Cookout!

Well yesterday was Sunday and our Sundays are usually pretty low key, but this Sunday seemed to be pretty busy. Our morning started off with me sleeping in until 10, which was really nice. Then Greg and I went across the road to Jon and Jills for a brunch potluck. We then came home and I slept for two hours (I have seemed to be very tired lately).

Vicky the Native Language teacher then came over to invite us to a cookout at Little Bear Beach. We went and had a great time. The weather was super nice yesterday, a change from the weather we have been having (rainy, snowy and gloomy). Greg, Jon, Jill, Vicky, Marianne (Vicky's sister-in-law) and I all enjoyed the cook out.

When we got there Marianne and her husband Amos were on the ice checking their net for fish. The edge of the lake is not frozen anymore, so to get on the ice you have to jump over open water to get to the solid stuff. Amos had been there for a while and had managed to shoot down a duck. When I first saw it, I thought it was fake because of how rubbery its feet looked. After we finished cooking Marianne showed us how to prepare a duck for cooking. She plucked the duck of its big feathers and then to get the little feathers off you burn it in a fire and then hit it with evergreen branches. It was really neat to see.

Enjoy some of our pictures below of our adventure yesterday.

Jon and Greg cooking potatoes and pork chops over the fire. Marianne did most of the cooking, but the guys finished it up. It was so good!
Greg and I standing by the lake.
Greg going on to the ice. Leave it to him to want to try and walk on the melting ice. He managed to get on and then walked around for awhile.

Greg holding a piece of the ice that has melted away. The ice is still about a foot thick but it is full of air bubbles.