THE JANITORIAL

Camping 2012...

After a 4 year hiatus (due to PT school, wedding, and moving), Josh and I were able to make it to our annual family camping trip. This year the Obeys and Hintzs came to MN vs. us going to MI. We found a campsite in Schroeder, MN (about 80 miles North of Duluth) called Lamb's Resort. Here is a recap of the week (Saturday-Thursday).

Saturday- We arrived at camp, set-up, and explored. I realized that I never took a picture of our campsite. We shared with my parents, and then Margie, Kevin, and Renee were at the site next to us and Barb and Gary had the site across from them. Prior to leaving Josh and I bought a new tent. Josh had a two person tent, which was fine but only fit our air bed so we decided to upgrade. We ended up getting a 6 person Coleman, complete with a hinged door, self rolling windows, and an LED light. Her is a picture of it in our front yard.

This is the back side

Sunday- We hiked along the Temperance River (a couple miles from our camp ground).

Beginning of the hike

Renee and I

Another view of the beginning

Josh and I

Some point during the hike

Love this picture

Monday- While Kevin and my dad went fishing the rest of us headed for another hike at Sugarloaf Cove.

Gary and Barb- Barb is reading history for us

View from the path

Another view

Mom enjoying the hike

Margie and Renee taking in the sites

Sugarloaf Cove from far away

Josh and I exploring

Sugarloaf Cove from close up

Renee and I enjoying Lake Superior

Monday Night- Annual Date night: My parent's wedding anniversary is July 22nd, Kevin and Margie's is July 21st and ours is July 24th so we were invited to join this year (I usually babysat Renee). We headed to Grand Marais for dinner and a walk on the pier. We ate at The Angry Trout Cafe on Lake Superior. 

Pa

Josh and I

Mom and Margie with their Wine

Maple Cream Soda, very tasty

View of Lake Superior from our table

 Pa and Ma at dinner

Margie and Kevin at dinner

Grand Marais

Josh and I walking on the pier

Margie and Kevin on the pier

Pa and Ma on the pier

The end of the pier at sun set

Tuesday- All of us went shopping in Grand Marais, except Josh, he decided to go for another hike. Here are some pictures from his hike.

Josh's Hike

Josh's Hike

Josh's Hike

Josh's Hike

Josh on his hike



Wednesday- The group, minus the Holles, decided to go for a drive to the Boundary Waters, we decided to stay behind and spend some time just the 2 of us. We started the morning at the coffee house, then biked 6 miles to Tofte, visited the local museum, and then did some exploring at Cross River. When the group returned we braved the waves and cold of Lake Superior with only some minor injuries.

Stopped at the Temperance River

Temperance River

Josh and I on our bike ride

Cross River

Cross River, we climbed up to under the bridge on the left, but didn't bring the camera up there

Close up of where we climbed

At Cross River (the guys did a lot of fishing here)

Josh at Cross River

Lake Superior (on our camp ground)

Again

Thursday- We packed up our campsite (others were staying until Saturday) and then after lunch headed to Split Rock Lighthouse and Gooseberry Falls on the way home.

Split Rock

Again

Josh inside

The light/lens

What use to power it... I think??

The stairs

Again

I couldn't decide which one of the stairs to post so I just did all 3

Split Rock

Me and Split Rock

Josh at Gooseberry Falls

Gooseberry Falls

Us at Gooseberry Falls

We had an amazing vacation and are resting/unpacking/spending time with Dave for our remaining days before heading back to work on Monday. Margie and Renee are headed to my parent's house for 2 weeks and we are excited to get to spend some more time with them! Thanks for hanging in with my marathon post.

-Heidi