Nothing spectacular, but appearantly the bushbug has bitten my wife too, now... And even my son enjoyed himself (he's usually more into Lego, Star Wars, Xbox, those sort of things...) He didn't even protest or argue once, today!
So, off to the forrest we went. It was a beautiful sunny and warm day with max. temperatures of about freezing with even some thaw in the sun!
By the lake however the wind did make it feel a little chilly sometimes.
We went in quite early, but also had to leave a little earlier than expected, because the unexpectedly thawing snow made the clothing of our youngster wet and she got cold..... And than the fun is over quite quickly!
First a couple of morningwalkpics....
Yes... they were really going!
First time on the ice. Even she had that weird feeling I described in my last thread, when walking on it....
My troop;
And Mss. keeping an eye on us....
The Mss. had some fun while I was preparing the fire....
And our youngster??
Well, she just wrote her name..
We chose an existing place to prepare our food and hot drinks;
The people who used it befor us left a stack of chopped and dried wood under one of the benches, so I used that. I returned the favor by taking down a small birch, chopped that up and left it for the people who come in after us.
I was asked about my tinderbox in my previous thread, so some detailed pictures of it;
It actually is a birchbark covered wooden frame.
Another very first for us: pinbröd or bread on a stick. My wife prepared the dough at home, a basic mix of flour, backing sode, milk, salt, raisins and chopped nuts. And it was good!!!!
First some warm bread.....
and than a good sip of hot chocolatemilk!
An "idyllic" picture....
Me... hungry!!
And a nice cup of coffee, thank you very much....
There were angels here.... honestly!
what can I say....
She just loves to climb rocks! She always finds one, where ever she goes....
So, off to the forrest we went. It was a beautiful sunny and warm day with max. temperatures of about freezing with even some thaw in the sun!
By the lake however the wind did make it feel a little chilly sometimes.
We went in quite early, but also had to leave a little earlier than expected, because the unexpectedly thawing snow made the clothing of our youngster wet and she got cold..... And than the fun is over quite quickly!
First a couple of morningwalkpics....
Yes... they were really going!
First time on the ice. Even she had that weird feeling I described in my last thread, when walking on it....
My troop;
And Mss. keeping an eye on us....
The Mss. had some fun while I was preparing the fire....
And our youngster??
Well, she just wrote her name..
We chose an existing place to prepare our food and hot drinks;
The people who used it befor us left a stack of chopped and dried wood under one of the benches, so I used that. I returned the favor by taking down a small birch, chopped that up and left it for the people who come in after us.
I was asked about my tinderbox in my previous thread, so some detailed pictures of it;
It actually is a birchbark covered wooden frame.
Another very first for us: pinbröd or bread on a stick. My wife prepared the dough at home, a basic mix of flour, backing sode, milk, salt, raisins and chopped nuts. And it was good!!!!
First some warm bread.....
and than a good sip of hot chocolatemilk!
An "idyllic" picture....
Me... hungry!!
And a nice cup of coffee, thank you very much....
There were angels here.... honestly!
what can I say....
She just loves to climb rocks! She always finds one, where ever she goes....
