BBD 2010

Ever since I can remember, there has been an annual camping trip the weekend after the Forth of July.  My family and I would go to some destination and camp for an extended weekend.  This year we treated it as a family reunion since four of the eight kids now live out of California.  So instead of picking somewhere that is a threeish hour drive from everyone, we went eight hours and went to Fallen Leaf Lake about a mile or two south of Lake Tahoe.  Eleni normally wakes up around 3:00 in the morning so we decided to leave when she woke up.  She slept most of the way there and Duke did too.  After checking into the campground and parking in our site, we noticed a bunch of people standing in a little parking lot a few sites away.  This is what they were looking at.  After a day of trying to keep Eleni clean, I decided to forget it and let her have her fun.  At first she did pretty good at staying on the mat but soon became braver and braver and eventually found the dirt.

At least she didn’t do this.

We were lucky to have our sites close enough for us to be able to walk to the lake.  I think of the 30+ people there in our group, some went everyday. 

 Duke’s first trip to a body of water big enough for him to swim in.This is Tyler sampling the cuisine. The water was a little cold for total enjoyment but once you got in it was nice. These were the two youngest campers.  Lilly and Eleni are 8 months apart.I took Eleni to the showers with me once and that didn’t work as well as I had hoped so we did this instead. The drive home was not as pleasant as the drive there but Duke helped keep Eleni entertained.These were the best times of the drive.

Can’t wait until BBD 2012!!!