BEAR LAKE

Well we finally went on a camping trip that lasted longer than one night. We went to Bear Lake with the Vela's (Jam,Mike,Zoie and Joshua). We got to help them test their new trailer which was lots of fun. We stayed up St. Charles canyon in the Porcupine campground, it's was really nice and well kept. The first day we didn't get up there until about 5pm so we got set up, cooked our hobo dinners and went to bed. We all decided that we are old and lame. The second day we went down to the beach, the kids had a blast! Christy, Skye and Wynter joined us that day and night. They had lots of fun burying each other in the sand, building castles and digging holes.

The next day we went up to Minnetonka Cave. We walked up and down 888 stairs, it was an even 40 degrees throughout and stays that way year round. The kids did great Kris and Josh got carried most of the way. Needless to say we all got a workout and learned some stuff. Our tour guide was a big cheeseball but we decided that he really liked his job. Other than that we just relaxed.We had some great food and for the most part the kids had fun. There was some occasional whining, crying and fighting, but i think they enjoyed themselves.

Mike and Jamie made a really cool "blast furnace" which is basically a tin can, you put in in the coals of the fire and melt aluminum cans in it. Jamie started it, Mike perfected it. It was really cool. Kevin timed how long it took each to melt, the fastest one was 3seconds, i think. Some dumb camping fun. This was after the kiddos went to bed, don't worry we aren't that bad of examples.........