Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Pike Lake

We took the trailer a whopping 40 kilometres down the road for 2 weeks of camping fun and had an absolute blast!!  Pete was able to commute to and from work on his bike most days, which gave him a small semblance of being on vacation.  The kids were enrolled in swimming lessons which kicked off our days every morning.  The rest of the days were filled with beach time, mini-golf, bike rides, park visits, mini-golf, Olympics-watching, more pool time, and oh did I mention mini-golf??!??!  Ethan's mood was entirely dependent on how many mini-golf games he played on any given day and he thankfully showed incredible maturity, responsibility and independence which we were able to reward with trips by himself to the campground course.  We had fellow camping friends with us both weeks and were grateful that they have equipped their trailers with televisions so we even managed to catch some of the Olympics at fireside in the evenings. Here are a bunch of pictures in no particular order:

Homemade chocolate waffles with ice cream (camping with trailers is seriously luxurious)!!

Leah assisting in Zoey and Darby's transformations into sand mermaids

On a hike with Mom

Stopping for a drink of water

Ethan proudly showing his much-coveted "free pass" from ringing the bell on the last mini golf hole (this was seriously a 2-week effort which finally paid off)

Erin, Darby and Ethan at the private beach we discovered our 2nd week

At "our" beach

Josh, Ethan and Megan

Stu, Leah and Nicky

Josh's sand castle

Ethan and Erin at mini-golf

Our awesome outdoor Olympics set up

Leah, Ethan and Josh

Leah climbing the sand dune

"Mr. Mini-Golf" (he now designs courses on paper and brings them to life on the beach or in the backyard)

Leah washing her pink ball

Morning swimming lessons

Leah enjoying her ice cream cone at Crickle Creek

Linda, Darby and Zoey at Crickle Creek

Our non-ice-cream-lovin' Josh

Participating in the organized campground games

Darby, Ethan and Zoey

Jen and Leah during one of our nightly swims

Helping Leah on hole 18

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