Autumn Lakes in the rain

Last weekend we went camping at Autumn Lakes Campground. We hadn't been to this campground before but it looked really fun (according to the website) so we ventured there. We had a fabulous time - rain and all!

On Friday, Erik went home to work while we went to tour the Velvet Ice Cream mill with the Masts. We couldn't really go into the factory but we could watch through the window. After the tour we all got ice cream (obviously!). I got Extreme Mousse Tracks - very chocolaty. Sarah had cookies and cream, Jenna had birthday cake and Matthew had raspberry cordial. It was all delicious - ice cream for lunch is always good. I forgot to get ice cream for Erik (oops!).

Jenna, Sarah and me in a canoe

 Autumn Lakes had canoes you could take out on their little pond. The kids LOVED the canoes. Jenna said it was her favorite part of the trip. The picture shows us canoeing in the rain - we are hard core canoers (canoe-ers? canoeing people?)

Our camper was right next to the lake and it was such a nice view. I loved sitting by the fire at night and looking out over the water.

Matthew loves ice cream

Maddie, Jenna, and Nicholas eating ice cream on tires

On Saturday night we had planned to cook hot dogs and corn on the fire. Tricia and family had come to visit us at the campsite as well. Unfortunately we were stuck in a downpour. So we went to a Chinese buffet. I love Chinese buffets so I wasn't complaining. As soon as we left the buffet the sun was shining. Apparently God wanted us to go to a Chinese buffet.

On Sunday afternoon we had a tornado watch.  Tornado sirens were blaring which scared Sarah such that she was hiding in the basement the whole time. After the rain, we saw beautiful double rainbows. I had a lot of pictures from this weekend and the rainbows but the SD card on my phone decided to die. I was able to salvage some pictures but mostly they are gone or corrupted. Bummer.

We really enjoyed this camping trip and definitely want to go back to Autumn Lakes.