Family Vacation: Part II

After Waterton, we spent Sunday afternoon driving to B.C to the best kept secret around. We pulled into Lazy Lake late in the afternoon and set up camp. We ended up moving camp a little while later after a nice couple left for home. It was right on the lake shore with a gorgeous view!

After camp was all set up, we changed into our suits for a quick dip in the lake. The girls went swimming across the lake and back and had a fun encounter with a few leeches. Camilla tried out her water wings, but wasn't quite brave enough to use them on her own.

 After our swim, we made up tinfoil dinners while running around the camp like crazies to keep the wasps off of us. It started getting chilly, so I changed CJ into some pants a sweatshirt and her sneakers. Within a few minutes of leaving the tent her sneakers found the water. Camilla pretty much refused to wear her shoes the rest of the evening, she takes after me I guess.

 

Sunday night was possibly one of the most romantic nights of maybe my entire life.

These were taken by my talented sister

 After dinner we skipped rocks on the lake. Mr. Stannix told me that this is the very lake where he first learned how to skip rocks. I enjoyed watching my Mr. Stannix skip rocks in the sunset and miss Camilla copy her daddy. The campground consisted of maybe 15 sites. It was quite small and quaint. Lots of people camp there for a few weeks out of the summer each year and know each other quite well. We finished our s'mores just as dark was setting in. We had the picnic blanket out because we were short a chair. The campsite above us started playing songs on the guitar and people from other sites were making their way over to join in. The two girls went up for a bit to join in on the fun and singing. The harmony was beautiful and the guitar players were talented. Mr. Stannix and I stayed back at the fire so that we could keep an ear out for our children who were sleeping soundly in the tent cuddled up next to one another. We layed down on the picnic blanket while the flames in the fire pit danced around. I soaked up everything I could of that moment with all of my senses. We star gazed for the first time in forever together. We were so high up the mountain that the stars seemed so close. We saw two shooting stars streak across the sky. I told Mr. Stannix to make a wish and he told me that he didn't know what to wish for because he had everything. It was so sweet. We continued to star gaze while we held hands and listened to the guitars play. By the end of the night we had counted six shooting stars! SIX! I had never seen that many in a row before. These weren't just little ones either, some of them were pretty awesome and lasted a long time! Nothing could have topped the way I was feeling that night. S'mores, a picnic blanket, shooting stars, guitars, and good harmony....It felt so good to be so close to Mr. Stannix, just looking at the stars.