Labor Day weekend camping trip at Lake Emily

So here is the camp site for Lake Emily. It was beautiful and couldn't ask for better weather! This site is clean the bathrooms are actually decent! the rent-a-site that we were in was really large and we had 3 families on it with room to spare. the kids had this one area that they mainly used for playing light saber fights. The camp grounds have these great big shower rooms that you can sit in. There was also a bird of prey presentation that was super cool! They guy had a live hawk, owl and a turkey vulture with him. All of them were at one time hit by cars, but where rescued and now used for this educational program. I wasn't able to see the presentation because I was dealing with buying firewood and reorganizing our tent. So, all the above info I received from my kids.
Pictured below is our tent and it's kinda hard to tell, but the lake is behind us just beyond the trees. We woke up every morning to this magnificent view.

We had a great time at the lake. Of course getting to and from the lake meant trekking up and down some major stairs. Quite the work out, but totally worth it!

We rented a boat and John took the boys fishing. Zach is laying down against Caleb in his blue hat. He looks totally relaxed. He later told me he got a nibble but didn't catch anything.
To my surprise the kids were not freaked out by minnows in the lake. They actually chased them!
And then to top off the vacation we celebrated Nathan's 2nd birthday with cupcakes! Doesn't get any better than this.I don't know if we will return next year but, at least we can catalog this vacation for the most part a positive. We did have one hiccup on our last night of camping. I won't got in to details of exactly what happened. But, basically we had 2 sleeping bags that we were not able to use. So the kids had to sleep in the back of Jenny's van with a thermal blanket and some other blankets were were able to scrounge up. It all worked out in the end.