After living here for almost 13 years I finally visited Bear Lake. We went with our friends, the Barrett's and the Thygerson's for three days. It really is a beautiful lake. I still can't get over how clear it is, it looks like a pool. We camped at the state park, and were pretty close to the water. The little inlet of water by our camp was nice because it was calm and there were few if any people there, depending on the day, but it was far from the clear, beautiful water like the rest of the lake. We spent the first two days at that spot, but then the third day, on our way out, we stopped at a beach on the regular part of the lake and spent a few hours playing. We had to watch the kids closer and the water was a little colder, but it was gorgeous.
We ate good food, starting with LaBeau's hamburgers and raspberry shakes, swam, made lots of sand castles, got really sandy (especially Emilyn), played in the raft, took some rides in the canoes, the guys and big kids did some fishing (Matisyn even waded out in the cold water at night with Matt to be closer to the fish!), woke up with a screaming Emilyn only once a night (which is good for her while camping), hiked to a beautiful lake, sat in the sun, swatted some mosquitoes, had a campfire complete with smores and roasted starburst, and spent time with good friends. I have to say the highlight for me was a hysterical swim far out in the lake where their is a line of color that changes. Cora and I were set on finding out if that's where the water drops off and becomes deeper, and what it looked like. It ended up being much farther than it looked, we didn't want to get hit by a boat, Cora isn't too comfortable in the water, and the line kept seeming to move farther away as we got closer! These things aside we kept egging each other on to keep going, and so along with lots of laughing and 12 year old girl behavior, we made it out to the line, which by the way the sand below did have a big, steep drop-off, and we somehow felt complete knowing this for sure! All in all it was a really fun weekend.
Here are lots of pictures from our trip. They posted backwards, so they start from our last day, and end with our first.
Here we are swimming out to our line. Cora's daughter Emma decided she wasn't up for it a little while into the swim and turned around and came back.
Emilyn wasn't so sure about the cold water, but Matisyn loved swimming. She went all over in her life jacket. We really had to keep an eye on her because she was so confident.
Emilyn LOVED the sand, and spent most of our time at the beach playing in it. She was covered at the end of each day. She really loved playing with Jamison, and the other big kids. We called her Big Foot and Godzilla because she kept stomping through everyone's sand castle creations and knocking them down. I took a bunch of pictures of her because she was so adorable in her little swim suit, filling up buckets and dumping them out. She even spent some time in the water at the shore, filling her bucket with the watery sand. She liked the water when it was her idea!
Matisyn loves everything about the beach. She loved playing with her friends, swimming, being with Mommy and Daddy, playing in the boats, and playing in the sand. She could have stayed for weeks!
The Barrett's dog, Body was there, and Emilyn loved petting him and following him around. She got so excited when he was around.
Here's my muddy little sand lover!
Hiking the short distance to Bloomington Lake
Here's our whole group. The Thygerson's had to leave a day early, so this was our last outing with them. We missed them the last day!
Emilyn found one of the boy's hats and put it on herself and wouldn't take it off!
Love those legs!
Matt, Emilyn, and me out in Matt's dad's canoe. It was a short trip, Emilyn was not happy with a life jacket on, so we headed back. Before we made it to shore she managed a big bonk on one of the seats in the canoe and spent the next week with a big goose egg on her forehead.
The canoes were just as popular outside of the water.
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