Camping

We spent four days in eastern Washington on a family vacation with a couple of spare children along for the ride to keep the kids busy.  Forrest, Noah, Kaleb, and I drove to Sun Lakes/Dry Falls State Park on Thursday.  Alyssa and her friend, Amanda, joined us late Friday night. Forrest and I have decided that we don't like weekend camping any more.  Thursday and Friday were so peaceful, quiet, and uncrowded. As the sun set Friday night the campground filled up and got noisy. 

In the loop adjacent to ours were two 

very large family groups.  Forrest said it was like a refugee camp (he's so politically incorrect) since neither group spoke English.  One was a large Hispanic family with at least 17 kids and the other was a large Russian family. There are only supposed to be a maximum of 8 people per campsite, but apparently the rangers didn't feel like enforcing that provision. The kids kept running back and forth through the middle of our campsite. Next year we're going to camp mid-week.

One of the highlights of the visit was a quick trip to Wilbur to visit my grandma. Her 101st birthday is coming up soon. The girls love to take their own photos.  Here they are at Soap Lake.  It was too cold to swim, but we did dip our toes in the healing mineral waters. The kids loved jumping from the basalt cliffs into Deep Lake.  Forrest shot video of their jumps from above while I floated on a tube in the water below.  We weren't brave (or stupid) enough to jump in.  Other than the wind the weather was lovely and warm.  All in all a great family vacation.