Camping photos

I am behind on posting summer pictures. We have been busy and I have been taking a graduate level class that has been taking up a lot of my sacred nap times, when it is best to post. Anyway, we went camping in the end of July at Waldo Lake with two other families that my families has been camping with for more than twenty years now! This camping trip was especially interesting because there were an endless number of mosquitoes!! They were out night and day and nothing detoured them other than if we were in our tent or our screened-in tent. We had mosquito sprays, citronella candles... you name it and we tried it. Even the dogs were swelling up from being bitten all day long! I have never seen so many mosquitoes in my life. At night, I would get in the tent to put Preston to bed and I would have to spend the next ten minutes killing at least 20 mosquitoes that has entered even though I had crawled in the tent as quick as I could. And in the morning, we would wake to the buzzing sound of mosquitoes and when I opened my eyes, I could see hundreds (yes hundreds) of them buzzing above our tent, just waiting to bite us. It was in the mid -80s and we tried to go swimming on the lake (if you have not been there, it is beautiful lake), but the mosquitoes were endless. Anyway, we were happy to come back to our house which is mosquito free. We look forward to going back there another year, when the mosquitoes are not so plentiful! Here are the few pictures we took.

Preston was as happy as can be, despite getting bit constantly

Piggy-back ride

My brother Lucas and his wife, Leslie, under some netting to keep the mosquitoes from biting their faces

Family picture

Playing with the water faucet