Save the sea turtles!

Last weekend, Sauvanne, Arianne, Renée and I organized a yard sale of most of our old toys and things. All the profits went to the Canadian Sea turtle network to help protect the Leatherback sea turtles. After sitting outside for five and a half hours, we managed to raise around 230$ for our cause. We are getting together this week to write to the organisation and send them the cheque!

This picture is a detail from our poster.

Air show

We are lucky to have our green roof for many reasons. One of them is because it is straight under the path of the planes during the Air show. Sitting on our lawn chairs with our neighbors Sauvanne and Arianne. Some F-18 jets got so close, we could see the writing on them. I do not have pictures of them, sadly, but here are a few good ones. We have been to the Shack and found a neat variety of creepy-crawlies like this caterpillar and this Dragonfly larva. School has started and Pictures will follow.

C"est l'aviron (it's the paddle)

If I have not been in touch with anyone for a while it's because we have been back-country canoe-camping along the French River. We had a wonderful time paddling about signing songs and listening to Nancy Drew: The Haunted Bridge, which I read out loud for the entertainment of the surrounding canoes. Although I didn't do much rowing, I was quite hoarse at the end of the day. We tried out new cooking skills on our camp stove. We had some disasters, like our brownies, who burnt to a crisp, but our pizzas were the envy of our all fellow campers. It's so much fun to float down rapids or jump off cliffs, but we were very happy to relax at the Pine Cove Lodge before coming back home.

To the cabin

For the past few days, we have been up at the shack. A lovely place to be. We swam in the lake, swung on the swings, got nibbled by mosquitoes, and hunted for frogs in the marsh. This is a picture of the lake at night and our sailboat, the Béluga optimiste

Summer wanderings

This is a slideshow of our summer wanderings in Québec.

At the camp

Last week, from Tuesday to Friday, was the six grader's annual end-of-year trip. After a seven and a half hour drive, we finally got to the camp where we were staying. As soon as we stepped out of the bus, we were sweped up into a whirlwind of activities lasting from 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM every day. Among these were archery, rock climbing, swimming (shhh! no one is supposed to know that!), survival in the woods giant stratego and hebertism, a sport wich involves poles , ropes trees and falls. It is also a system they used in the navy to keep soliders in shape for combat. Ingoring the blood-thirsty mosquitos, We all had an awesome time!

Archery

One of the Herbertism courses

Unicycling

Lately, our babysitter Celeste has introduced us to the unicycle club. Me and Rennée are practicing very hard on borrowed unis, but dad, who seems to have some experience already, is planning to try Unicycle basketball soon. This is a sport that the club organizes at the end of every meeting and looks EXTREMELY difficult. I can ride half the gym without falling now, but it is a lot of work. I will post some pictures as soon as I figure out how to plug dad's camera in.