[ our family loves to go camping ]

• fayette park (1993?)
  • big house/museum with spiral staircase
  • sitting on the anthill
• fox park (1998?)
  • amanda
  • sadie & ed smuggling me in cotton candy
• fox park (1998?)
  • tara
• somewhere up north (1998-99?)
  • shawn teaching me about hot glass and cold water
  • shawn teaching me how to make owl noise with my hands
  • troy went missing?
• porcupine mountains (???)
  • sadie & shawn scuba diving
  • giant waves
• st ignace (1999)
  • mackinaw island
  • broke glass bottle of sparkly shower gel on the way to the showers
  • sarah got ash in her eye
  • katie with her shirt on backwards & inside out
• somewhere on lake superior (2001)
  • aaron
  • melted my shoes by the fire
  • glass bottom boat tour
  • pictured rocks national lakeshore tour
• rose bush (2003-2008)
  • wine coolers
  • walking to see the dam
  • shawn & sarah & the boys
  • shawn & sadie's "trick"
  • pemene falls
  • reading harry potter & lord of the rings in hammock
• kleinke park 2007
  • eric drunk & belligerent
  • lots of crying
  • trying to caonoe on the bay
  • scott
• crappy site (2008)
  • early october
  • river drained
  • cold
• chalk hills (2009)
  • drunk for the first time (port + sangria)
  • tony & albert & baiden
  • grandma (got sick from smoke & had to go to hospital)
  • shawn & janet
  • one of the best trips ever
• free site (2010)
  • got sick :(
  • rained a lot
  • shawn's tent collapsed
  • super sucky
• chalk hills (2011)
  • 20 questions with mom
  • drunk kayaking
  • sliding down red sand bank
  • only remembering eating chicken wings
  • bugs flying into sauce
  • singing the beatles?
  • sadie adding rum to her mudslides
  • sick the next morning
  • super itchy sunburn
  • mom got poison ivy
• free site (2012)
  • SUPER rainy driving there
  • going over deep puddles
  • mom's tent broke (sadie & rick brought a new one)
  • listening to radio around the fire
• rec area 4 (2013)
  • hot
  • heat rash & sunburn
  • 7-8 days (one of our longest trips)
  • kayaking to the islands
  • sleeping in the car during lightning storm