Every year, we look forward to our annual Larnder-O'Donnell camping trip. We all like trying new places and this year's location was the Birch Bay State Park. We have been there before and loved it, but it was something new for the Larnders. I do believe they ended up loving there too. So many beautiful trees and nice private sites.
A meeting over the fire :)
This bridge led us to a little piece of heaven....the beach!
The best part of the trip is spending so much time with my BFF!
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A bike ride to the "C" shop was in order to get some ice cream.
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This year the two oldest kids were busy with work and school so just our babies came. It was so much fun watching the two of them together because they both get along so well together. We discovered they are pretty much two peas in a pod! Here they are doing the teeenager thing.
Many hours were spent looking for little ocean creatures under the rocks.
The men folk having some sort of discussion.
I wouldn't even beging to count the hours we spent playing "Dutch Blitz".
I had played this game as a child, but was reintroduced to it on this trip and ended up going to get my own set to play for the rest of the summer.
Every vacation needs a little road trip for some adventure.
We went in to Bellingham to the mall one day to check things out in the big city.
Here's our chauffeur and his choice of tunes.
It's a little known fact that Kenny Loggins was part of the BeeGees for a small amount of time.
My favourite pic of the whole trip...
Yup, we're a happy bunch when we all get together!
Our families are changing every year with the kids growing up so fast, so each year will be a new adventure, but I hope this is a tradition that we can keep up for years to come!
