some of you already know this but

last weekend was beautiful here so we took the kids to kenora for the night to go swimming in a beach that isn't craawling with some sort of algae problem.(the biggest lake here has an unsafe algae level, or something like that)


it was really nice to watch the kids play on the beach and explore the things around them. Matthew found out that a beach is somewhere where he can throw wet sand in his hair reapeatedly, and mommy just has to dunk his head in the lake to clean it out




and the girls realized that snacks lef ton the sand are no longer ymmuy. we went through a few rice krispie squares to prove that point.


although the pool at the hotel as pathetic to say the least, the view of the lake while we ate breakfast was great, so great in fact that the kids barely ate, because they were to busy looking at the boats and birds flying by.


here are a few more pictures of the beach