Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!~Anonymous
We attended our second annual Winter Family Camp this year. Last year we had a wonderful time enjoying balmy weather and sticky snow.
This year MrPages and I cringed as we watched the weather forecast. The highs for the weekend were not expected to climb above -28C. They were predicting lows in the -40C’s.
We warned the children before leaving that it was going to be cold…colder than anything they had ever experienced and that we would probably just hang out in the lodge playing board games. We freely admitted to be winter wimps.
We had a wonderful time, although the camp thermometer didn’t even register the temperature because it was so cold!
We played some of our favourite board games – Carcassonne, Bohnanza, chess, checkers, Scattergories, Apples to Apples and KinderBunnies.
Best of all, we actually went outside!
We got in some skating, a good game of broom ball, lots of sledding and two cross country skiing trails.
And we did it all in -35C weather.
It was beautiful. The sun shining brilliantly on the winter white snow. The children’s breath curling in rings around their heads. The hoar frost collecting on eyelashes and hats. The sound of laughter echoing miles in the brittle air. The complete quietness that surrounded us in the back bush, where no living thing, save us, dared to move in the arctic air.
Mother Nature is beautiful, even in the harshness of the cold frigid winter.
“In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
- Albert Camus
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