Red Feather Lakes - Part 2 of 2

After yesterday's festivities, we retired to our tents but then some huge storms rolled in.  Around 8 or 9 pm, we started getting heavy rain and crazy lightning.  Josh and Andrea (and their parents) all rolled in with campers, so the kids quickly retreated to inside the campers.  I was stuck, however, in the tent trying to close things up and the lightning was striking so close and so often that I rode out the storm inside the tent for at least 30 minutes until it felt safer to get over to a camper.

The next morning, the sun was out and early morning pancakes were on order.  This picture shows the famous or infamous pancake toss which is the only way you are allowed to receive a breakfast pancake when camping with the Schmidts!  Gavin is back in a horse corral trying to catch his...better not drop it in there or it won't be worth eating.

I was in full training mode still over the summer, so I took off on an hour run through the dirt countryside and was greeted back to camp by dual hot pancakes.  Hard to really beat that!  I certainly got some funny looks running on the back roads around this place as we were pretty remote and it is all super steep, short, uphill and downhill sections.

The boys put on some war paint (aka guy-lash per Gage) to play some football.  Not quite sure if this helped or not but they certainly had fun as a crew adventuring around the camp together and inventing sports games to play.  Thanks to Josh and Andrea for the invite, it was tons of fun to get away and enjoy the outdoors!