Call us crazy but we attempted and successfully managed an early summer camping trip to a nearby mountain lake with our dear friends Sarah and Rutherford. Sarah and I cooked up this evil little plan and Brian and Ruddy just let us go with it. After hours of pinterest planning and late phone calls comparing notes of food and supplies we headed out. Brian (of course) couldn't come up until late Saturday after work but we managed to set up camp and get the fun well underway before he arrived. It was a blast of a weekend albeit a little scorching in the heat but their boat helped cool us all off during the days. We pretty much stayed out all day long Saturday and Sunday until we just dropped from exhaustion. They brought out the taco to pull behind the boat and that was a huge hit to the little people. The kids enjoyed a lot of new freedom in the campsite as we were so in the middle of no where that we let them wander off to find their own fun feeling safe in our natural surroundings. The lake had very few boats on it so every time we'd get too hot or just needed to wash the cheezy poof residue off our hands we'd just drop anchor and all jump in. We must have spent at least a couple hours backed into a cove just relaxing on noodles and letting the kids swim like wild fish. It was a beautiful lake and we hope to do it again some day. The 2 families got along great and let me tell you, a 90 degree weekend in a tent site next to friends will test how true that friendship is! We did great and stunk like skunks when we headed home Sunday night. Good times.
