Golden Campground

We booked a campsite 6 months ago so we could visit with Logan's family (remember the boy I used to watch?) at Lake Michigan. Hyuibin, his mom, moved with them to Grand Rapids, just 30 minutes from the beach. In order to get a camp site at any of the good campsites by the beach, you have to book about 6 months in advance. Of course, it turned out to be the worst weather for the beach the whole summer.

We drove right into the storm that finally hit our home in Canton. It rained the entire night on Friday, hard. There were some thunderstorms too. On Saturday it rained off and on in the morning and we got some drizzles while we were at the beach, but it wasn't too bad then. Just cloudy, windy, and not as hot as it had been, so I was kind of cold. The stormy weather made for more waves for this time of year, too. Yes, Lake Michigan has waves. I know in the winter they get pretty big, but I didn't expect them to be as big as they were in August. The kids thought it was the best ride ever!

We brought a good friend of Victoria's with us on the trip, Brynn. Her brother is Logan's older brother, Jaden's, best friend. Hyuibin and Brynn's mom Michelle are good friends too. When Logan wasn't at my house he was at Michelle's. Michelle couldn't take off work over the weekend, but ended going up to Hyuibin's Sunday night. When we left Sunday morning to make it back for church, we left Brynn there to be with her mom when she arrived. It made it a fun reunion to have a representative from the Riley family with us visiting with Logan's family.

We turned our full-size bed into a table, finally. It was too wet to eat outside for breakfast.

Cold water, but fun times!

Frisbee was hard in the wind.

Sand castles.

Austin liked riding the waves in.

So did Erik.

Burying Brynn.

Jason is waving from the water.

It's hard to see our group with the other people around.

Jaden and Hyuibin.

Cold kids. Austin is in the hoodie.

Back at the campsite. Karissa, Victoria, Jaden, Brynn, Erik, Logan, Austin.

Jason, AJ, Valerie, Jaden, Hyuibin

We made dutch oven pizza- so good!

We decided we need to make it a yearly tradition to go to Lake Michigan over the summer. The weather didn't ruin it for us!