Every summer we visit my parents in beautiful Miller Lake, Ontario, which is just over three hours northwest of Toronto in the Bruce Peninsula. Ok, I know some of you other CI moms are probably killing yourselves laughing at my declaration that 3 hours constitutes a "road trip" when a real road trip should be 5-6 hours minimum. But trust me when I say that anything more than one hour in the car with Ava is a road trip. Ava hates road trips. I think I am partly to blame, because our van has a DVD player and Ava demands to have Elmo playing whenever the car starts. But sometimes I just want Ava to look out the window at um other cars, trees, windmills, signs, cemetaries, empty fields, cows grazing, cows grazing, more cows grazing (ok the drive to my parents is really boring), anything but Elmo. But one can only hear a constant repetition of:
"I want ElmoIwantElmoIwantElmoIwantElmowantElmowantElmowantElmo?wantElmoWANT ELMO ELMO ELMO ELMO PLEASE MORE ELMO MORE ELMO PLEASE!!!!! in increasing crescendo" for so long. So, I end up giving in.
While the drive may be boring, once you get there, it is truly breathtaking. My dad took us all for a hike on the Bruce Trail......
Ava loved being in the backcarrier because she had views like this......
and this......
looking in the caves for bears......
of course the hike wore her out......
We also visited the beach which is fantastic because it is shallow for such a long way out ......
and jump over the waves......
no summer is complete without skipping stones.....
and chipmunks to feed......(I couldn't get a picture of Ava feeding them - she either ate the peanuts or scared the critters away)
Looking forward to our next visit at Thanksgiving!!!!
What a beautiful place to visit, nothing like that here in Texas!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, Kemper HATES road trips. Anything over 30 minutes and he starts fussing. We have to leave at night so that he will sleep and we can make it without going crazy! oh and he's nuts about Elmo too, crazy kids ;)