Summer vacation

We had a 10 day trip to the cottage for our big summer vacation again this year.  We had wonderful weather and went on a few adventures but mostly stayed close to the cottage and the beach.  Luckily over the years we have found the right balance of what Sophie can tolerate medically and physically and we can do so much with her away from home regardless of her disabilities.

In a strange turn of events Lucas had more health troubles than Sophie.  Lucas was having asthma attacks each night due to the heat and natural surroundings.  He is like me and is allergic to everything up north that is in abundance, like moulds, pollen and grass.  But he was fine and we didn't have to have any hospital visits up there like we have in the past with his asthma.

 Lucas had a blast in the water this vacation because it was non stop waves.  We had the boat out one day, the boogie board other days.  Knowing that we were missing the olympics we had some mini olympic trials of our own.

Lucas practicing his olympic speed walking lol.....

Sophie preparing for the women's marathon - freestyle, of course.....

We headed out for a day trip to Tobermory one day and ended up at the Bruce Peninsula National Park and did the hike there.  This was one of Sophie's longest hikes at the Bruce so far, she did 2K.  Lucas and I did 6K with 4K of it being more rugged, so Jason and Sophie headed to the museum.

Some more olympic trials this time on the balance beam, er, stump, whatevs....

Practicing the gold medal finish...

Lucas was really pumped to do the hike with me and he was trying to get me to do the 18K to Cyprus Lake.  This was at about 3 in the afternoon and we had one juicebox with us. :p

He was not too pleased that we were only doing the 4K Burnt Point Loop trail again.  That is until we were gone quite a while and hadn't come across a location marker for some time.  We both figured we must be close to the end as we had already looped around Georgian Bay. 

Then we got to the marker letting us know we weren't quite half way.  Blah.  But we continued on and before we knew it we were finished the side trail.  We all hit Dunks Bay for a swim after dinner and then headed home to the cottage.

We once again had two nurses with us for night shifts this vacation so that I could sleep and be fully awake in the day and enjoy my vacation as well.  Jason's mom also came up for a couple days so the kids loved visiting with her too.   Sophie was pretty worn out after this trip but we all were!