Bear Lake

The weekend before school started we got an offer from Mark's coworker to stay in his cabin up at Bear Lake.  We decided to squish one more adventure in to our ending Summer.  I had to sing in church and teach on Sunday, so we went up on Friday night, spent Saturday at the Lake and stopped in Logan to visit Mark's brother and his family on our way home Saturday evening.

This is from the cabin on Saturday morning.  Bear Lake is so beautiful.

The boys and the coworker's grandson were so ready to get out to the lake.  So we headed down to the beach to play for awhile before they put the boat on the water.

It was a fantastic morning without too many people on the lake.  It was the closest I was going to get to a real beach here in Utah and it certainly did not disappoint, until later when the crowds showed up.  I'm glad we went early and enjoyed the crowd free time there.

We played in the sand and water and on the little boat and caught a frog.

Then the big boat showed up and our friends offered us a ride out on the water.

Their boat is super nice and quite large.  It went really fast and we had a blast out there on that gorgeous blue water.

After some time on the water we went back to our place on the beach.  Only we really didn't have a place anymore.  Our stuff was left on and in front of a picnic table and I was shocked that there were just a bunch of guys eating lunch on our table with all our stuff and lounging on the sand where we had put our things. Within an hour people had smashed themselves in there like sardines.  We ate lunch and the kids found more sea shells and then I just couldn't take the crowds of people any longer and we got out of there.

We drove around the lake a bit and checked things out.  We went over to the marina where the boys loved feeding the fish there pieces of bread we had from the car.

Mark drove his friends truck and trailer down to help get that gigantic boat out of the water while we watched.  It was so nice of them to let us stay in their cabin and ride on their boat!  It was a fast and fun little trip!

After some delicious Bear Lake shakes, we said goodbye to the lake and what felt like goodbye to summer knowing it was our last outing before school started.

The kids conked out for the drive to Logan where we stopped to see Mark's brother's family and their new house. Then Mark's brother's family took us to Chuck-a-Rama where we ate ourselves silly.  What a great day and a half!  And yes, we were sunburned and tired, but it was totally worth it!