YEE HAW Monday ;-)

Diane here...

What an incredible day.  Such a beautiful, glorious day.  Totally.

We spent the day on Lake Mead.  We rented one of those patio boats, we cruised and sauntered and zoomed around, and we soaked in the beauty of the lake and the desert shoreline.  And another generation fell in love with Lake Mead.

We said WOW a bazillion more times. We saw Hoover Dam from the lake side, (oh wow), we parked on a super-sandy beach and played and played and built a sand castle, and splashed and swam and got sunkissed and felt Sonkissed.  Derek and Kai went tubing, she hung on tightly to Daddy, and Daddy taught her how to speak boat language with her hands....faster/slower/ok/blow kisses/stop. Jack took a nap on the boat snuggled in his life vest (built in pillow).  The doggies swam swam swam, and then they swam s'more. We jumped off the boat and screamed (well, Abby and I did) and yelled HI-YAH. The water was still in 70's, and the air was like...in the 80's.  Can you believe it?  We couldn't either. A surprisingly warm and  perfect November day.  We were all SO THANKFUL. Yee---Hah.

And one of the best parts for me..... is that ..... I grew up camping on this lake with my family, some of my most-favorite memories ever. Keith grew up camping here with his family.  Our families probably camped right next to each other, but we didn't know it :-).   And, when Keith and I were married we brought Abby and Nick here. Our golden retrievers have done the doggie paddle here.   And now to share it with Derek and Kai and Jack (and Chester and Bailey) for the very first time. It is so over-the-top, so much fun.  Another generation of lake-lovers.

So that was our day.

Now it p.m. is 7:16.  The dogs are sound asleep.  Kai and Jack and sound asleep. And the rest of us are fixen'-to-be-ready to head that way.   A full day.  And full hearts.

The view from our campsite... Maxine's Pad ;-)

Is she so cute or what?

Happy Camper

Nothing like driving the boat with Daddy ;-)

As Abby mentioned in her last post ~~sometimes we wonder if the next stop can get any better. It seems each stop IS "the best".  This is such an incredible journey, with such incredible surprises along the way.   And during this month of thankfulness, I, we, are so thankful!