Camping

We were able to go camping last week at our friend Bob's house.  He has a cabin in Birch Bay and he let us come out to stay with him.  We set up a tent in is back yard and had a wonderful time.  We were camping but still had all of the luxuries of a beautiful house.   Kitchen, bathroom, jetted shower, morning cartoons for the kids, private beach. . .

The front of his house.

His front porch where we spent every morning drinking our coffee and looking at the water.

Our beautiful view from his front porch.

Our cozy little tent.

One day we took the kids to mini world where we went mini golfing and Mike and Aiden got to go in the go carts.  We were a little disappointed that the train wasn't running but had so much fun.  After we went out to lunch and then to the Candy Shop to get some ice cream.  We ended up spending $25.00 on candy!

Makayla REALY enjoyed her ice cream.

He had a shared stairway down to a private beach.  There were about 92 steep stairs but it was so worth it having very few people around you on the beach.

On our last day there the tide finally went out far enough for us to go clam digging.  It was so much fun to watch the boys dig for those clams.

These are the holes we would look for.

Then Bob and Mike would start digging.

Mike really getting into it.

Sucess!!!

The clams were HUGE!  We caught about 10 of them and they made great clam chowder.

Next we dug for steamer clams.  We found quite a few of them and oysters too! 

The kids had a great time digging for anything they could find.  Makayla couldn't walk down the beach without pickup every shell and 'beautiful rock' she found.

Mike's prize boat 'The Minoe'.  They went out crabbing about 3 times every day and caught so many crab! 

I took this pic from Bob's porch.  I couldn't believe I could see them so well from there.

Some of our catch.

All in all we had a great camping trip.  We couldn't have asked for better weather and had a lot of fun friends come out and spend time with us while we were there.