Camping 2010

David is three years old and has not been camping yet...how did that happen?  Keith and I used to go camping every summer, but between babies and masters classes, we just haven't made it happen in the past few years.  We decided not to let another summer go by without a camping trip, so we borrowed Keith's parents' van, loaded up our gear and headed to Michigan for the week.  Here are some highlights from the trip:

• camping next to the Hollidays and around the bend form Uncle Todd, Aunt Dee, Mike and Nic
• sleeping in our spacious new tent (and staying dry even when it stormed the first night)
• watching Uncle Jason try and try to get a fire going in the rain
• Macy's and David's wonderfully imaginative play - building campfires up to the trees and creating a compost pile
• Max losing his first tooth
• swimming in Lake Michigan (Lida even got her toes wet) and building sand castles with cousins
• Keith's veggie packets and pudgie pie pizzas made with homemade bread - yum!
• spending a day in Grand Haven with Peter, Niki & Jake
• taking a mid-trip stop at Papa & Tutu's cottage
• meeting up with friends at Michindoh (Flash, Quinn, Tate & Abigail and Pebbles & Kasia)
• ditching our tent during a torrential downpour to spend the night in Communiversity
• all kinds of Michindoh fun: swimming, nature center, archery, hayride, campfire, and of course...WATERSLIDE!