Labor Day Weekend

 We decided to take one last quick camping trip with our family friend, Karra. We really wanted to go to Lake Como in the Hamilton area, but the smoke from all the fires was pretty thick there. So we stayed closer to home and went to Rock Creek. It ended up being pretty smokey there too, but we tried to ignore it and have fun anyway. Here's our little camp site.

  So what did we do to entertain ourselves? Jared got out his new toy, a climbing rope. He started messing around and then...

 Gage was swinging from the trees and having a blast!

 Karra wanted a refresher course on knots and Jared was happy to oblige, but she didn't want her picture taken. Can you tell?

The next day we met up with our friends, the Hyltons, to fish and play in Rock Creek. This bridge is pretty cool.

Can you see Jared and Gage down below trying to find a good fishing spot?

 

That red dot is Gage waving to me on the bridge.

Beautiful!

 Seth, Connor and Claire. Gage was so happy to have his friends join us.

 Elena and Claire

 When we were done playing  and fishing we came back to camp and enjoyed a dutch oven meal and some more flying from the trees.

 

 

 I guess camping hadn't worn us out enough on Friday and Saturday because we decided to head up to Rattle Snake and go on a bike ride on Monday. We went 6 miles up and then came back down. Gage did great! It is so fun to have him older and able to do activities like this with us now. He loves, loves, loves riding his bike!

 Don't we look so cool in our bike riding gettup!?! I love this trail. We met someone along the way that saw a bear cub up in a tree. Of course we didn't see anything that exciting.

 Gage and his bike and the great outdoors.

It was a great way to end our Labor Day Weekend.