Green Mountain Reservoir and the fam

We returned to Green Mountain Reservoir, but this time we brought the Hansens and Dickinsons in tow. Tyler and I left early on Thursday morning to secure a campsite. When everyone arrived later that night, we all devoured our ambitiously prepared campfire dinner: corn pone and mac and cheese. Who knew how well a Dutch oven could bake corn bread in the fire?

The meal fueled us for our boating excursion the day. Athena was a model for safety in her life jacket.

The forecast had been for scattered showers, but the sun came out for the four hours we had the pontoon. It took Moses about an hour to gather his sea legs, but was a pretty good sport the whole time. Except when Tyler went to re-dock the boat at a random beach landing — Moses freaked out and thought he was leaving him so he took off into the water. Great Danes are not the most efficient swimmers of the canine family either. After much maneuvering, Tyler was able to come ashore without injuring Moses.

Some of the time during the boat ride was spent working up the courage to jump into the reservoir. As you can see, Ty was not tenative about going in the water. Mazie was extremely enthusiastic about the prospect, and insisted her mother join her. After making sure all of their clothes were carefully folded properly, and that anything that could aid to the procrastination of the the plunge was done, Katie and Mazie ventured to the edge of the boat to take a dip together. As for the video, my reformatting software wasn't cooperating, so you'll just have to watch Mazie and Katie jump in sideways. So just tilt your heads accordingly to remedy the situation:

 

After the plunge, Maxie wanted to go in again, but no one else shared her excitement for the cold water. She didn't even mind that the water had erased half of the face paint from her cheeks.

The clouds must have been keeping an eye on us, because once the boat ride was over, and we made our way back to camp, we waited out the brief rainstorm in the camper. When the rain stopped, we took a walk to Cataract Lake, then spent the evening with brauts, s'mores and campfire songs. For some other pictures, click here.