Rock On!

The kids were telling us this morning that Payton's camp site was better than ours because she had a fun game.  When we heard about the game, we pulled the game out of one of the storage bins!  The kids had forgotten that we had the same game.  Ha! Ha!  We had a lot of fun playing with them.

 Ben thought he was pretty smart standing on this tree stump.  What a funny boy!

 After a while, Emma went off to play with Payton.  Ben got to stay with us and we decided to teach him how to play Skip-Bo.  He did pretty good and had fun playing with us.

Just before noon we headed in to Kimberley to Spirit Rock to go rock climbing.  It took a while to get all the waivers signed and rentals figured out, but we got everything done and started climbing! They were both a little nervous to start out, but before long Emma was off and climbing.

 Ben had a bit of a hard time with his harness.  He complained of it hurting him, so he didn't want to climb.  After some time, we finally found a new harness and he did much better after that.

Within about a half hour of being there, Rachel came with her three oldest kids and we had fun climbing with them all afternoon.

 Lennard and I even tried climbing!  It was a good workout!  My arms and legs were shaking pretty good by the end of a few walls.

 Lennard had a lot of fun climbing and made it to the top of a couple really tall walls!

Since we really didn't have lunch, by the time we finished up rock climbing, everyone was hungry.  We went to the bakery and had a hard time narrowing down our choices!

 Emma got a chocolate covered cream filled eclair type treat.

 Ben requested the 'zebra' one... a Neapolitan.

 I got a big foot donut... YUM! Lennard got a sausage/beef roll. That was delicious.

Seriously - everything was SO good!  We said goodbye to Rachel and her kids and then headed back to the campground.  The kids really wanted to go swimming.  It wasn't very warm and almost starting to rain, but they were determined to go... so we let them!  Lennard had planned to get in with them, but when we got up to the pool, it wasn't very deep and the kids were doing okay by themselves, so we just hung out on the side of the pool and watched them.  Crazy kids!

We didn't stay very long as it was starting to rain.  We got back to the trailer and called Grandpa Nichols to wish him a happy birthday!  It was hard to call anyone with the spotty cell reception at the campground so we were glad we managed to get through to him.