Greenreich Chronicles: July 2014

Camping Daily Miscellaneous Activities

Making grass whistles

Playing in the dripping water tap.

and checking on the bird who built her nest inside the post.

Roasting wieners over the fire.

Taking a bath in Nana's tiny tub.

The log ride.

Oh and in this picture you can see William the little boy that Matthew made friends with who accompanied us to the bear presentation and on the nature hike.

This is the face Alex made while on the log ride.

reading with Nana before bed

Playing T-ball

Making fires in the drizzle

Eating those little boxes of cereal.

Sitting with Nana around the fire.

Collecting bugs

Getting a free ride and a free snack on the way back from buying wood

Playing with all the kids in the meadow in the middle of all the camp sites.

More sitting around the fire

Eating S'mores

Farragut State Park Day 5

Our last night we had to move to a different site and although it was a totally different vibe, we still enjoyed ourselves.

The boys were playing nicely with each other and we all know how rare that is so it was a moment to record.

Mathew was making faces.

And Alex was cracking up.

We all had such an amazing/incredible/fabulous time.

I hope our schedules work out so we can meet up again next year to do it again!

Camping Faragut State Park: Day 4

This day the park activity was a nature hike.

Matthew found a cool leaf on the hike and two centipedes one of which I carried all the way back to the campsite so it could be put in a jar.

Later in the day we went into town to find the WIFI to call Daddy. I took a wrong turn and it took us past two deer standing in the road and to this little look out spot.

Its hard to get a good group picture when one of the group is being persnickety about being touched at this particular moment.

By the time we got to town (about 7 minutes later) ALex was asleep so Matthew and I drove around a bit and found another good photo op.

Camping Faragut State ParkDay 3: Owl Pellets

Papa's ever observant eyes spotted a bulletin board notice advertising campground activities one of which was the Owl presentation.

We all (Nana included) went to the amphitheater to check it out. They started with recordings of owl noises and discussed owls a bit then they handed out Owl pellets (the balls of ick they puke up), toothpicks and paper plates.

They got to use the toothpicks to dig out the bones.

Consulting the chart to see what bones they had.

More excavating.

The "instructor" coming to see what they had and Alex checking things out too.

That same evening they did a bear presentation that was basically a 30 min movie about bears.

Camping Day 2- Hike to the Brig

On day number two we decided to take a short hike before nap time.

Matthew was almost always ahead of us.

Alex was almost always lagging behind.

Here Matthew was "taking care of all the long distance seeing" for the hike.

Standing next to giant weed/flower thingys.

About to blow the seeds of a goat's beard.

We ended up at the Brig Museum. Faragut State park was a submarine training station during World War II and the sole remaining building is the brig which they have turned into a museum and memorial.

Unfortunately our short hike turned out to be more like 3 miles and on the way back Alex gave up the fight to sit on the side of the road and eat rocks. Needless to say he was carried all the way back and Matthew was carried about half way back. Thank goodness Papa has a really good sense of direction and was able to find a bit of a short cut.

Camping Faragut State Park: Day 1

On June 25th, the boys and I drove to Northern Idaho to go camping with Nana and Papa at Faragut State Park for 5 days.

First stop was the beach. It was cold.

Matthew came out to warm himself on my bum. New meaning to the word bum warmer, eh colleen?

That evening Papa brought out his fancy sling shot for Matthew to try.

It made him instantly tough.

Of course a fire needed to be built. The coolest part was when Papa chopped the wood on one end of the plank the other end popped up! Home made carnival ride!