Bear Lake 2013!!

 

Another amazing Bear Lake vacation with the Smith family!

 This year our family did back-to-back Bear Lake vacations with both sides of the family.  Luckily we made the first week more about adventures and exploring the area and enjoying Raspberry Days, so when we headed to camping and beaching at Bear Lake we were ready for it! 

It's always a lot of fun to be with the big Smith family.  All the kids and adults enjoy visiting with each other.  One of the neatest things that you see at Bear Lake is different groups of kids playing together.  You really see everyone play so well with everyone else.  This year we were missing our  missionaries...Ashlee, Andrew, and for the last 3 days...Zachary.  We also didn't have Darla and Brady with us, as they had to work.  But we had everyone else there!

At the end of last year, we decided that we wanted to stay an extra day at Bear Lake now.  We decided that we wanted 3 full days of beach fun and so we made our reservation for 5 days.  That includes arrival and departure day, so you end up with 3 full days.  It was nice.  We ended up leaving Thursday night, but it was nice not having to check out Thursday morning.  I think we decided to do it that way again last year.

 We also moved to the group site this year and we loved it!  We had our own big pavilion, a fire pit on the beach and a ton of room for our tents.  We hit the jackpot with the group site.  We hope we can get it again going forward!

So many memories are made at Bear Lake for our family.  It is truly the best tradition we have.  Our children look forward to it every year and every year it turns out to be amazing!