Over Labor Day weekend, our family went to family camp out on the Olympic Peninsula! It was so fun and I looked forward to it all summer! It's at a summer camp called Camp Robbinswold, which is run through the Girl Scouts, and they offer one weekend a summer for families to come and go to camp together! This means open air cabins, sleeping bags and lots to pack!
We took Friday off and decided to head over Puget Sound a day early. We rode the Bremerton ferry, which we hadn't done yet, and really enjoyed the gorgeous views.
In Bremerton we mostly hung around, ate and enjoyed a park that had these erupting fountains down near the ferry building.
The next day we drove out to the edge of the Hood Canal where camp is located. We found our assigned cabin and got excited about our new home!
View of the water from inside our cabin...
The next few days were spent doing all kinds of low-key activities around camp. Canoeing, hiking, touching sea creatures, arts and crafts, throwing rocks in the water, catching crabs, finding the hidden disposable cameras and taking photos, eating family-style in the lodge and going to the campfire.
Some cabin neighbors caught a crab in their crab trap and shared some with Bennett, who loved it!
Bennett won Bingo!
The kids wanted to do the Polar Bear Plunge (jumping into the cold water at 7 AM one morning) so Michael agreed to go with them as the adult supervision.
When the time came, though, they both had second thoughts. Michael jumped in to show them how it's done...
But both kids kept crying on the dock! I was there for them, but only half-heartedly because I was too busy laughing SO HARD at poor Michael, who didn't even want to do the damn thing, and was now the ONLY one of us in the freezing water going along with the counselor-led Hokie Pokie.
For some reason, Bennett decided he wanted in and jumped in to a bunch of applause from the group.
June also jumped in, mostly because she was under the impression that only people who went in got hot cocoa afterward. She DID NOT enjoy it and was the last one in and the first one out!
Here she is making her way up to the open-air shower cabin!
Each family got a complimentary portrait taken with costumes. Michael and I went for 'evil' costumes while the kids went 'good.'
We had such a great time. I really hope we're able to keep coming here each year and making these sweet summer memories!
