Sunday, September 16, 2012

Labor Day at Lost Lake

We got to spend Labor Day camping with Norm and Ele.  Apparently, Lost Lake has been a Hamilton favorite for many years but this is the first time we have all gone together.  Garth has memories of going there as a kid so it was a fun trip to take.  We grabbed the group campsite and this was our view from the fire pit!

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We spent lots of time shooting rocks with Norm’s slingshots,

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paddling around and fishing in Norm’s new canoe,

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jumping off the dock,

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Saturday we headed to Republic for their fair.  It was kind of just an expensive lunch, but the kids enjoyed seeing the animals. 

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The kids laughed and laughed at this sheep.  He was so loud!  Anytime the kids came close or touched him, he bleated and it sounded like a belch.  Too funny!DSC00808DSC00812DSC00804DSC00814DSC00810

S’mores are even better when you cook them on Norm’s custom cookers.  He makes them out of a golf club handle and a fork!DSC00811DSC00803

Norm whittled us all a walking stick so we could hike the big tree trail. 

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We all had fun making mustaches from the stuff that falls from the Larch trees. 

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We Larch were big, but not what we expected.  They may have overstated their size.  Old. . . yes, big. . . maybe. You can hardly tell the two “big ones” apart from the other ones. 

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We had a great weekend and it is definitely somewhere we will visit again!

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