Heading to the Lake

When I was a kid, our family would always head to Shuswap Lake for the last week of August. Granny and Grandpa had a time share at St Ives and we would join them for a week of fun on the lake.

This was in 2009 - the last time we went to Shuswap

There was no tv, and if anyone wanted to make a call, they had to go to the pay phone down by the resort office. Needless to say, the closest decent grocery store was an hours drive away so we had to bring most of our food. Granny would bake up a storm for ages beforehand and come laden with homemade bread, cookies, pies and cakes.

Granny and her crew - Sean is missing because I don't think he was even a twinkle yet

I have become my grandmother.
We are going to Lakes Entrance for a few days of tech-free adventuring and I have just spent the last 5 hours in the kitchen mixing, rolling and baking. I've made tortillas, muffins, cookies, croissants and lemon curd. (BTW, where had lemon curd been all my life? Only 4 ingredients and you can whip it up in no time. I could eat it by the bucketful).
I have no idea how we are going to fit all the food, coolers, backpacks, wetsuits and four humans into the Echo. We're trying to pack for all eventualities because you never know what the weather might bring in these parts. Yesterday was gorgeous and sunny but the day before gave us gale force winds, hail and flash floods. I'm sure the plague of frogs and storm of locusts will be coming soon.

Monday night on Victoria Street up in the city (photo credit: The Age)