Otsego Lake

Good Old Al's. The same candy store I used to go to as a kid.
Enjoying the very warm lake.
Audrey trying to learn to cast.
Loving our pie iron pizza's and camp fires.
Daddy and Audrey caught a small mouth bass.
Eating a smores.
Audrey learned to play chess and did a great job (although I don't know what she's playing here). I don't even know how to play!
Ben celebrated his 33rd bday on vacation.
Playing putt putt at Call of the Wallet.

We had such a great time last year at Arbutus Beach that we decided to go back again. We stayed at a different cottage this year, one right on the lake. That was very nice!

The weather was an improvement over last year but still not great. The lake was very warm since we've had such a hot summer. We had a long dock off our beach. It was only about 2 feet at the end of it so it was great for the kids.

The highlights of the week were: having campfires with pie iron pizzas, smores and wine, celebrating Ben's 33rd birthday, watching Audrey learn to play chess (and actually understand what she is doing), going in the paddle boat, watching Audrey and daddy fish, making sand castles with Sawyer, watching the bald eagles fly over the lake, watching the sunsets, going to Al's Candy Store, playing mini-golf at the same place I used to go when I was little, and just having lots of time with the whole family together without any interruptions!