Another day, another lake

One day in the evening we took the kids to the wading pool at Green Lake.  We packed a (somewhat meager) picnic dinner, and headed out for an afternoon of water fun. 

Unfortunately we were in the wading pool for all of 5 minutes when they told us to get out, they had to chlorinate it.  So we packed up and headed over to the interesting “beach” on the east side of green lake/  We had our picnic,

then went to play in the muddy sand. 

The view out on the lake was beautiful!

But the kids were very busy in the mud.  Someone before us made a “pool” that the boys took over as soon as it was abandoned. 

Mostly Eli.  He had this elaborate story going on about how this was his nest and he was hatching some eggs, etc.  Finally someone decided we should go in the lake.  It was just the right depth for swimming!

I supervised these aquatic adventures.  It was a beautiful day, but the water was chilly so we headed out after a while.  On the walk back to the car we saw the wading pool was open and we stopped for a while there since we had missed out earlier. 

I think Eli was telling me a story here.  He has a lot to say!