Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The fastest Ros and I have ever showered


West Hawk Lake was having some construction done on their roads so driving the trailer in there was a little nerve wracking. Luckily as part of our deal, I’ve mandated that I will never drive the truck with the trailer attached so there is no expectation that I will ever be required to do that –whew-.  When we pulled up to the campground, Rosy was itching to go play on the playground and Charlotte was starting to sound the alarm so us girls left the men to park and level the trailer while we stretched our legs. Rosy and Grandma played at the park while I fed Charlotte on the bench and then we went back to the trailer for some supper of super yummy butter chicken. Papa decided to get some more kilometres in so took off for a couple hours before it got dark.

Getting Rosalin to bed is quite the chore with her napping most days, sometimes twice and no real bed or bedtime. With us changing time zones a few times and her bed being a folded down kitchen table it is a little tricky. Usually we put her to bed in the parents little bedroom and then once they’re ready to go down, we make up her bed and carry her out to the kitchen.

The next morning the parents took off riding their bikes and Spencer and I decided to shower the family up. The shower took quarters up to toonies for 45 seconds to 6 minutes respectively. I took a dollar seventy five and Rosalin to the shower house and tried to get a game plan together for how to shower the cheapest. I got out our shampoo and got us all ready and put in the 25 cents for our first 45 seconds of water. After dousing ourselves as quickly as we could the water clicked off and we shampooed and soaped up without the water running. The shower was a family shower so was quite big and once I put in our next dollar, Rosalin was running in and out of the water stream while I was trying to rinse us all off before our three minutes ran out. I got both of us rinsed, my hair conditioned, and rinsed out before the time cut off. So, in three minutes and 45 seconds I showered myself and Rosalin and it only cost me a buck and a quarter! While we were getting dressed we heard an emergency vehicle siren blaring and it wounded quite close, we finished getting dressed and went back to the trailer and Spencer said that it was a boat that loaded in to the lake lightning fast and zoomed off, makes me wonder what was going on, kinda interesting.

That morning we packed up the trailer with no particular rush before heading off towards Kenora.




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