Snail mail is wonderful!

A wonderful surprise for Val arrived in snail mail on Monday: a hand-drawn card from my nephews, Max and Sam, who live in Calgary. They sent this picture of us, The Wilderness Aunties**, in a canoe: one of us is wearing a Winnipeg Jets cap, the other a Winnipeg Blue Bombers jersey. I think it must be Val in the stern, don't you? I am surely up front, receiving the orders to switch (paddling) sides on command. Meanwhile, in the background, note the bear standing on our car (a Subaru), "but don't worry," says Max, "it's a friendly bear!" Thank you, Max and Sam. It was a big treat to get a home-made piece of art in the mail. xo 
** The boys' mother, my sister-in-law, Lisa, first met us at our cottage; hence the moniker.