Family Camping: Day 2

 Tuesday morning we woke up around 6 am to take the girls to go potty so they wouldn't have an accident. Unfortunately they never went back to sleep. We were at least able to lay in bed for another hour even though they were chatting away. We ate breakfast sandwiches that morning which consisted of English muffins, fried egg, sausage and cheese. They were yummy! This time we used the stand up fire stove there at the campsite because our grill was too small to cook more than one thing at a time. Well, we still used the gas grill for frying eggs and the fire stove we used for cooking the sausage and heating up the English muffins and water.

Playing some ladder ball after breakfast.

After cleaning up from breakfast we had to decide whether to go on a walk first or go ahead and head to the beach. Nikki was wise and told us we should go to the beach early to get a spot before other people come. So we packed up our stuff and drove across the lake to Boulder Creek Day use area, which is close to my grandparent's old cabin. There are a couple of beaches on this peninsula. There's the one by the boat ramp and then another on the opposite side. We went to the one on the opposite side. What an awesome sight to see such a big beach and only two kids were there when we arrived, a brother and sister about Garrett's and Jack's ages. They invited our boys to play marco polo. While they did that Nikki, Alice and I went on a beach walk to go see my grandparent's old cabin and beach area. I saw that the new owners have a new dock that is T shaped with a nice motor boat parked on one side and a canoe on the other. The sprinklers were going in the back yard so I didn't get a good look but it seems like the new owners are taking good care of the property.

After about an hour or so the two kids said they needed to leave. They were staying with their grandparents. We then had the entire beach to ourselves for about 3 hours. A little before we left a lady showed up with her two dogs. Then when we were packing up our truck after we were done we saw several more cars in the parking lot and people getting out and heading to the same beach. I'm so glad we listened to Nikki and went early. Who knows how many more people came after that. The weather was plenty warm even at 10:30 am when we arrived and was just beautiful the whole time. We had planned to eat hot dogs for lunch but ended up eating leftovers from breakfast and yesterday's dinner and whatever we had in our cooler. It was nice to just eat by the back of the truck and head back down to the beach. We left around 2:30.

After our day at the beach we went to Ice Cream Alley in McCall. They required masks and not all of us had one so I went around with the 3 youngest kids and waited out on the main street.

We were all getting pretty tired but still wanted to go to Ponderosa State Park and at least drive around to see the scenery. When we got to the highest point a few of us got out to look around while the others waited in the truck. It's such a beautiful place!

Then it was back to camp to cook up tin foil dinners because it just isn't camping if we don't have these for one of our dinners.

And then relaxing by the fire. I didn't get a picture but we did do a different type of s'more that was a little easier. We roasted marshmallows and then put it between two Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies. Not bad but I prefer the regular way better.

Charlotte had found this hair elastic in the lake while swimming. It was double banded and looked like a bracelet to her so that's what she decided it was. Unfortunately she lost her favorite pink goggles while swimming.

Enjoying our tin foil dinners.