Camping with the Family

After JC came home from his mission me and my family went camping together. It was a lot of fun spending all of that time together after 2 years of being apart. We went up to Whitney Reservoir which is only about 15 mins from my cabin. In fact the turn off for the reservoir is only 5 miles from my cabin. We were there from Monday to Thursday. We were thinking of staying 1 more day but it decided to hail and then rain on us. That made the temperature drop to the 40s and low 50s. No fun while camping.
While camping we sat around a bit, went on walks and hikes, played games, went 4 wheeling, fished, and played at the Reservoir. None of us actually got in the water besides the dog. We were to scared of the cold water. :)
I love going camping with my family. Each time we go I get some very fun, fond memories. Some of the ones from this trip was the hike with my dad and then the rain. The hike I went with my dad was crazy! I wasn't really expecting to go on a hard hike so I didn't bring my hiking boots. Big mistake! My dad picked a hill that has no trail so we made our own trail climbing through the brush, over fallen trees, and around other obstacles. We wanted to go up more on the right side where it wouldn't be as steep. We didn't make it over far enough and ended up going up where it was so steep I almost felt like I was rock climbing on dirt! The view from the top was really gorgeous and on the way down me and my dad found a different root that took us by this natural lake that was almost a perfect square.
The rain was fun in the adventure of it. When it started hailing on us, me and mom were at the van so we quickly moved some of the food and jumped in. Everyone else laughed at us for "hiding." Later that night we all gathered in one of the tents and played hand and foot. My family is weird in that instead of playing in 4 teams of 2, we played in 2 teams of 4. We changed a couple of the rules to make it harder to go down and out (it would have been to easy with so many on 1 team). It truly was a lot of fun.