During the first week of July, the family took a vacation up into the Muskoka region at Waseosa Lake just outside of Hunstville. The cottage was perfect — rustic but comfortable. The lake was relatively quiet; there was a dock and small area to play in the water; and the weather was hot but not crazy summer hot.
ABOVE & BELOW: As you will see, a lot of photos of Fitz on this trip are of him eating meals. He was a hungry boy since he loved running around the dock, up and down the hill, and chasing Matt in circles throughout the cottage.
ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz was a reluctant swimmer during the week. But he spent a lot of time sitting on a log right on the shoreline splishing and splashing.
ABOVE & BELOW: Our lone excursion away from the cottage was to Ragged Falls about 25-minutes away and on the western edge of Algonquin Park. It dropped probably 75 metres and had quite a strong current. Fitz seemed to be a little scared of the noise an didn’t want to go to the edge of the rocks to look down.
ABOVE & BELOW: This little table was the focal point of a lot of play time as it allowed Fitz to multi-task: cars could zoom around AND he could keep an eye on boat passersby.
ABOVE & BELOW: Fitz really liked to yell out HELLO to any boaters passing by our cottage. Though, he often yelled it after they had long passed us and were looking the other way.
ABOVE & BELOW: More shoreline time and Fitz’s Coppertone commercial reenactment.
ABOVE: We also finished a puzzle. It was probably the only item on Carly’s to-do list for the week.
ABOVE: There was an island right across from our cottage called, get ready for it, Treasure Island. Carly swam across to it a few times during the week.
A parking lot and a curb/ledge: probably the most exciting thing ever for Fitz.
