Bear Lake

We were so excited when my brother's in-laws invited us up to bear lake for my brother's 30th birthday.  They have a lot in an HOA right on the beach of the lake.  In the future they plan to build a cabin but for now it is just a open lot with grass.  The nice thing is that there is a bathroom with a shower and a vanity to get ready in.  On his birthday, we started the day off with a nice breakfast.  It was delicious!

Then it was time to head to the lake.  This was our first trip to Bear Lake.  They said usually there are tons of beaches but with the lake being so high this year, their beach was completely under water.  That was a little disappointing but that just means hopefully we'll get invited again next year and maybe the beach will be back.

After spending the afternoon at the lake, we went back to camp.  Nikki and her mom had planned a treasure hunt for the kids. 

 

They had so many goodies in the treasure box.  Each kid had a huge bag of treats and toys.  Each of the clues were in a treasure box.  Each kid got to keep a treasure box and later in the afternoon they painted their box.

They even did some tatoos.

That night the girls made animals out of molding clay and the adults enjoyed a few rounds of farkle.  It rained on and off during the evening but it was fun to hang out and play games.  I love thunder and lighting and it only lasted a short time. 

The next day before we headed home we decided to take the kids to the Minnetonka cave.  We weren't really prepared to go cave expoloring.  We were in shorts and flip flops.  They were kind to give us sweatshirts to wear.  Brilynn had on really flat flip flops and the mud and water kept squishing in between her toes.  So I switched her shoes.  There were 800 and some odd stairs that you went up and down during the cave.  John and I had to carry the twins 99% of the time.  When we would stop we would set the twins down to stand for a few minutes.  Then we would pick them up once we started walking again.  By doing so, our shorts were covered in mud.  By time we left the cave we were a muddy mess. 

We all had such a great time at Bear Lake.  We hope to return soon and this time we will make sure we get a Raspberry Shake.  We had so much food to eat that everytime we thought about getting a shake, we were too full.  On the way out of town we were going to get shakes but the line was about 50 people long and we decided we didn't want one that bad:)  Thanks Lisa and Andy for inviting us.  We loved it!!!