Once again we ended up with Jen, Rene, Ryan and Ethan at Lake Chelan. It's usually warm and we love to spend the time in the water.
As always we spent a LOT of time just at the lake near the campground. It's easy access and the kids have a blast. We don't have a picture but we bought another floating pad that attached to the other. So we had this floating island we were playing on. There is a floating dock there but it gets really crowded. This one we were able to tow around wherever we wanted.
This year Kayda chose to bring her best friend Ivy with her since there is no one to be her buddy in the group. She introduced Ivy to Pokemon Go and they played a lot of volleyball. Fortunately Ivy was able to keep up with Kayda's water loving habits.
Rene brings their propane fire pit along every year but this time we actually took it out! It was really nice to sit around a fire, we've never done it before because there are no fires allowed in the park (unless they're propane). Every year Jen has us make smores at one of the stoves but this year we got to use a fire instead... just FYI, it is surprisingly difficult to toast a marshmallow well using a propane stove.
Carson wanted to spend his birthday at the water park so that's what we did. It gets more fun each year because the kids keep getting more independent. We definitely go on rides together still but it's nice to hang out as adults too. I think the all around favorite is a tube ride that has multiple pools you work your way down. You can slide down and splash each other and bump people over the edge of the pool.
We added a couple of new activities this year. One was floating the Wenatchee River in Leavenworth. We bought our own tubes and parked a car at each end. Our friends rented tubes so we had to wait for them but it ended up being a really fun day. It took me a while to be less paranoid about snags and such. Eventually I relaxed and we were able to play more.
After our tubing we did a quick look around Leavenworth while we ate ice cream.
Our other new activity was renting a boat. We rented the boat for a full day (8 hours) which, by hour 2 seemed like too much. We stopped and ate some lunch and then the time flew by. Unfortunately, Dillon spent a lot of the time feeling sick, despite medicine (I didn't give it to him before our day). We got a lot of tubing in and stopped to swim in some of the deeper sections. It's really neat to swim down 10 feet and still be able to see around you. The water there is really clear.
