Let’s get physical! is this weeks Beauty Detox blog assignment and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Actually since I started blogging with The Beauty Detox community all the assignments seem to come at the perfect time for me. When I contemplated whether I would blog or not I knew that if I did I would always make sure to come from a place of inspiration, since that moment I decided to blog that is exactly what has been happening and I couldn’t be more thankful!
Taking a moment to talk with the trees.
For me getting physical is an everyday thing when you are running around after 3 young children. On this particular weekend when this assignment came out it was my birthday weekend and my husband surprised me with a 2 night stay at a yurt in one of the provincial parks close by.
This is me with our camping gear at the yurt.
We stayed at yurt # 3 on my 33rd birthday, oh did I mention I love numerology and this spoke mountains to me.
The yurt is located in one of the 15 provincial parks here in Manitoba, it has a nice beach and a ton of hiking trails. The one thing I love the most is a getaway into the wild where I can reconnect with nature. To help me remember my journey is alive and important.
The province of Manitoba and the 15 provincial parks, we were at #13 Spruce Woods.
It has been a very busy summer of activities with the kids but this one was for me and it all couldn’t have come at a better time. My birthday, an almost full moon and summer is officially over and the routine of school has once again commenced, meaning the parks would be empty and so quiet that you could feel like you owned the place.
Sunset walk on Isputinaw trail, 1.4km.
On our drive and for 3 days previous it had been raining and cold. It was an hour and a half drive to the yurt and by the time we arrived the clouds had started to clear and it even slightly warmed up, the weather just got better with each passing day. On our first evening there we went on a sunset hike and cooked our supper over the fire. My husband is completely on board with BDS. We had quinoa and vegetables stuffed in a Japanese pumpkin cooked over the fire.
Quinoa and vegetables stuffed in a Japanese pumpkin and cooked over the fire.
On our second day we went for a hike at Spirit Sands to the Devil’s punch bowl, it is a 7km hike through sand dunes and prairies and forest. It is truly quite amazing to see so many different terrains in one area. We saw many animals on our hike which represent different messages for me. I love following a book by Ted Andrews called Animal Speak. At the start of our walk we saw a garder snake so we picked him up and took a selfie.
Snake selfie!
I love this place, it has such calm energies.
We also saw a rare skink lizard, it is so small and quick it is amazing one even sees them at all. I have been coming to Spruce Woods for over 15 years and it was the first time I had ever seen one of these lizards. Actually we saw 2 and the second one let us spend time with him so I snapped a picture.
The skink lizard. He is about 2″ from mouth to tail. It is amazing to have spent time with him, he was curious and kind.
At one point when we were crossing the prairies these clouds rolled through in front of us and the thunder roared. Boy did it feel electrifying, like the clouds were talking to us.
Clouds passing through on our hike at Spirit Sands.
At the Devil’d punch bowl. My husband takes great photos.
Later that night we went on a 4 km moonlit walk through the woods and it was the highlight of my whole trip. My husband is a long distance truck driver so spending this kind of time wit him is priceless when we have so little time at this moment in our lives.
The moon and on the right is light from the yurt.
The next morning it was my birthday and it was time to pack up and leave, but first we eat cake! I will not divulge what kind teehee. After we finished eating cake I was ready to leave and go home to the 3 little loves and more awaiting my return. At the end of my short journey I felt reconnected, re balanced and relaxed as if I had just come from a spa. After supper with my beautiful family, the house was settled and quiet again and there was one last thing I enjoy doing when I come home from camping. Take a nice shower with a long hot bath with my favorite ingredients to soak in and my favorite mask. This night is organic Hawaiian mud mask. Yum!
I tried to smile for the camera but it doesn’t work well with dried mud on your face.
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