Our Visit to The Lodge
As a child, I always looked forward to summer vacation. Especially the last week of July and first week of August - it was our annual visit to the Lodge located on Balsam Lake. I made lots of friends there, spent my days swimming, causing trouble and our evenings around the campfire and family dances. As I entered my teens, we stopped going - which was disappointing but it wasn't a cheap family vacation for us to go on. Fast forward to July 2008 - guess where we took the children for a week? It's under new management which is bittersweet, I grew up with the MacDonald's as owners, who never forgot the time "little Leanne went missing - everyone dropped what they were doing and looked for you..." while I was fine, just in another suite with the door closed, they never let me forget what a handful I was! So we loaded up the van, loaded up Poppa's van and headed off early one Saturday morning. We spent the week swimming, playing in the sand, relaxing in the whi...