As I mentioned before, we took my brother, Jeff, and his wife, Natalie, camping during their trip to Minnesota. We chose Itasca State Park which is where the Mississippi River starts. It is a beautiful state park with nice amenities and plenty to do there. Natalie has not been camping much so she was a good sport for putting up with our crew while camping. Both Jeff and Nat were a huge help around camp. It's amazing how going from 2 adults & 4 kids to 4 adults & 4 kids changes things. Too bad we can't always have a 1:1 adult to kid ratio.
While we were there we enjoyed a lot of great food, took a boat out on the lake and saw several loons, walked across the start of the Mississippi River, played at the beach, geo-cached, fished, star gazed, played games, took a run together, got up and close with nature seeing huge raccoons (just ask Natalie), and talked late into the evening. It was a great trip.
Around the campfire
Exploring the park
Eating dinner in our "bug tent" the spiders kept crawling in and by the second day we just ate outside.
My 'lil Bubbies
Crazy S'more Girl
More s'mores
Love these guys
Swimming in the lake
Adam jumping off the boat
Anna fishing off the boat
Anna's turn
Anna driving with Jeff
Start of the Mississippi
Cute girl
Even Calvin dipped his toes in the Mississippi
Mikey and Calvin
Jeff & Nat
Camille crossing the rocks
The whole group at the famous Mississippi sign
Adam got to ride with J&N on the way up. He loved it.
Boys making s'mores for everyone
Loons out on the water (MN state bird)
Jeff took this shot of the lake
Nice catch Jeff!
Fishing
Nat and Calvin
Girls with their Auntie
Anna made a sign for Jeff and Natalie's room while they were here. We decided Jeef Jerky should be Jeff's new nickname.
2 comments:
Wow- those are beautiful pictures, it looks so pretty up there. You had quite the camping set-up. I'm impressed!
Yeah to finally see your camping pictures. What a great trip! So glad Natalie got to have a positive camping experience this time. He He! :)
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