as close to camping as I get...

Over the July 4th holiday, we took a few days to visit our bestest friends, Dana and Everrett at the boy scout camp where they live..since he is the camp ranger.  We had a lot of fun and good times and was sad to leave as usual.  We got a great tour of the camp (it's new, and since thanksgiving there has been A LOT of work done.) And it looks amazing!  It was fun.  Here are a few of the photos. Enjoy.

On a spider monkey bridge thingee..

Even I did it! What a fun activities for scouts!

Kody finished crossing too!

One of the evenings sitting on the swim dock. Enjoying the sounds of nature.

Peter-Leo just chilling on the dock... he was tired of photography.

One afternoon Kody and I took a boat out on the lake,
she was thrilled to reach the other side of the lake!!

This was a most beautiful harvest moon!

Fun in the dark... with blacklight and glow water!

This is our second attempt at glow water and blacklight... thankfully it was a huge success!! All I did was purchase a larger blacklight. And blam! It worked soo well!!

 Kody and Peter-Leo pouring in the glow water into their pans.  The colors were so cool with the blacklight.  They had so much fun.

 Pouring in the orange glow water... it was cool.

Then they started mixing things up!

This is one of my favorite photos, you can actually see the separation between the orange and green water.

Dripping the green glow water into mini clear glasses.

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Michelle



Beach...again..

These photos are from mid-June.  A few days after a massive week of thunderstorms and such, hence all the seaweed along the shore that you see in the photo below.  We literally had to clear a spot on the beach to set up our sun tent.

The kids played on one of the clearer spots of the beach while I set up the sun tent.

My sand castle MASTERPIECE! muhahahaha!!

Peter-Leo spent some of his time on shore building this "bridge" complete with sand car on the bridge. He even poured water under it to show us it was "stable."

I just about had the wave, but I started kicking too soon. Oh well it was still fun!

 Boogie boarding is a blast!

I would post more photos, but sadly they all kind of look the same as any of the previous beach photos!

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Michelle