It has become a yearly tradition to go camping the weekend after the 4th of July with some friends here in Wisconsin. This is the 3rd year we have camped with this group, and it has been so much fun! This year we camped at Devil's Lake on one of the group camp sites. It was a perfect site for our group; the site was private, offered shade, and was big enough for all our tents and stuff! We had such a great weekend. Tent camping 28 weeks pregnant was ok, I was a bit nervous but I had no issues. The only thing that was really difficult was having to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night with the bathrooms being far away. I just embraced my woods-woman self and peed behind our tent in the woods :). Worked out pretty well! The weather cooperated for the most part, Alec and I and one other couple arrived a little earlier on Friday and we knew there was a chance of rain but just started setting up. Well.... half way through getting our tents up it started pouring rain! We quick set them up, and then Jennifer and I ran and sat in the car while Preston and Alec finished up setting up the tents. They were completely drenched!
This isn't the best picture, took it from sitting in the car. But you can get a pretty good idea of how pouring rain it was and how completely soaked the guys are:
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This is a few of the guys having a speed walking competition:
Saturday morning we moved our breakfast into one of the covered picnic pavilion areas because it was supposed to rain again (never did). Oh well, better safe than sorry:
We went for a hike around the lake, I was only able to do the first half of it since the second half was going up that huge hill pictured behind us. Here is a picture of all the girls that went:
Group picture!
Later that afternoon it got really hot so we hit the beach! All of us girls brought blow-up rafts to float in the lake, we had rope and tied ourselves together so we all floated together. It was heaven!
Our area we claimed at the beach:
Relaxing at the campsite:
