A weekend at the cottage




A weekend at the Cottage

On the weekend of the 5th of august, my family and I were all envited to go to my aunt and uncles cottage in the Muskoka's. Even though everyone was invited, only my parents and I ended up going. My brother was working, and Mac had to stay back to help a friend print stuff at Elevator. So it was just me, my mom, my dad and my dog.
Apperently just a few days before we went up, there was a huge storm system that passed through a huge area of cottage country, leaving most people without power. My aunt and uncle had already been without power for 3 days before we arrived.
I ended up just chilling and playing around with my camera. Having no power at a cottage isn't anything foreign to me, thats what I'm used to.
There was a little garden where there were so many butterflies, so I took some pics of them. You'll see them in my gallery.
We took a boat ride with my uncle and went to see all the damage from the storm... Some of it was amazing. There were huge trees riped right out from the root. Some cottages were lucky... But others weren't. There was one cottage on a hill surrounded by trees which were now riped out from the roots and thrown all over. One of them fell right through the roof of the cottage. There was a team of at least 15 people helping out to get rid of all the fallen trees.
On the last day we were there, there was a helicopter that was flying very close to the cottages apperently looking for places where the trees had fallen on top of the power lines. Eventually it came back with a hook on a cable that they used to lift the trees off the lines. I took some pictures cause my uncle loves helicopter pics. Here is the gallery of my weekend


It was a really nice relaxing weekend. Thanks aunt Carolyn and uncle Brian :)