Lake Wenatchee State Park - Part 1- The First Day

    Lake Wenatchee State Park is such a wonderful place. It's our favorite place to camp because of well, everything! Tucked into the Cascade Mountain range, it's only half hour to the town, scenic Leavenworth.

  The first evening was windy on the lake but that didn't matter....unless it was going to to be like that our entire trip. : )

Smiles!

Fun biking!

Eye on the road!

Fun with whittling!

At the river

Cheese!

The lighting at the lake was so cool:

 

Dad & Me

Birthday Boy

 

Lil' Climber

Happy Hikers

More whittling

 

Sören's 7th Birthday!!!!!!!!!

Sören's 7th birthday was the end of July and he wanted to go to Lake Wenatchee to celebrate it. One day before his actual birthday, we had Grampy over for a party...................

Happy 7th Birthday Sören!!!!!!

Dad, Sören, Mom

Grampy & Sören

4 Siblings.....forever friends

Mmmmm.....mom made the cupcakes & I made the frosting and decorated them (it's fishing poles and fish)

                                           
 On his actual birthday before we left for Lake Wenatchee...............

Opening one gift.......

.......leads to a REAL cowboy!

Cowboy/Mariner Baseball Player

Sören & Me

Happy Birthday to the BEST brother ever!!!!!

Eeott & Papa's Farm - Part 6 - Cold Oregon Coast/Bunch Bar/Elk!

A week after our mini golfing experience, we headed west to the coast. It was breezy, foggy, and freezing (at Shore Acres State Park), which was a big bummer, but it was still pretty............   

 

The rock shapes were cool

Gift Shop & Garden

Roses.....

    On the way to Shore Acres, we stopped at an Elk Reserve. A group of bulls happened to be hanging out together not far from us. On the way back they were even closer......I love elk! Hopefully when Dad goes hunting he'll get one. When me & my family went to Yellowstone National Park in 2010, a bull elk bugled right in front of me! It was SO awesome!!!

They were this close!!!!!

At Bunch Bar........

Sören found this dead crawdad and that's all he played with! : )

 On an island......

Drying Off

Laying on the river bottom



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      Overall, we had a WONDERFUL trip and I want to thank Eeott, Papa, & Auntie Sharon for taking care of us and for all the fun activities we did! That only showed you a small glimpse of everything we did while staying at the farm......we can't wait for next year!!!!!!!! Thank You SO much!!!! ~ Grace

Eeott & Papa's Farm - Part 5 - Mini Golfing

      As our first week came on our trip came to an end, we headed to Eugene to have dinner with our great grandma Pammy and show our skills at mini golfing.

    My last time mini golfing with Eeott, Papa, and Auntie Sharon brought a funny beginning. It was my first turn and Eeott told me, "Hit it pretty hard." Well, I really thought that she meant HARD, because when I whacked that ball, it went flying through the fence, across the highway (a car ran it over) and stopped in front of a Ford truck at a car dealership.That was hilarious!

 Aim for the hole!.....

Golfers' Group Shot

Happy day!

Behind the waterfall

Papa & Us

Trying to get one of the balls back before the water carried it away

 Afterword, we had dinner with Pammy........

Eeott & Papa's Farm - Part 4 - Wildlife Safari

    One hot day, Auntie Sharon, Eeott, Lillian, Sören, and I went to the Wildlife Safari in in Winston. We had a lot of free fun!

I think this is an anteater....???

These little monkeys were SO cute!!!!

Sören is now a goat

We went on a little train ride around the grounds.....

Front view of the train

Sören & I had fun trying on the animal masks in the gift shop!!!

Lilys

Monkeys

Duck feeding

Strange duck

Auntie Sharon & me

Sören's eyes grew wide at this!

"Snowball" the deer (I just saw an albino deer in Coupeville a few days ago...so cool!!!!)

Petting zoo

Big turtle!

We didn't get a good view of the lions because they were far away sleeping : (

Hi Cheetah.....fastest animal on earth!

We also went on a camel, so fun!!! I've been on a camel 3 or 4 times now and it's much different then a horse......you're up a lot higher. (Unless you're on a VERY tall horse)