Our second trip to the mountains was supposed to be a trip to the cabin that the City of Greeley employees have access to. Unfortunately, the rains washed out the road up to the cabin, so they closed the cabin until the middle of July.
Instead, we took a camping trip to one of my favorite lakes, North Michigan Reservoir. We went there a lot when I was a kid, so I was pretty excited to share it with Neal, Joey, and Neal's parents. We were up there for two nights and had SO much fun.
We stopped at the Moose Visitor's Center on our way to the lake and Joey thought it was so fun. They have buttons that play the sounds of moose and elk when you push them. Joey pushed the buttons so many times in a row that we finally had to take him outside because it was getting a little annoying.
When we got to our campsite, we set up our tent and Neal's parents' tent. Then we took Joey down to the lake and let him wade around for a little bit. Then we drove around for a while, discovering new places while Joey took a nap. When Neal's parents arrived, we ate dinner, ate smores, and then put Joey to bed. After he went to sleep we spent the evening sitting around the fire, talking.
The next day, after breakfast, we drove to a trail head, and by the time we got there Joey had fallen asleep. We decided to go 4-wheeling instead, and took an old logging road around a mountain. It was kind of depressing to see the amount of beetle kill that has happened up there. We also discovered several other trails that we'd like to hike someday.
After lunch, we went and did the hike that we were planning on doing that morning. The trail was called the "Beaver Lodge Trail." They had a little brochure that had different stopping points marked so you could learn about the nature around you. We actually learned a lot about the history of North Park while we were on that hike.
In the evening, we drove around the lake to show Neal's parents some of the things we had found the day before. While we were driving we saw three fox kits wrestling each other. It was pretty funny to watch because dad kept running away from them when they tried to get him to play with them, and mom just laid there and ignored them jumping all over her. It was SUPER cute.
We unfortunately did see any moose, but we did hear bats fly around us as the sun went down. We thought it was a bird originally, but then realized that the "call" we thought we were hearing was actually the wind moving through the bats wings.
Joey loved being allowed to play in the dirt and get as dirty as he wanted. He did really, really well while we were up there. We discovered that the secret to getting him to sleep IN his sleeping bag was to put him in it after he had been asleep for a while.
We really had a good time, and can't wait to go back up there to do more exploring and to take Joey fishing.
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