Every summer the Custis Clan goes camping at the KOA in Leavenworth. For those who have not been there is it amazing! Miles parents (Marilyn and John) and his sisters Andrea Mathews and Krista Wilks, and their families all come. We "Tent" at the campsite which is usually 3 campsites to fit 3 tents and and an entire campsite alone for our "food" storage, kitchen, area where we have a large circle of various sized chairs where we spend a lot of time relazing, laughing together. We alwasy have a wonderful time. Although "they" all have been doing it for many years this was Miles and My 3rd year. The kids love it too. Andrea and Jason Matthew's family has 3 kids - Kelsey (9), Jenna (7), Alex (3) and Krista and Mark Wilk's family also have 3 kids Nathan (12), and the twins Megan and Josh (8)
This clan usually spends one day on a hiketo Isicle Ridge. This year we approached our hike as usual to find that the melted snow pack was unusually fast this year and washed out the road. The pictures were amazing. The long road in we usually take to start our hike was completely covered in water. It was unbelievable.
We parked a ways and found another train that someone had made and we took that trying to find the rangers station to get more information. We went pretty far into the woods following along the newly formed trail with the "road" to our left and rushing water over it. It did not appear at all to be a road just a normal river bed. We came out of the woods to find part of the road we were used to driving on that the river bipassed. There were CARS parked on it. These cars had been stranded. That is how fast this water overtook the road. We were remembering how there was an unusally hot day in May and thought that many people would haveheaded there for a day of hiking and probally got caught there then. Crazy. The cars were packed nicely with camping gear and now that the road was washed away and white rapids took it over there was no way those cars were getting out. We wondered how the people got out. Probablly had to be evacuated by helicopter or something. How do you explain that to your insurance company? The cars were not damaged in any way. Completely stranded....on an open road...not a scratch..but no way to get them off that road? Really how does that work?
Oh we do so much fun stuff while in Leavenworth. We go to the Lake Chelan's Slides Waters. It is a wonderful water slide park where we spend the whole day in the hot sun rafting down on huge tubes crashing into one another and with big splashes. Even Alex enjoyed himself on a few of the slides. In the afternoons we usually spent them getting wet at the KOA pool. Camping in Eastern Washington in the summer means HOT HOT HOT afternoons. The KOA pool is always a relief from the heat.
Here are some more pictures of fun around the camp.
1 comment:
Where have I been that I didn't know you had a blog?! I stumbled over this tonight and have been pouring over the pictures and reading your posts. I've gotten completely distracted from what I was supposed to be doing.
The Leavenworth Reunion photos are fun to see! I went camping once with your folks once when I was single and really enjoyed it. However, Uncle Frank is not exactly into camping, although he might change his mind if he ever tried it with my brother. We go hiking instead.
Love to you both!!
Aunt C
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