SABBATH SNAPSHOTS: Family Fun, Deep Creek style

8/4/13 What makes a great family vacation? Anticipation. Making do. Outdoor activities---even sleeping outside. Hot chocolate around the morning campfire. S'mores and scary stories around the nighttime campfire. Ice Cream. A hammock. Glow in the dark games. Mining. Safety. Raining as we slept NOT during the day. Rolling with the punches. Packing up the tent on a "dry" day. It also helps when the scenery is spectacular, the temps are cool and pleasant and the kids have a blast in the "ordinary" days of "no agenda" creating their own games and adventures.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity! (Psalm 133:1

Even the youngest (2) helps set up the tent.

Mommy braves the COLD water to "tube the creek" with her  5 yr. old

S'mores, a Nightly Treat 

Hot Chocolate by the morning campfire when the it's  52° & chilly.

Taking RELAXING to new heights.....well, sort of.

Andrew's "El-wie"---our "lone" girl cousin, among 7 boys.

The "tooth fairy" found us even in Deep Creek.

Tubing all the way to the  ice cream shop.  

Lunch served "tubeside" for a quick return to the creek.

Watermelon Cooled in the Creek

Treasure Hunting

Tom Branch Falls, view from a tube looking up 

Glow in the dark ring toss 

Cooking a yummy breakfast on a "damp" morning.

Exploring

Suspension Bridge Fun 

The cousins minus one........ 

Missing cousin found.....still exploring.