Bon Echo echo echo

It was about 4:45pm on Wednesday night when the sky went an eery black. The day hadn't been bad, in fact both Carl and I had walked to work without umbrella's. It started out sunny and humid but by 4:45pm the wind was ripping through Kingston, it was dark as night (almost) and rain dumped from the sky. The lights in my office began to flicker and a roll of thunder shook the building. It was perfect timing, both Carl and I are done work at 5pm, right when the down pour really began to pelt down! I was lucky enough to catch a ride with my friend Julie, Carl on the other hand had to face the elements without an umbrella...Not that that would have really helped with the wind. The thunder clapped and the lightening streaked across the dark sky. As Carl walked home he made sure to stay close to tall trees as the lightening was striking a little to close for comfort. There was no use in trying to stay dry, he was already soaked to his underwear. As the storm pushed on, Carl was faced with a dilemma...His walk home took him straight through an open field - Should he walk through it and risk being struck by lightening or take the long way around? The thunder roared and with that Carl opened his mouth wide and ran as fast as his legs would carry him across the field, hoping to be faster than the speed of lightening so as not to be struck by it! VICTORY! He made it! He later told me about his brush with death, telling me that he had never been that scared in a storm, the lightening was striking right above his head. He had heard that if you are struck with lightening, it is better to have your mouth open to avoid pressure (or something) which is why he ran across the field with his mouth wide open! That storm knocked out power for hundreds of people for a couple days and we later heard that a tornado actually touched down in the Hamilton area! But we survived :)

Later that night, after the storm had cleared and the sun was once again shining, we met some visitors for dinner! My parents friends, Frank and Bonnie Bucholtz from church back at home had come to Kingston for their sons graduation from Queens! While in town, they thought they would pay us a visit. It was nice to once again see some familiar faces!

On Friday night, we took off right after work to Bon Echo Provincial Park. It's about 2 hours north of Kingston and known for the 1.5-kilometre sheer rock face that rises 100 metres above Mazinaw Lake, one of the deepest lakes in Ontario, and features over 260 native pictographs - the largest visible collection in Canada.

We set up Friday night and on Saturday a few of our friends from church came by to spend the day with us! Below is Carl, Keri, Andy, Jen and Wendy!

We decided to do one of my favorite things - rent canoes and go paddling!

We paddled right beside the massive rock and looked for the native pictographs, of which we found a few!

Then we pulled over to do a short hike to a look out point!

That night we tried something we had never tried before!

We made chicken over the campfire!

My dad always used to do this so we thought we'd give it a try! Carl is getting used to the phrase "but my dad does it this way" when camping :) It turned out delicious (but mom I want to know what BBQ sauce you used!)

Overall, we had another great week and an awesome weekend away!