Camping trip

the last couple of summers we wanted to go camping. the older children we took camping quite often, but the younger ones have missed out and have never been camping.

So i decided instead of waiting for a time when we could all go and get out of town, I would just take the children somewhere local, so rick could come after work. we drove about 25 miles up the reservoir to a nice camp ground. I didn't want to ruff it too much. we got there in the afternoon and all the children set up the tents. we had Kendra and Lynette with us too. It was so much fun.

after we got all set up we went down to the "beach". It actually has sand ! but the water was low, and so we went to the deeper water so it was fresh. we jumped in and the cold took my breath away. but you get used to it. It's really weird how you hit spots that were as warm as a bath tub, then a wave as cold as ice water. I swam for a whole hour or more. It was so beautiful water as far as you can see, with beautiful mountains surrounding the water. I didn't see a person or a boat in sight.

we spent 3 days eating smores, smores and more smores. sausages, hamburgers, hat dogs and more smores!! I don't think we ate very healthy the whole time. I read Bruchko to them, they played games, and the boys fished. They caught about 27 fish and loved it!

Well after 3 days we were talking of going home. when suddenly a storm came up. I heard a huge tree snap and the wind was blowing hard. It was scary with out any cover. we started packing up as fast as we could. we finally got packed up and squished in the car, down the road a few miles and there was a tree in the road. The van could almost make it under the one side but the branches would scratch the car. We found a sharp butter knife and Jon and Mark started cutting branches with it, while we laughed at cutting a tree out of the road with a butter knife. It actually worked and we made it through.

So our camping trip was so much fun. No bears attacked, in fact we didn't even see a deer. It's funny because we see many deer everyday around our house, but we go way out camping and didn't see one.

Hopefully I'll figure out how to put some pictures in here too.