Finally vacation

Oh. My. God. Finally it's vacation TIME and we can spend some time in the "cottage". As a Sweed it takes some time to adjust to the thought that it is a cottage. For me it is a second home that doesn't remind me of a typical Swedish cottage. This has, according to me, everything. And more. A cottage is more of a smaller, a bit less convenient place to stay. But still you love it!

Some also call it A Camp? My eye browses were almost up in the sky hearing that the first time, trying to understand what it meant.

Enough of that. Back to the Paradise of ours on Wellesley Island!

We arrived yesterday, Friday and crossing the bridge to Wellesley Island just gives me a feeling of something that reminds me when I was a kid visiting my grandmother in Finland. There was this landmark, a special tower, that could be seen just before we arrived to grandmother's house. Like butterflies!

Arriving to the house, our Paradise, and the feeling when opening the door and you feel the special scent of pine, is almost impossible to describe. Aaah! That feeling is very special.

The weather was also perfect. What a great start!

I thought our teenage daughter would jump in to the water when we arrived, but instead she went immediately to her room and crushed into bed. It was a 5 hour drive and when you have a husband/dad that jumps up and down, like he has springs under his feet, at 5 am in the morning to get going, then we all can get a bit tired...just saying.

Well, well, we are here and the nice weather we had when we arrived turned into a storm. I could care less. It is still our Paradise!

This is the bridge to Heaven...sorry, Wellesley Island. 

Lunch on the deck mmmm

After some hours of beauty (?) sleep, the teenager woke up to take a swim.

BOATING!!

Our cottage, camp or house or whatever it is called...The Paradise to us.

I'm glad we came back in time...something is going on behind us!

It's roooolllling in

Getting clozuurrr...

And it is just a gorgeous storm!

Touch ups

Once again, we've been up to our paradise. It was Memorial and therefore an extended weekend. SO nice! The weather was great except one day when we had a storm and more rain. WE DO NOT NEED MORE RAIN!

As many of you probably have read, the St Lawrence River is flooded and lot of home owners are suffering big time. Yes, Lake of the Isle is also record high, but the only "damage" we have is the fire pit being under water. It will hopefully appear by the end of June. To be on the safe side and not missing out on the smores, we have ordered SoloStove fire pit! It is going to arrive in couple of weeks and I am so happy! You can't live without the smores, right?

During the Memorial weekend we changed the bed covers and our daughter suddenly wants an asian look in her room. What happened with the Swedish look? I am not aware of any dragons from Sweden. I have to figure this out.

We also added some clothing racks in two of the bedrooms. I always want to throw/hang up "stuff".

Between cleaning, Jonas went out fishing and was of course caught in a storm! But he managed to take a really great picture between the showers.

Magic evening on the St Lawrence River on the Canadian border - “The Rift”

What a view crossing the bridge to Wellesley Island

Yes, our daughter jumped into the water as soon as we arrived to the "camp"

Hanging out on the deck

Even night views from deck is great

It can't get more relaxing than this...

...until the storm comes

But ah, storms come and go and back to it!

New bead spread, more in my taste

This is our daughter's room, with the Asian touch

Any fish, Mr Olsson?

Memorial Day with Swedish pan cakes and the American flag!

Daughter loves this!

A bass mama watching her eggs