Camping...finally!

The kids have been begging to go camping since last fall.  Last weekend we headed out to the Lake (the capital L lake, as in Lake Michigan) planning to camp and play at the beach Thursday thru Saturday.  Our trip got a bit of a rocky start when we showed up at the campground certain they'd have some unreserved spots, and they didn't.  Luckily (and miraculously) we were able to get the last spot at the state park 10 miles north of our original destination.  It was actually kind of fun to try out a new campground and beach.  We stayed at Muskegon State Park.

The most difficult part of beach trips is dragging everything across the big, wide, sandy beach down to the water.  We employed cheap labor though and made it.

 

Here are a few more pictures of us at the beach.  We had a good time, enjoyed having our friends, the McKays, join us the last day, and enjoyed good weather (up until the big thunderstorm that moved across the lake very quickly a half hour before we had planned to leave).  We'll look forward to going back!