Our Bear Lake Adventure

August 22, 2007

Well, we had an interesting vacation at Bear Lake last weekend. The Lehman family always goes camping around the end of July, first part of August up to Bear Lake. Most go for at least 2 nights, and come back Saturday. But we just went up on Friday afternoon.

The adventure began with multiple stops at grocery stores and gas stations as we made our way from Layton to Logan to Garden City with some slow going between Layton and Logan where they’re doing all the construction on the freeway. So we finally got up there at about 6:00 pm.

The 2-man tent in the wind

Julie and the kids in the wind storm with Eden getting her diaper changed

Peyton holding the stick caterpillar

We were able to head down to the lake for a bit just to wade. But as we were getting ready we realized that we had left Eden’s bag with her swimsuit, clothes, and diapers at home. So she had nothing to wear but what she had on. You’d think as a former European missionary I would have known to just let her go Euro style and run around naked on the sand (then this blog could have been titled “Going Bare at Bear” and that would have been pretty cool). But the thought didn’t occur to me until after I’d just rolled her pants up and let her play in the water for a while and get everything soaked. Eden decided though that she did NOT like walking on the sand and made me put her shoes back on her. Pretty funny. After the wading and a good mud fight between the boys, we headed back for some good foil dinners and scones.

As we were finishing the scones, a stiff wind started rolling in from the lake and just got stronger and stronger. Soon, our tent was only about 2 feet tall because it was getting blown to the side so hard.

Katie and Megan had brought our little 2 man tent and it was almost flat on the ground. Julie and the kids got in our tent and sat against the back wall to keep it up while I stood outside and held the rope tie-downs. For some reason our tent seemed to be getting the worst of it. This was strong wind, apparently around 50 – 60 miles an hour. It lasted about an hour and by the time it was done, we had 2 cracked fiberglass poles that will need replacing before our next camping trip.

The next day was pretty rainy and cool. Not much fun for swimming. But we did find this cool caterpillar crawling on the back of my shirt. It looks just like a twig. Sorry I didn’t get a closer shot. So after a while we just packed up and headed home, with a stop at the famous Fredrico’s in Logan for pizza and salad.

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