So.. Thanksgiving is our last camping trip for the year before we winterize the 5th wheel. We were off to Tunkwa Lake again – I think this will be our new tradition.
We probably experienced some of the wrath of Hurricane Oho during this trip. We had a large tent that ended up with bent poles after it came apart from the strong winds. The tent was meant to provide shelter for our potluck Thanksgiving dinner. As you know, Murphy’s Law – we had strong winds and heavy rain at dinner time. Our home on wheels became the buffet cart, families took turns coming in and grabbing their dinner. The wind was so strong that the person coming in had to hold the door open for the person leaving otherwise a slammed door with a plateful of yummy Thanksgiving food would leave quite a messy scene. After dinner Shauna decided to make a Thanksgiving casserole with the leftovers – all the good stuff covered by the mashed potatoes. That was to be our lunch. As luck would have it, the rain stopped after dinner and everyone got together and huddled around the campfire. I thought it was a good time to try a sky lantern… but that didn’t go down too good. The wind picked up every now and then and knocked the sky lantern to the ground – yeah, I’m not for starting a forest fire and losing the shirt on my back so that was the end of that misadventure.
The next day we had lunch together – the leftover Thanksgiving Casserole which was quite yummy. It was good as we all finally sat down together as a group.
Most of the foul weather during this trip happened late in the evening or overnight. This gave us the opportunity for other activities like fishing and hiking. We hiked around Leighton Lake one day, and another day we hiked around Tunkwa Lake – which was quite the unplanned adventure as we had to crawl under barb wire, cross a tiny creek while balancing on a skinny log and rock hopping and not forgetting avoiding the many cow patties.
A good trip for all, especially the kids, a good way to end the year.
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