Day 9

Drinking Hot Chocolate

Dennis, the photographer

Back to hike by Jacob's creek

An old mine

Esrey Park

Leslie let the boys use her tools to make things with clay!

Boys with Leslie

Adam trying to ride with two scooters.

Eli woke up this morning and said, " when its night out its time to go to bed. When its morning its time to wake up. Its morning so its time to wake up!"  After breakfast I took a scooter ride around with Eli. Then the older boys took a bike ride with Daddy to the fort store to get ice. The boys watched the swimmers in the triathlon while they took turns spraying a water canon that was left by the lake. Around 11:30 we headed up Brockway Mt. We made sandwiches for lunch at ate them up there. Around 12:30 we meet Jared's coworker and his family at the jampot. We got some goodies and then walked up to look at Jacob's falls. We decided to take them to hike the trails on the Monastery grounds.The boys loved leading the way and showing Darren and his family all the things they learned on our last hike through this woods. After our hike we headed to Copper Harbor. On our way we stopped at Esrey park and hiked up on the rocks there. We saw 3 orr boats. We'd left Norman in the van and he jumped out Jared's window and was hanging by his leash. We also stopped at Dennis and Leslie's shop. Eli fell asleep on the drive and continued sleeping in the van. Leslie let Jacob and Adam make some thing from clay and they got to used her tool. They really enjoyed that - thank you Leslie! Jacob wanted to show Dennis the campground so they stopped there for a short time before leaving. Eli woke up just before dinner was ready. I helped Jacob knit a couple more rows on his scarf. This evening we went to the Berry Patch for ice cream with Grandma and Grandpa. Then we sat by the fire until bedtime.