Happy Canada Day everyone! (Yes, that's a Tim Hortons Canada Day donut.)
For our first Canada Day, we decided to do as the locals do, so we rented a cottage for the weekend about 2.5 hours north and drove up into lake country.
Before I moved to Canada, I knew they had big lakes, but what I didn't get is that there are a lot of small lakes too, and I mean a lot.
Every one of those is a lake suitable for swimming, canoeing, maybe fishing. So the enterprising Canadians build cottages around the lakes, and retreat to them over summer.
A lot of them look like this:
They have their own dock, and sometimes a tiny piece of sand, and usually an outdoor entertaining space of some type with some outdoor chairs and whatnot, and a BBQ. The green covered area you see there is a mosquito-netted hut, because the entire area is home to the biggest and most bloodthirsty population of mosquitoes I have ever encountered.
So here was our Canada Day - having BBQs on the world's tiniest BBQ, and chilling out. Here's Stephen and Jax cooking the BBQ. It's about 8pm in this photo - we get a lot of daylight at the moment.
Steaks, potatoes and sausages! They don't really seem to have the same type of sausages here as in Australia (or if they do, we can't find them) - they're all crazy smoked sausages instead. Not so tasty. BBQ baked potatoes are nice though.
Jax was getting into the Canada Day spirit :)
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