Snowmachine Adventure

January 27, 2007, we decided to brave a trip out to Bible camp on snow machines, with the kids. We intended to take Phoenix as well, but for about 3 days prior to the trip, he progressively became sicker and sicker. So he spent half of the day with Paul and the other half with Raychel.

We drove out to the Nancy Lake Marina and then mounted our snow machines. Once on Nancy Lake, we followed portage trails through the lake system to end up at Midnight Sun Bible Camp on Lynx Lake. Hearing 12 snow machines (ranging from my little 380 to a couple of Bombardiers) rev up and take off together was fun for the whole family. For a few of the little ones (about 2 1/2 years old), the noise was intimidating at first. Once safely out at camp, we snow tubed, rode our machines around, had lunch and hot cocoa followed by more fun in the snow. So here is the low down of the pictures:

1- At the Nancy Lake Marina, Kira is just waiting to get going (huge helmet and all).

2- Patrick is ready too.
3- Lunch and hot cocoa at the "Hilton" at camp. You can see that everyone is still in snow gear because it was colder in the building than outside. We started a fire, but the building is big enough that the fire would take a while to heat it up.

4- The adults standing at the top of the tubing hill...I wonder who noticed I was taking the picture.

5- Matt Hickman is preparing to flip off of the "Hilton" porch into the powder below.

6- The aftermath.

7- Lori Guyer helps situate Kira and Quinn for a double ride down the hill on the snow tube.

8- Faith and Ben after picking him up and bringing him back to the top of the hill on the snow machine. (Several people picked up the kids at the bottom of the hill and let them ride up to the top because it took them so long to get up there via walking.)

9- Scott Guyer is proof that even the adults took a few turns sliding down the hill on the tubes.