I Could Happily Live in a Tent

 Last weekend we went camping. One of the more bizarre camping trips, considering everything else that was going on.

The kids still had a good time.......

Sophie made pancakes in the morning.

There was a lot of fishing.

Brian and the kids went to the campgrounds educational show, Soph was an Eagle.

Emma's fish #1

Emma's fish #2

Not a super flattering picture...that's pretty much what I did all weekend though

Friday was crazy hair day at school, Em looks thrilled, no??

There was a lot going on Friday on the drive up to Shasta, including a pretty sunset.

Finally made it to the lake, we got the tent up before it was totally dark.

The kids were able to roast the first night.

Kona's home away from home.

This was Myles home away from home.

Love him!!

Saturday it poured rain for a bit.

This is what your dog will look like if A) he gets ticks and you shave his body down, and/or B) he does not behave at the groomer and they shave his face hair off.

The bridge the kids jumped off last year, the arches they climbed on are under water.

She's wrestling a worm onto her hook.

Myles

How I survived the weekend.

We played quite  a few games of Yahtzee.

Bacon and sausage underneath.

Pancakes and hashbrowns.

It was really too cold for this, but wouldn't be camping w/o a swim.

Since we were only there for 2 dinners, it was hot dogs (not Kona) both nights.

Not sure what Sophie is doing, some sort of fish dance??

Brian w/his spiderman pole.

Kona's travel spot, he does really well in the car.

We have a new ice-cream shop in town, Guanatos, it is super good. Em's is cheese and avocado!

This was date night last night.  We got dropped off in Castle Rock park and made our way up over the foothills back home.

I doubled up on the neck coolers and stayed super cool.

We ended up running down the Mt on the road until we could connect into another trail.

We were looking pretty good to the turkey vultures at this point.

I was pretty sure we were not even on a trail at this point, it was a fire block=cat road of churned up dirt. Pretty sure we wanted to take the single track trail (I was right) but on and up we went, passed the private property/no trespassing signs we go!

Did I say it was steep?? 7 miles, 1800 ft of gain.

This = not a real trail.

No matter, we made it up and over and our house is down there in that neighborhood.

Yes, I got close, but he's just a baby and stretched out, not ready to strike.

I end w/Sophie relaxing in the pool this morning...on our camping bed...in the pool.

 Life is good.