Wendy generally works Saturday evenings at Safeway and I work Saturday and Sunday during the day at the Salvation Army, we don’t have a lot of days to get away as a family. Yesterday we woke up and instead of sending Mark to school, we got in the car and drove north to Prince Albert National Park for a day of driving around, taking some photographs, hiking, and relaxing.
Generally we take the main highway into Waskesiu but yesterday we took Highway 263 by Christopher and Emma Lakes and stopped to explore an abandoned Sandy Lake. We took Maggi along and she had a romp around chasing gophers and barked at a deer. After that we drove into a still asleep town of Waskesiu where the only life were some cabin owners and Parks Canada employees and the grocery store. Wendy posted some of the photos we took yesterday.
Because it was at the last minute we decided to go, we didn’t have our iPods charged. We grabbed both of ours. Thinking back to a decade ago, it is a lot easier to grab an iPod than it is to get mix tapes, CDs or even being stuck with bad small town radio stations.
Since it is likely that Wendy and I mine schedules will be keep us from enjoying the weekend during the summer, it will be some Monday trips starting when Mark is out of school. The nice thing is that we should be expecting some empty highways and open roads.
