back to the dock, it was getting dark so we pulled the canoe back up to the trailer, loaded everything up and headed back down the mountain.