A Typical Week

I started to write that title and then I realized there is no typical week up here.  Last week we had no guests and pretty crummy weather.  But even bad weather has its good points.  Beautiful cloud formations and lots of lightning!

On Thursday we had about 400 pounds of supplies sent up by float plane, it arrives at the dock across the lake and then we have to bring it by boat to our dock, load it on the truck and bring it up to the lodge.  No wonder everything costs so much up here!

On Sunday there were no flights in and out of Little Grand Rapids due to rain and high winds!  Even the Winnipeg airport was cancelling flights.  I watched the weather and worried because Corry was flying into Winnipeg on Monday and I was flying down to meet him.  Monday morning dawned with no heavy rain or wind but instead we had fog!  Basically zero visibility!  So we sat and waited and waited and finally at 12 pm the planes started flying...only 3 hours late!

it looked nice by the time we left..

but there were lots of clouds around and we kept loosing visibility

I arrived at St Andrews airport and rushed to our Jeep to see if it was still there and ready to roll after 6 weeks of being parked.  Thankfully it started right away and with GPS set I went to find the big plane airport so I could pick up Corry.

He was cheerfully waiting for me and after a few big hugs we were on our way!  First stop the hotel where we dropped off our luggage and then ran back to the car to start our shopping adventure.

Next was Cabela's... for those of you in the Vancouver area these stores are for the fishing, hunting and camping enthusiast.  $300 later and we had a new rod and reel and accessories for Al and of course a few extra things.  Hey what else is a Grandma for!

Then we started in on the boring shopping for food and necessities that I had been missing at the lodge.

Of course we had to go for dinner and we picked the "Olive Garden".  It was the first time I had ever left  being disappointed.  The salad especially was just not their normal deliciousness! Oh well!  We continued running errands and then retired to the hotel, me to put my feet up and Corry to go for a swim!

On Tuesday, Canada Day, it was a cold and windy day so we had a slow start and then went to find some fun.  We had checked on the internet and there was an amusement park called Thunder Rapids in Headingley, (close to Winnipeg) that had miniature golf and go-karts so we headed there.  But it was closed for the holiday!  For those of you not in Manitoba, it was a shock to me to find out that Manitoba has no shopping or anything on Canada Day!  And it was too cold to do outside activities!  Yeah I'm a wimp!  We finally found an indoor mini golf and played 16 holes (we skipped 2 to get around a slow moving group).  By the way, I was the winner!  But Corry got the only hole in one!

Picture from Corry's phone of the course

After a warm up in the hot tub and a couple of lazy hours at the hotel, we wandered out to find some dinner and then went to see the new Transformer movie at the IMAX.  It was a surprisingly good movie.  Mark Wahlberg made it through a whole movie without taking his shirt off!  I know that would be depressing for some, but oh well, no sex or nudity in this movie only machines killing each other!

On Wednesday afternoon, we caught the float plane back up to Little Grand.  Corry got to sit in the co-pilots seat for the flight and the pilot talked to him constantly for the whole hour.

Now it is time to get back to our day to day routine.

Corry's never ending job for the summer!

There aren't a lot of guests right now.  Do any of you want to fly up and go fishing??