Lake and Goats and Cheese and Salmon!

 Hello!!!! Guess where we are??? We are at the lake!!! And guess who is with us today??

Otto and Rose!!! We are going to go paddleboarding! Well... the humans are... and maybe Otto. There is waaaayyyyy too much tipping over on the paddleboard!

It's so pretty here! 

Ahhhh... this is the life...

Navy Beanie has never been to a lake like this! I guess they didn't have big lakes on Mouse Island. He wanted to take control of the paddleboard but... it's hard to paddle with short little arms...

See... out there... there's a paddleboard with heads in the water next to it... the humans fell off again!

Alright... now for the real adventure!! We are at Goats on the Roof!!! Why are we here? Because the Old Country Market has....

A truly amazing selection of cheeses!!!

Navy is a bit stunned... so this visit might take a while...

This is a Salt Spring Island goat cheese... beary good!!

Sooooo many options!!!

Navy Beanie has been quite deprived during his sojourn on the seashore you know... ate nothing but seaweed (gross).

There's lots of British cheeses here...

But not only that... they have a fresh bakery section!!!

With Bear Claws!!!

And Chocolate Croissants!!!

So mmannyyyy choices!!! OK... we have to pick something!!! Navy chose the Juliette brie cheese from Salt Spring. Excellent choice...

And I chose some smoked salmon nuggets...

So many options!!!!

Yum!!!!

Oh... Single Malt Whiskey Cheese... seems to be popular...

Chocolate Fudge Cheese??? Not so popular...

Sometimes... too many choices is not a good thing!! Navy Beanie is wondering if he's made the right choice! Enough!! Let's get out of here!!

"Pssst... just wanted to say... Cocoa... if you're reading this... they have..."

Fresh Cheese bread!!!!!

"OMG!!!"

Right then... we are home and... eating... in no particular order... some mint chocolate chip ice cream... cause we're hot and sweaty!

And then a chocolate croissant... yummers!

It was beary good... but maybe next time we'll get two!

And then Navy had some brie on cheesebread... yum!!!

Soooo very good!

And yes... I had some smoked salmon nuggets!!!!

A Beary Special Visitor!!

 Oh, hullo!!! Today I am super excited to introduce you to a beary special visitor!!! Are you ready?? (And no, it's NOT Otto the Otter!!)...

Ta-dah!!!! Meet Kiwi the Dragon!!!!

Kiwi is beary excited to be here for a brief visit... we hope she'll come back later in the summer again!

And yes... Kiwi came over from Vancouver with Rose!!!

Oh... have you met the rest of the Dragon's brood... wait... what is a gaggle of dragons called? OMG!!! How appropriate!!! OK... you know how a group of mice is called a Mischief of Mice (beary appropriate if I do say so myself)... and a group of bears is called a Sleuth of Bears (Sherlock Sandy approves)... well... wait for it... a group of dragons is called.... a Thunder of Dragons!!! What a COOL name!!! Anyhow... That's Salsa the Dragon (red one obviously) and Guac (Guacamole) the Dragon...

So... we left the Thunder of Dragons at home... cause we were going somewhere watery (dragons aren't into water)... and they happily stayed at home doing what dragons do...

Meanwhile we headed for Coombs!! We stopped at Coombstock... cause they have cool pins and things...

 

 

And of course we stopped at Goats on the Roof... you see why taking dragons on this trip might have ended badly...

Goats on a roof are PRIME targets for hungry dragons...

And we ended up here!!! Oh... and look who snuck along for the trip as well!! Otto! (You just knew Otto was going to make an appearance, eh?)

Ahhhhh... such a beautiful lake...

But before paddle-boarding happens... we all need a snack! Oh... I forgot...

DROOL ALERT!!!

Right then... here we go... open the box and... we got this at Coombs!

It is a MASSIVE cinnamon bun with extra icing and...

It was scrumptious!!! And yes... we are bringing some back for the dragons...

Right then... paddle-boarding!!!

**** hours later****
And sunbathing for exhausted stuffies!!

Paddleboarding Adventures

 Sooo... here we are... in the middle of the lake. Well... pretty close. And Otto wants to introduce us to paddleboarding.

Cocoa and I are less than enthusiastic about yet another water sport... particularly after the Stuffie Olympics waterfall barreling adventure...

But he says paddleboarding is fun... uh-huh... 

Oh dear... here we go... 

Righto - everyone is on board but... this thing is beary wobbly!! We were watching Rose and Mama practice and they ended up in the drink more often than not. Rose kept saying that Mama was tipping them over but... Mama would never do such a thing... would she? Nooooooo...

OK... where are we going? Are we going anywhere? Mama said that she could get on the paddleboard and take us places but all three of us gave her a loud, resounding "NO!"...

We'll just sit here and drift nicely... although Otto did say we should sit more in the middle as that helps the board be less tippy...

OK... middle of the board...

We paddled around a little bit in the shallows but decided that this was not for us. Let Rose take over again!