Toby camping with the Girls!

Hi everyone,  This is Toby (a recent find and best friend)
He is our camping mascot, and keeps us smiling!

The mansion on top of the hill!

This camping extravaganza is at Big Twin Lake in Trimont, MN.  It is a beautiful lake that our friends Nyla and Brad Gerhardt has so generously allowed us to park the camper for the summer.  This week Sharla (Charlie), Patty (Peppermint Patty) and Cousin Jodi (yet to be named, I'll ask her when she wakes up, okay she woke up, her official nickname will be "Snooker"), has come to experience Minnesota at it's finest.  A week with a beautiful forecast (except for 97 with 70% humidity for Wednesday) but, who cares, when you are floating on the lake, the rest doesn't matter.
Day One:  Monday June 25th.
The girls arrived in Fairmont around 12:30 for a quick hand-off of Ollie.  He will be staying with Uncle Steve, Cousin Gracie and brother Otto for a few days.  After a quick shopping trip at Walmart for a few new floaties (which you will see in the following pictures), we were off to the camper.  Judy and Jodi didn't waste any time getting in the water, while Sharla and Patty set up camp.  The rest of the afternoon was floating on the water, enjoying the sun.  I might note that not all of us were relaxing!  Peppermint Patty was the official motor for our rafts.  She kept us from floating to near the shore.  Thanks Peppermint Patty! I wish I had a picture of her pulling us, but it was a little hard to take the picture in my floatie, on the water, with my new camera!  Not that brave!
Happy Hour started around 4:30 (as they say, it was 5:00 somewhere) and we had some great snacks and tried a new drink Jodi found on pinterest.  Well, it sounded good????  It consisted of strawberry pop, wine and vanilla vodka!  After one sip, and decided it sort of tasted like cherry cough syrup, we decided the vanilla vodka would also taste good in diet pepsi and rootbeer!  Hmmmm....sort of like cream soda~

Well, after all the snacks, we decided to skip supper and go out kayaking.  We explored uncharted territories and discovered yellow-headed blackbirds.  After seeing a nice sunset on the water, we raced back to camp and settled into the screen tent for good magazines and conversation.  Bed came too early, according to Judy's rules, but was welcomed by the travelers.  Enjoy a little pictorial of the day! For more pictures go to

Some people just don't like their picture taken?????