Tuesday, August 20, 2013

High up in the Uintahs

We went camping again this weekend, this time up to Mirror Lake in the beautiful Uintah Mountains.

Did I mention how beautiful it is up there? 


 We did LOTS of fishing... 
 
 

 

 
 But alas, Alicia was the only one who caught a fish...



She had a love/hate relationship with the fish.  She loved catching it, but hated eating it.  (She is not the seafood fan in the family)

We played games, like kubb, which consists of tossing sticks at your opponents blocks, or in the case of our family, a slight break from the game to look like this:  
 
 
 John taught Kimberly how to throw a hatchet:


 
and the clan played on logs in the rain.
As usual, it rained on us, as it does every camping trip.


Here's the difference in temperature from night one:



 
Night two:
 

 
 
Now it's back to reality, that is, surviving this last week of summer break before school starts up next Monday.  The jury is still out on whether or not the girls and/or I will survive.  

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