For Memorial Weekend we were invited by some of our really good friends to join them at Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. It was such a great weekend. We spent every moment we could outside! We hiked, we boated, we played games, and we sat around plenty of fires. It was great!
It was fun to drive from DC through all of the small towns in Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. Some of them looked like them looked like they were ghost towns from the past and others have been kept up and are quaint reminders of small town America.
The house was HUGE. Plenty of room of all of us. It was a perfect place to spend a long weekend in nature.
Lucky Dragon found an animal under a big rock by the fire. There was no wonder that he found it by the firepit because he spent all of his spare time at the fire. He was either building a fire bigger or getting ready for the next fire. When we did not know where he was, we just had to look outside and he was there burning things! haha
He was patient and once we confirmed there was an animal by hearing it, he fed it some food and then we sat and waited until we could see it poke its head out of the burrow. It turned out to be a Groundhog.
We went on a few hikes. One was Swallow Falls Trail. It was so amazing. There were several sets of falls to see. We walked in a loop. During the loop we saw a large dramatic fall. A longer rapid type falls which we watch kayakers go down--that was cool. And finally some small falls with pools to wade in.
We stood there and cheered as the kayakers braved the rapids an the falls. It looked like so much fun. A few of us were plotting how we could try it!
This guy carried a bag with him to collect dry leaves and branches to burn in his next fire! HAHA
The other hike we did was Deep Creek Lake State Park. It was about a 2.5 mile hike and was so beautiful. The two Muggles did not like it as much because it didn't have water to see (or throw rocks into). But we did loved all the different flowers, rocks, and trees.
These three were so excited to find a geo-cache. It made us excited for Germany because there are plenty of people that do geo-caching there.
Us sitting and waiting for the Groundhog to show himself.
When we were not sure something was actually down there...
He thought it was interesting how the worms made their own circular patterns on rocks.
One of the days we rented a boat. In theary it was a really good idea. However, the day was SO cold! I think it was good there was a hot tub at the house so we could thaw after being on the boat. Koala Bear was brave enough to jump in. It is hard to not be near water and not want to jump in. But when she and I went, it was 47 degrees in the wind and 57 degrees in the water! haha. But we did it! Then later in the day everyone else decided to get in too.
We all fished, but did not catch anything. At least we tried! Haha
This girl is SO strong!
We were glad we brought extra towels to stay warm. It was cold but fun!
The fire was the 'happy place' for our two Muggles! I loved that they were together and that they wanted to be outside.
It was such a great weekend! We laughed and had a great time. I am glad that we were able to go. With all that is going on between the end of school and moving, we were not sure if we could pull it off, but glad we did! We even learned how much our friends LOVE eating butter! hahahaha
