Sept 4-7, our family, Marcus & Laura, Mom & Lorraine, Marlin & Janice, Klarissa Bauman, Tony Bauman and Ray Hess went camping at Raystown. We had beautiful weather while we were there, it rained monday morning before we got up and then it was just cloudy for the rest of the day. This was our camp sites, Mom, Lorraine and the children slept in the pop-up.  
Gene & I, Marcus & Laura slept in our 2 room tent and Marlin's slept in their camper.  
Ray and Tony slept in this tent 
Our eating place   
Marlin and Laura grilling hamburgers 
Victoria, Klarissa, Kayla and Kyle fishing  Looks like they caught some fish, Great job Victoria 
Way to go Kayla 
Tyler even caught one 
Everyone enjoyed swimming the lake, the water felt so good on those hot days. Klarissa, Victoria, Tyler and Kayla enjoying the water. 
Tyler love to through rocks in the water 
Tony and Kyle 
Tyler & Kyle 
As you can see not all of us were swimming, I'm in the raft and mom is sitting in the chair. 
We took our john boat up too, the children had fun taking rides in it 
We had scrapple and eggs for breakfast one morning, we had many helping hands to help cook our food, this is Marcus & Laura. 
Marlin 
Gene and Marlin tasting the food to see if it was done  
Janice making the eggs 
I made pancakes one morning and we didn't have a whisk, so what better way to make sure everything was mixed up was to mix it with my hands. Don't worry my hands were clean.  
Gene and Marlin frying the pancakes over the fire 
I was stirring the eggs 
The highlight of camping was taking jet ski rides, Gene is taking Ray for a ride. 
Victoria, Gene and Kyle 
Kayla, Gene and Tyler 
Gene, Klarissa and Laura 
Marcus brought his water balloon sling shot along. Marcus,Tony and Ray had fun throwing them at the people on the jet ski and to see how far they would go before the balloons hit the water.  
The children had fun riding their bikes 
Lorraine and Janice making chicken for supper  
I was making mac & cheese 
Monday morning it rained and was cloudy for the rest of the day 
Marcus, Gene and Ray are trying there hand at fishing.   
The children made this mud man  
Playing Old Maid 
One of our friends Jeff Bang brought his boat up and gave us rides, even though it was not very warm. 
It was full moon while we were there and it looked beautiful shining over the water. 
Monday sept. 7 was a year that our best friend Merle Seibel drowned while we were camping at Raystown last year. We miss him very much but I know he is in a much better place now. ~Later~ | 
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