Weekend of 12-14 September

I went away for the weekend for the first time since Sarah was born a couple of weekends ago. No - I didn't go the spa with my girlfriends...I went on exercise with the Navy. I made a bit of money instead of spending it. Actually - it all went well. I was busy enough that I didn't think about Sarah and Dale too much and they did just fine without me.

They went to the annual base fall fair where Sarah went on a pony ride, went fishing (and caught a snake) and was given a firefighter's hat.

The exercise that I went on was Chippawa's annual September one. I didn't go last year because I was still nursing Sarah. The exercise was held at Falcon Lake which is near the border with Ontario in a provincial park.

I took a few pictures early in the morning on Saturday before we got started.

We had a crazy thunderstorm in the afternoon on Saturday and everyone had to come back in off the water. We had a few close calls - one or two people felt the static electricity run through them. Here's a picture of the divers coming back in to shore.

My boss, the XO, decided to take a boat out to see what the divers were doing...here he is.