3 nights was enough...

I know you are all dying to know how our internet free vacation went. Well after the first 4 days and three night I would have had to say the score was nature 1 - Jones' 0.

Yep, sadly the cottage experience was not all it was cracked up to be. The cottage was not actually finished being built and so there was no working kitchen just a stove, 40 year old fridge and 3 folding tables in a large empty room. The running water that was located closest to the kitchen would be found in the laundry room down the hall. the furniture was all hideously uncomfortable and the beds were not big enough for 2 adults to sleep together in the same bed which meant Alyn pulled a single mattress in and slept on the floor.

Now please add to this the mice or furry woodland creatures that were nestling in the walls and at night would have scratching festivals to ensure our sleepless nights... and the clincher? I mean the real clincher? The deck and dock, which were lovely, were entirely covered in shade all day long at this time of year! Yep, The trees were so many, and so large, that the shade covered the entire deck every waking moment! So in the shade on the windy deck with the forest mosquitoes we would try to brave it and pretend we were enjoying "vacation".

On day I even swam out to the floating dock to try and get sun. Of course by the time I got there I was freezing and the sun went behind the massive clouds that seemed to haunt our time there. So here I am laying on a floating dock, in the shade, in the wind, every hair on end, freezing and praying for sun, trying to convince myself that this is the life! In the end I abandoned the floating raft when Alyn came and picked me up in the canoe as I could not face getting wet again!

So we left Wednesday after calling Starwood (Westin hotels) and arranging to use almost all of our points for 3 glorious night and 4 glorious days in Ottawa in a 4 star hotel. We walked around the market, the mall, Parliament, swam in the pool and sat in the hot tub and slept well at night in a King size heavenly bed in a junior suite (free upgrade woohoo!) with no woodland creatures scratching near our heads. So the second part of the week? Nature 0 - Jones' 1