It was a weekend of adventures! Thursday afternoon we all headed out for Pennington to stay at Diane and Rod's for a long weekend. We took Christa and Oliver with us in the truck and Amy and her kids followed behind. Of course we had the dogs with us too. We got up there around 7:30. After getting the camper and tents all set up we had a campfire and all went to bed pretty early.
Friday was a beautiful day. The kids all had a great time swimming and fishing and just being outside.
Rick and I decided to go for a bike ride before lunch. We took off down the road and met up with Diane, Linda and Jeannie who had gone for a walk. Diane gave us directions on where we should go. I was sure that I "kind of" remembered the roads and we would be just fine. We wanted to go on the trails/roads and have a little fun on the bikes.
We started our bike trip just a little bit north of Pimushe Resort that is marked on the above map. Diane's place is just a little ways from there. We were just going to make a little loop and then go back. Well are first mistake was to go left instead of right, from there it went down hill. We were having so much fun and just going from trail to trail when we realized that we should have gotten back to the main road already. Then I crashed. Everything was so wet and the roads/trails were full of water holes. I went through one that was deeper and muddier then I thought and sunk like I was in quick sand. And then I went over. I was covered in mud!! It was so funny. Of course neither one of us had brought a camera so you get no pictures. I also hit my handle bars when I went down and now have a bruise the size of a soft ball on my butt. I was going to put a picture of that but Amy said I could not :)
So after I pulled myself out of the mud we kept on going. By then the bug spray I had put on was starting to wear off so every time we stopped we were eaten alive. We finally found the lake again and a cabin. Rick decided to go out to the lake and try and figure out where we were. He also found the cabin owners. Well they took him in the house and showed him a map of the lake and pointed out to us that we were on the other end of the lake about 5 miles from where we should be! Way up on top of the above map. They were showing Rick on the map how to get back and pointing out all the intersections etc when they said it would probable be easier to just take us back by boat. So we took him up on his offer and loaded up the bikes and took a boat ride back.
It was an adventure!
Dexter loved the water! He run out into it right away in the morning and had so much fun. Of course when he was done he did not smell so nice so he got to take a shower in the camper. He was so tired by the end of the night that he could hardly make it up the steps to the camper.
Rick and Liam were super excited to catch some very nice sunfish. Liam spent most of the day out on the paddle boat with Zack, Jacob, and Bradly fishing.
Oliver and Eli loved the water just about as much as Dexter. They spent all day playing in it.
Oliver was all excited to go fishing with Grandpa so Rick and Mitch took him out. They were out for about 5 minutes when Oliver had a fit and wanted to come back in. So that was the end of his fishing.
Rick also took Liam and Josie out right away in the morning. They made it about a hour and then Josie threw her pole in the lake while casting. Rick said after a big sad cry she was jsut fine. She came back and spent the day in the water with the rest of the kids.
After a fun filled day we all sat around the campfire and may have had a few treats....
It was a good thing we spent all day Friday in the sun because from then on it rained and rained. We spend Saturday just hanging around playing games and trying to keep the kids busy. The boys did some more fishing and we got to be outside when the rain stopped. Diane had a fish fry for us on Saturday night. It was soooooo good. We all ate way to much! Amy was going to leave on Sunday morning but after watching the weather and seeing that it was going to be raining buckets in the morning she decided to pack up on Saturday night and drive home. It was a smart move on her part because it rained most of the day Sunday. It would have been no fun to pack up a tent in the poring rain. She got home with here 3 sleeping children around 1:30 in the morning.
So what do you do when it is raining and you are camping....you go bowling! I don't know who's idea it was but it was a good one. We all drove into Bemidji and bowled a couple of games. Even Grandma and Grandpa bowled. Mom said it had been at least 30 years since the last time she bowled.
Oliver had lot of fun too.
After all the rain the lake was overflowing! The dock was almost under water and the lake was making it's way up the shore.
CJ loved Morgan and Morgan loved CJ. I am pretty sure she would have gone with him home if I had let her.
By Sunday night Dexter had also had enough of the rain.
Even the fire pit was full of water. We did manage to get a fire started again but then it of course it started to rain again. So after supper Christa, Oliver, Rick and I went down to the camper for one more game and then went to bed.
I think these pictures of Oliver and Eli are super cute. I can't take credit for them since Christa took them.
Monday morning we woke up to a beautiful sunny day. Of course we had to go home. We were worried about getting the camper up the hill with all the rain but we got it out with no troubles. We were on our way back home around 8:30.
We just got home and got most of the camper unpacked when the storms hit. I will have pictures of the damage in my next post.
Even with all the rain we had a wonderful trip! It was fun to be with everyone when it was not a holiday and just relax. I even had fun getting lost in the woods crashing my bike. I now have a great story to tell.....
Sharon
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