Friends From Canada

Ivan and Natalya, our friends from Canada, came down to PA for a week to visit.

 During that time we all made many memories and had many laughs!   

On Tuesday Joshua, Ivan, and I (after much begging) went on a deep sea fishing trip.

  

We caught Flounder, Black Sea Bass, and Ling.

While Ivan, Joshua, and I were fishing, Lillia was showing Natalya all the local shops.

Wednesday afternoon we went to Hershey Chocolate World and went on the factory tour.

Going on the tour.

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On Thursday we went to the beach.  Natalya had been to the beach when she was young but had little memory of it.  We picked a perfect day to go and there weren't as many people there as could have been. 

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While us girls were at the beach, the boys went overnight camping/hiking on Hurricane Mountain in the Adirondacks, New York.

The Fire Tower at the top.

Picking blueberries 

Not far from Hurricane Mountain is the Boquet River, which is a great place to cool off  after the hike.  In the right pic Joshua and Ivan are climbing up to do some cliff jumping.  It's definitely bigger then it looks.

Trips to the pond were taken to cool off.

Looks like Ivan has an admirer.

A road trip to Indiana in 'The Party Bus'

After getting a big blessing at church and then wonderful fellowship afterwards our family flew home. Joshua, Lillia, Ivan, and Natalya went to Still Waters Camp.

Still Water Camp pictures to come...

A Day on the Lake

Day two at the Raystown Lake also happened to be the last day for this too short of a vacation.

A few very excited kids and a dad waking us all up in their enthusiasm to get down to the lake and onto water.   I hope you all enjoy this short video I put together of our day on the water.

Raystown Lake | part 1

My Dad thought it would be fun to do a little trip to Raystown Lake about 3 hours from our home.

The lake was made from the damming of the Juniata River and stretches more than 25 miles long. 

After setting up our campsite we walked down to the lake to do some fishing.

David wasn't satisfied with just being on the shore, so he waded in. 

He caught a few striped bass but the size limit is 20 inches.

So we roasted hotdogs for dinner instead of fish.

Benjamin and his tiny fish.

Serenah's not sure if she likes Mr. Otter.

We decided to walk down to the marina where there is a fish feeding station. WOW!  We were surprised to see how many fish were at the shore waiting for someone to come along. 

Although they were ugly Carp it was still cool to watch them go crazy over the food that you threw in.    You had to take a step back if you didn't want to get splashed!

Not sure what this is about, can you guess? 

Serenah finished up the last of the popcorn just as our day was finishing.

Stay tuned for day two!