First Campout of the Season

Hello Summer and welcome to the camping season!  We started out the weekend before school got out and headed up north to Steamboat Rock State Park. What a beautiful area! Right on Banks Lake.

 Ha! We made it! Don't they look proud? We started out Saturday morning climbing up Steamboat Rock, we weren't very well prepared, but the kids were troopers and we made it about 75% of the way up.  They climbed like mountain goats over rocks and through sage brush.

This spot on the way down the kids thought was a great place to take pictures, so we obliged.

Some parts got a little steep so on the way down the kids discovered the easiest and most funnest way was to slide on the bum.

 I found this idea in a magazine and it's a keeper. When camping take along a package of googly eyes and some white glue, instant craft and the possibilities are endless. This is Greyson's dog, see the ears glued to the top? There was also a tail on the back. Of course when dad's are allowed to play this might happen as well.

After climbing up rocks in the morning and playing in the lake most of the afternoon we were all pretty tuckered out, tired enough to sleep like this in the shade of a nearby tree.

 

Looks pretty comfy doesn't it? Oh yeah this is the life! What a way to start the summer!