Last Thursday, Tracey, Mackenzie, Edzèa and I hiked out to Cameron Falls. It’s about an hour drive out along the Ingraham Trail (the end of the road). We had fairly good weather. No sunny skies but it was about +5. We made sandwiches from the leftover Thanksgiving turkey which we had at the falls and the girls enjoyed the outing. We both appreciated our husbands a little more as we realized how heavy it is to hike with your child on your body. There was a little bit of ice along the way so we had to be extra careful. We passed an inukshuk sculpture garden that had obviously been created over the summer hiking months. In the picture of all four us, I had set my camera up for self-timer and the inukshuk that we were crouching beside toppled towards us at the moment the picture was taken. (see pics under Froehler Travels if you are interested)
The hike itself isn’t very long. Tracey and I took pictures along the way in the hopes that we’ll be able to do some paintings whenever our children allow us some time!!! Tracey and I are both artists…or we used to be! Once we arrived at the Falls, we were ambushed by whiskey jacks. The girls were fascinated by them. Tracey tried to get Edzèa to look at her to get a photo of us but Edzèa was much too interested in the birds to look at Tracey.
On our way back, we were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of an Arctic Hare that was in the middle of changing it’s colour for the winter. We got one good shot before he/she bolted.
It was a very peaceful afternoon as both of the girls like the outdoors and love to be carried. It was quiet and lovely out there with no one else on the trail. We figured that this would be our last hiking opportunity for the fall as the cold weather is just starting to peek it’s head in. It was actually -4 over the weekend although it warmed up to +8 today.
Edzèa has had a bad cold/fever today which I figured out a couple of hours before going to Infant CPR so her Daddy was able to come home and look after her while Mommy went and took the brief training. We have a free post-natal program that we go to every Monday afternoon that hosts a variety of topics of interest to parents. This week was the Infant CPR. Next week, they are hosting a little Halloween party for us. I will post pics when I have them. I’m off to bed now as I have a feeling it may be a long night with poor little sick child. I broke the bank tonight and bought her a new little aquatic mobile that she loves (Mackenzie has one). It has worked already as she woke up once already in discomfort. I turned the musical mobile on and she went straight back to sleep after staring at it for a while. It looks like a real aquarium that has water, lights, bubbles, fake fish/seaweed etc. in it and soothing music to lull babies to sleep. It works! G’night.