We took a trip up to Algonquin Provincial Park this weekend. It was originally supposed to be part of our trip up to visit our puppy, but we opted to do that a day early because a snow storm was predicted for the original day. It turned out that it was just some snow flurries with high winds in some areas, so we made the long drive again to have an outdoor adventure at Algonquin. The drive up and back proved to be more difficult that we thought due to the high winds blowing snow and making it very hard to see at times and being slowed down significantly by snowplows (even in areas where there was no snow or ice on the road) and being stuck for a little while in a smaller version of Canada's freedom convoy (a bunch of cars and trucks waving Canadian flags in protest against the government vaccine mandates). But despite the long drive, we are glad we went and had this little adventure.
We often take thermoses full of hot chocolate to help keep the kids warm and motivate them when needed. We re-use hot chocolate cups from Starbucks over and over so that they kids can more easily drink the hot chocolate. This was more of warm-chocolate because it was so cold outside, but it did help warm everyone up a bit.
This slippery part of the trail was probably the kids' favorite part. They played here awhile until we made them move on before everyone froze. We had a lot of fun and it was a beautiful little hike.
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