Anniversary

So today is our 2 year wedding anniversary. To celebrate this year, we spent 3 days camping in the Whiteshell. I would say it was a good anniversary.

We stayed at the Otter Falls provincial campground. It's a fairly small campground, at least in comparison to Hecla or St. Malo. The sites aren't as private as the aforementioned campgrounds, but we had chosen a site that only had a neighbouring site on one side. When we picked the site we didn't realize we were right next to the road either.

Would we go back to Otter Falls? Maybe. What the campground has going for it is the fact it is literally right on Margaret Lake. You can actually book a site that is directly on the water. So if you like to fish you can fish from your campsite. If you're a boater, you can pull your boat right up to your tent! And some of those sites actually had a small sand beach right off of them; if you are there with kids you can watch them swim while making dinner!

One highlight for me was our canoe trip. We rented a canoe and tooled around on the lake, and I really enjoyed it. Unlike Lake Winnipeg, the lakes in the Whiteshell are a little...calmer, and less unpredictable. I was a little surprised that I could rent a canoe without even giving my name; the Otter Falls Resort (next to the campground) rents out the canoes, and seriously, they took my money and rented us the canoe without taking a name, phone number, or credit card. We could have just loaded it on top of our car and drove away (but we didn't, just to be clear!). Had we rented a powerboat they would have taken our name (since they were going to record my Pleasure Craft Operator's license info)

We played games, had naps, ate some good camping food, and spent the whole time together. It was a great anniversary. I love you babe!