Government Shutdown, day 31. Since the Voyageurs National Park Association has been paying to open the Rainy Lake Visitor Center for the past few weekends, I haven't had any mutual days off with Sierra. Today, being the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, I finally had a day off with my daughter. Noelle, Sierra and I decided to take advantage of it with a day of skiing.
Originally, we were going to go down to Grand Rapids to ski a trail in that area and go grocery shopping at Aldi. It's difficult to justify a 2.5 hour drive and all the associated gasoline when you haven't gotten paid in 3 weeks and you don't know when you're going to get paid next. Instead we opted to stay closer to home with a trip across the border to the 8th Street Trails in Fort Frances. Since we had some Canadian cash on hand, we figured we could even justify going out to eat for the first time this year. We wouldn't be dipping into our bank account for a meal.
It was a quick drive to the trailhead and then we hit the trails.
I really enjoyed skiing there.
We did the first 2 loops. Sierra was a little bit disappointed that there weren't any hills, but the trail itself was narrow and wound through an interesting landscape.
A good portion of the trails meandered through a boggy wetland that we had hiked back in the fall of 2016.
Altogether we skied about 3 kilometers. It was just the right length for Sierra.
It was pretty obvious that she was starting to get a bit tired towards the end, and she kept falling. After getting back into the car we drove over to DQ for our Canadian lunch and then back into the Falls to relax a bit before dinner.
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