One Fine Day

This past weekend was like a dream come true- spring weather in November! (much nicer than next weekends predicted rain- not that I am dying inside at the thought of it).

So after a mega morning sleep-in on Saturday and a delicious Boom breakfast with my man, we picked up some friends and headed out of town to enjoy the day.

Finding people who you like to hike with is a challenge unto itself. Like vacationing, you need to be able to really get along through the course of your adventure and while I love all my friends, I would take few on vaca with me, and maybe fewer to Georgetown Ontario to hike it up. (Did you like what I just did there? Hike it up... Making hiking cool since 1999).

BUT, to our fortune, we have been blessed (yes, blessed) to have 2 friends who we love to do everything with, (less watch pseudo porn all together on the couch at the end of a long night- that happened. It was as awkward as it sounds).

The 4 of us have hit up a lot of paths together in our time..... geez is there any way for me to write this without sounding SO lame?

Anyways, they are moving to a new country (fine, it is only the US, but it feels far and scary) so we decided to take hem to our special spot that I discovered a few years back on the Bruce Trails.

Tucked away off a long long road and in a baseball diamond is a path that leads to a good hour trail that passes amazing rocks and caves as well as remnants from when the area was a Mill so it is basically amazing.
It was like Choose Your Own Adventure- but in rocks....
and our adventure was epic.

So, what is a requirement about your hiking friends? like I was saying before, is that they be good shit. My fiance and I once travelled with friends who we LOVED. I don't think we ever used the word LOVE about them again after said trip. Nothing went wrong but it also wasn't right and subsequently, I think we secretly hated them both.

So the first thing I need in a hike mate is good conversation, and then- just to confuse you, I need someone who knows when to shut the fuck up and enjoy nature. You must also have a plethora of random facts about flora and fauna, specifically Canadian.
To much to ask? You wouldn't believe. But our adventure duo partners in crime are the fucking bomb. I would seriously go for months of travel with these 2. So low maintenance and lots of environmental knowledge to share. (Don't leave us).

After spelunking around the caves (we totes didn't speluk, I just like that word) we headed home to keep the good times rolling ( I have given up trying to sound cool here ok?).

Did you know that if you go to the Market late in the day they just give you shit for free?
Like bones. Animal bones. For soups. And sword-fights.
and then all the little grocery store people offer you fruit and veg for a dollar- AND, you can haggle the seafood people. Pretty sure we bought enough seafood to feed 10 and about 25 too many octopus tentacles. 20 bucks, all in.
We made an amazing seafood bouillabaisse, stuffed our faces with cured meats.

Moral of the story- make friends you can hike with.
Amen.