The Call Family Vacation 2009

We had our annual family vacation and Richard has been dying to take us to the hidden lakes up to Palisades, so he saw an opportunity and took it. I don't really think that everyone was so excited about it but they all agreed. But a week before we left Stephen and Kami had something come up with his family so they couldn't go with us the whole time but they did go most of the way with us and then turned around and went back home. The first night we camped at the base of the trail, and then headed up early the next morning after a bowl of delicious cold cereal.




























Here is everyone getting there backpacks on for the hike.






























































We came to a bridge and the water was beautiful everyone decided to take a break





















This is the lake that we finally made it too. The next day Kory decided that he wanted to get to the little island out there and the water was kind of cold so he decided to gather logs and everyone thought that was a great idea so they all started collecting logs. It turned out great and they had fun.














Shane and Krystal did some awesome fishing for us. The fish was great eating.









All morning on Saturday mom was yelling at everyone to stay away from her pot because she was cooking her muffin/pancake and she didn't want anybody to knock it over so after it was all done mom was taking it out of the pan....she drops it and I don't think the 10 second rule applies in the mountains but mother was hungary and she WANTED that muffin/pancake so they salvaged all they could.








Krystal is our popcorn fanatic. She eats it as much as she can so she packed up a jiffy popcorn thing on her pack just so she could have some on the trail. Kory had to get in on the fun too.



We sat around the campfire a lot waiting for our meals to cook. But it wasn't the meals that we were use to when we would go camping. Richard would always do his dutch oven cooking and for some reason he would not take up his dutch ovens. But we ate pretty well for packing all of our food up there.















Well we finally made it to the bottom. I even had Richard pack my rock for just a little while. I have to have a rock from our vacations. But I think we were all very tired. We stopped at the square ice cream place and didn't really care what we looked like we just wanted ice cream. Would just like to tell all of our kids thank you very much it was great being together.