Trip Three - Elelven Mile 9/3-9/6

YEAH! A long weekend to escape and for another excuse to use our pop-up! There are two ways to get to eleven mile, and leaving at 4:30pm on the Friday of Labor Day weekend we probably would have hit traffic going either way. It took us 2 1/2 hours longer than we excpected, lost signal on Adam's phone which had the dirctions (so going forward we will always print out the directions for back-up), and had to set up camp in the dark, which we did, SUCCESSFULLY!! We woke up the next day to this view!

There aren't many trees, but the lake goes on FOREVER and is so beautiful. Plus our site backed up to these wonderful rocks which the boys couldn't get enough of. They spent the entire morning pretending they were at war and used the rocks as base. We heard them say "duck and cover" and "enemy approaching", etc. They had a blast! I wonder where they got that from?? It couldn't be from computer games.... NOOOOOOOOOO

Our friend Andrew drove up for the day and arrived around 10ish. We decided to go for a hike and do a little exploring. We stopped at a cove and Moe went swimming while the boys wadded in the water. The water was VERY cold.

Can you tell by Jack's face????

After our hike we went back to the camp site, grilled hot dogs and played catch with Benny. Adam wanted to catch some fish, so we went fishing. He didn't get anything, bummer.

Adam and I had commented on how we were warned that it is always windy at eleven mile. Well, we were thinking they were lying until we woke up on Sunday. WOW! We didn't let that stop us. The boys wanted to go back to the cove we found on Saturday to look for crawfish. Adam and Benny rode their bikes to the cove and Jackie and I walked w/ Moe. The cove was VERY windy. We went over a hill and found another cove with NO wind. So we hung out there all afternoon, had a picnic, Jack fished with no luck and Adam and Ben did some mountain biking.

It was so windy when we got back that we stayed in our trailer the rest of the day and played games. Benny was worried our pop-up was going to blow over a couple of times. The wind died down during the night but picked back up with vengeance the next day, so we had a quick breakfast and headed for home.

It was so nice having an extra day to hang out. I think we all agree that this trip is the best so far with our pop-up (even though Adam and Jack were unsuccessful at catching fish). But there we will be many more! I can't wait to see what lies ahead at our next camping spot (where ever that may be!)

Oh yeah, and NOTHING went wrong with the pop-up this time. I think we may actually know what we are doing now (I shouldn't say that or I will jinx us). We did run out of water again, so we will start bringing a few containers of water for back-up.