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Back from interior camping up in the wilds of Northern Ontario! The trip was great, got a lot of swimming and paddling in, looking at the amazing Canadian-Shield/glacier-carved mountains of the landscape... There weren't even any mosquitos! Everything was wonderful, until my baby cousin (who is sixteen and brought his girlfriend along on the trip, so he's not ACTUALLY a baby anymore. Which is sometimes disconcerting.) fell off a mountain and badly sprained his ankle. We climbed him back down the mountain the fastest way possible, which was sometimes nearly straight down and we had to slide, and packed up the next morning, paddled out, and drove into Sudbury.
Where he and my uncle waited SIX HOURS, after which they gave up and went to the hotel, having still not even seen a doctor. (You hear a lot about how terrible health care is in the north, but it becomes more real when you see it yourself.) So it could theoretically be broken, we never did get an x-ray done, but he was limping on it without pain so it's probably just a sprain. Hopefully. (If he'd fallen just a meter to the left, he'd have smashed his head, so we're all very grateful it was just an ankle.)
Anyway because I got in early (yesterday afternoon instead of the middle of last night) I got to go to a family reunion on my dad's side, where I don't really know anybody. Actually, half the people there were my dad's cousin's cousins on the other side, so they didn't know HIM, let alone me. Had to have been at least forty people there. Pretty impressive, since basically all of them live outside of Toronto... There's a wedding tonight, to which I (and all the people around my age, who I don't actually know) am not invited. So tonight I can sit at home by myself and watch movies, bake cookies, sit at the computer, have a bubble bath... All the things I couldn't do in the woods.
Back from interior camping up in the wilds of Northern Ontario! The trip was great, got a lot of swimming and paddling in, looking at the amazing Canadian-Shield/glacier-carved mountains of the landscape... There weren't even any mosquitos! Everything was wonderful, until my baby cousin (who is sixteen and brought his girlfriend along on the trip, so he's not ACTUALLY a baby anymore. Which is sometimes disconcerting.) fell off a mountain and badly sprained his ankle. We climbed him back down the mountain the fastest way possible, which was sometimes nearly straight down and we had to slide, and packed up the next morning, paddled out, and drove into Sudbury.
Where he and my uncle waited SIX HOURS, after which they gave up and went to the hotel, having still not even seen a doctor. (You hear a lot about how terrible health care is in the north, but it becomes more real when you see it yourself.) So it could theoretically be broken, we never did get an x-ray done, but he was limping on it without pain so it's probably just a sprain. Hopefully. (If he'd fallen just a meter to the left, he'd have smashed his head, so we're all very grateful it was just an ankle.)
Anyway because I got in early (yesterday afternoon instead of the middle of last night) I got to go to a family reunion on my dad's side, where I don't really know anybody. Actually, half the people there were my dad's cousin's cousins on the other side, so they didn't know HIM, let alone me. Had to have been at least forty people there. Pretty impressive, since basically all of them live outside of Toronto... There's a wedding tonight, to which I (and all the people around my age, who I don't actually know) am not invited. So tonight I can sit at home by myself and watch movies, bake cookies, sit at the computer, have a bubble bath... All the things I couldn't do in the woods.
