Camping!

Some of our friends here (Nate Smith and Lisa Lerwick), were brave enough to take us camping with them... They let us borrow a bunch of their gear, as we're rookie campers & only had camp chairs & pillows (which wouldn't have been quite enough for that rainy night). :-) However, they've convinced us to make camping a more often occurrence, so we'll work on upgrading our lack of camping equipment. Thanks Nate & Lisa!
Getting camp set up - We camped at Nathaniel Mountain in West Virginia.Peter was shooting this picture from the base of the log to get a neat angle on the photo - maybe not so flattering of his wife though...
Peter & I
Nate was the gourmet dinner chef - awesome hot dogs, sausages & vegetables.
... and Lisa made a delicious German chocolate, caramely, nutty, brownie goodness for dessert!
Gourmet snacks too!
Nate & Lisa
Then the morning of July 4th, we packed up & headed down to the Potomac River. It was fairly balmy out, a bit humid & drizzly, but we had a fantastic time! The river doesn't have many "rapids" so it's great for canoeing. Very relaxing.
Getting ready to take off - 7 mile canoe ride ahead of us.
Yo.
A bald eagle! We saw a number of them while we were floating - but this one just sat in the tree while we bobbed along underneath him. Pretty amazing!
Lots of geese...
Just eatin' away ~
The brawn & brains of our canoe!
Beautiful...
The rest of the photos here!