Camping adventure Part 2

We arrived in Cascade and at our camping spot in the early afternoon hours on a beautiful, warm day by the lake. Vince is my tent expert and I am his side kick!

We forgot to get a malet for the tent stakes (of course, lol). Vince used his genius-ness and grabbed a nearby rock :-)

Final setup, nice and cozy :-)

After everything was all arranged and up, we decided to walk around the campground loop and scope everything out. Check out any nearby neighbors, see the area, etc.

A nice outlet to get on to the small beach area

Can you see the little white butterfly!? They would just swamp all of the trees, fluttering by.

I caught a bee on one of the flowers!

There was a cute little path that ran through part of the campground and we enjoyed walking by the lake. We settled back at our home base and set in for a relaxing first evening.

Our spot was just up on a small hill overlooking the loop and lake

Mmmmmm!

Vince playing the game called "Ten" with me!

Yep, I caved and had to buy a comfy sweater with the right logo :-)

After enjoying a wonderful evening just sitting around our campground snacking, talking, having Vince teach me some new card games and eating smores, we slowly woke up and I made scrambled eggs and fried spam for breakfast. Yum!

Organic eggs courtesy of Idahorse Farms!

Sporks and a spam & eggs feast!

A little while later we decided to do some more exploring and a little hiking. We drove down the road a bit to see if a neighboring campground was one that Vince had stayed at before with his cousins. Which, it turns out that it was the one so next time we will try that spot!

On the way there, we saw a golden eagle just chillin on a rock near the road!

Later on, we relaxed and I tried to stay warm! (Being in 50/60 degree weather after being acclimated to much warmer weather, I caught cold pretty easily). It was very chilly for the rest of the evening and into bed time. And when we finally climbed into our little tent and snuggled under the covers of our warm sleeping bags, we heard the nearby campers telling their children/grand-children some familiar bed time stories. I almost laughed out loud and wanted to hollar across the camp ground that the stories were awesome but I held myself back, enjoyed the stories and eventually fell asleep. I guess bed time stories still work no matter now old you get, lol.

Beautiful sunset by the lake casting some amazing light on everything

Vince threw pine needles on the fire to keep it going. My pyro side certainly enjoyed the large bursts of flame!

The next morning I made my way down to the shower/restroom facilities and it must have been super, super early cuz it was so beautiful out. The sun had just barely risen to the other side of the lake and there were big, rolling clouds of mist that covered it. Of course, I didn't bring the camera with me so I missed the most glorious moments :-( But Vince was my hero, who surprised me by actually running down and taking these photos of what was left of the mist on the lake while I showered and warmed up!

He caught the moon, too!

Camping adventure galore!

A nice view of gorgeous Cascade Lake

We are soon to depart on a "just us" little camping trip adventure and I'm about ready to jump out of my skin in excitement! I found just a few photos of the Ridgeview Campground in Lake Cascade State Park to tease myself with for now, enjoy below :

Entrance to the campground

Nice little fire pit, picnic table and grassy spot for a tent

Another view of the individual camp sites (here and below)

Shower and Restroom facilities (No way in hell I will ever do what they call "primitive" camping)

I will post more photos when we are home ;-) Leaving Sunday, August 14th and then we'll back on Tuesday, August 16th!

By the way, if you ever need to make a reservation for a campground, just visit Reserve America's website! Super convenient and easy.

Summer Days

Summer fun days, galore! Finally got in most of the the major things I wanted to do before summer is gone again. Next stop, camping! One more week to go!

Roaring Springs Water Park

Floating the Boise River

This is the BEST sunscreen, EVER! Spray on, no-rubbing in necessary, super sweat & water proof (this stuff STICKS to your skin, you can feel it as soon as you spray it on) and lasts for quite a while, 100% UV protection.

Used this for floating the river and came out unscathed from the sun at least, but man I forgot how scary some parts of the river can be on a tube, lol.

I almost lost my sun hat a couple of times while frantically arm-paddling to get out some very crowded tree banks, but it was still quite the thrill to float after my last adventure, which was about eleven years ago. Not sure if I would do it on a simple tube, next time. Probably will end up getting more of a "raft" type device with paddles, hehehe.

Keep on keepin on

 Still house hunting with no especially exciting places coming up quite yet. Hopeful hunting, for sure, though :-) Figured I better come out with a new post, it's been a while!

We recently celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary on the 12th with a nice gathering at P.F. Changs China Bistro.






The weekend prior to that, we stayed at the Anniversary Inn in the "fire and ice" themed room...have to say the room itself was pretty lame and a bit cheesy. Every year we pick a different themed room though, so it's fun :-) Check out the photos below: