Eastern WA Camping Weekend

This past weekend Brad and I drove to Eastern Washington to spend the weekend camping at the Sun Lakes state park. It was our first time using our new tent that we received as a wedding gift. Thanks Bill and Belinda! We met up with our family Jen and Brian, Marc and Anna and the kiddos Grace, Ezra, and Audrey and our friends Josh and Mishal with their kids Reed, Jack , and Lauren, Danny and Lexi with their son X, and Lexi's parents Bob and Cindy. Our drive to Eastern was.....interesting. We hit Marysville and Josh and Mishal had a flat tire on their RV so we played with the kids at the rest stop for an hours or two and waited for Les Schwab to showed up. They finally showed up, but no tire. So we drove a few exits down to another Les Schwab and hung out in the parking lot as it got fixed and ate lunch. This is the cutest picture I've ever taken of my niece Audrey. Isn't she the cutest!

Grace being goofyLunch at Les SchwabKiddos showing off their musclesWe finally got on the road again and saw Jen and Brian with another flat tire on their boat. At this point flat tires were amusing. So, we pulled over and helped out.

We finally made it to our camping site. We set everything up and had dinner with everyone and visited. Since it was hot over there we had to have Jenn's Birthday celebration on Friday when we got there so that the cake wouldn't melt. The plan was to decorate the campsite with streamers and birthday stuff that I bought but because of the flat tire fiasco we arrived at the same time as they did. It was a bummer, but I think she was surprised anyways and had a great birthday. The next morning I woke up with a ton of energy and a big smile on my face so I decided to go for a jog and exercise down by the water. The view was perfect.....I had my iPod music turned up and I was jammin out. It was awesome. We spent most of our day hanging out by the lake on the beach getting tan and relaxing. It was so much fun to go on the boat, play with the kids on the inflatable island, and jet ski. It was my first time going and it was super fun. I went wake boarding but it didn't go so well...I did a face plant and even a few days later I'm still sore and in pain. Oh well, it was really fun. Can't live life without trying at least.

On Sunday night we went to the Grand Coulee Dam and watched the laser show off the side of the dam. It was pretty cool. I've never seen it before and I had no idea how big the dam really was, its huge! Here is a picture of Brad and I with Gracie and Josh too. He He!

We left Monday morning since I had a few things to do at work that day. Brad and I stopped at this amazing fruit stand and bought the yummiest looking nectarines, apples, and pears. It was so nice to get away for the weekend. Now we're back to reality. Good thing we are going on our honeymoon really soon! (I'll post more pictures once I get photos from Brad's camera. These are the photos I took with my big Nikon.)