This last week we went camping up in the "mountains" at Smith Mountain Lake. The reason I put quotation marks around mountains is because we were at about 1100 feet. That elevation qualifies as foot hills in the west, but since I'm not in the west I will call them mountains. It was beautiful! We had some rain but we had a travel trailer so we stayed dry! We hadn't been camping since we moved to Virginia so Philip and I decided it was time to get our kids (and us) back out camping. It was so fun being with the kids. We fished off a pier one afternoon. You can see in the pictures each of the kids hanging over the edge of the pier and lying down sunning themselves. After a while Hannah came over quite sad and said that she had dropped her fishing pole off the pier. Philip put his biggest lure on his fishing pole and went fishing for a fishing pole. He had seen my dad go fishing for a bicycle one time off the docks in Hells Canyon. Luckly Hannah's pole had a bobber on it so we could tell where it was even though it was several feet under the water. It was the best catch (and only catch) of the day! We also hiked down to Turtle Island and fished there. Jacob caught a big fish but as he was getting it on the rocks it slipped off and swam away, but we all saw it! It was big! In the jerkey bag is a bunch of shells the girls collected. So much fun and so many great memories. The girls also participated in the Easter egg hunt the state park hosted.
