Lake Chelan Camping Trip

Camping is what Luke wanted to do for Father's Day.

I'm not much of a camper, (not that I don't enjoy it, but I just haven't went much and it seems like an awful lot of work...) and I never really knew Luke was. I think we've went camping a grand total of 5 times since we've been married. None of those times have been since Scott and Quinn joined our family. Luke did take the 3 older boys one night last summer while Halli, Trey, and I were in Oregon, but they had never slept outside that they could remember. Eek!

So anyway, my brother and his wife (Stephen & Karianne) are avid campers and very good at "roughing it"... we took them along! ;) Luke and Stephen decided we should go to a campground up on Lake Chelan. We originally thought it was a boat-in only campground, but soon learned it wasn't. Apparently, many, many other folks had the same idea, and the campground was ridiculously packed. We did manage to find the boat-in only campground, which was much less crowded. We hope to attempt it next time.
We boated up to the top end of the Lake Chelan Saturday, to a little town called Stehekin. It's only accessible by either boat or airplane! We boated back to the campground for lunch, then headed back out to spend the afternoon tubing and swimming. Chelan is at the other end of the lake, and we spent Sunday morning walking around there, finally hunting down an ice cream parlor for a snack before returning to the camp ground for lunch.

All in all, we had a wonderful time! 

Band of Brothers

Fetching water

Balancing Act

Cheese!

Ready to go!

Poor little Felicity all snugged up in a life jacket...

Boating Brothers

Boating Fun! (Karianne, Felicity, & Stephen)

Hiking in to the waterfall

Up we go...

Hiking...

Domke Falls

No car access to this town!

Children's corner of the Stehekin Museum

Checking it all out...

My favorite guys

Outside the Museum

:)

Scott can sleep anywhere and through anything!

Practicing on our lunch...!

Hotdog perfection

Swimming fun!

Naptime in the boat

Oh, what fun!

Floating...

She approves!

Yum!

Gooey Goodness!

Breakfast will be served very soon...!

Camping food is so good!

Halli and Felicity

Scrub a tub!

Exploring around Chelan

Boating Buddies!

Karianne has some more pictures I'll probably post as soon as I get copies... :)