Lake Wallenpaupack

We've been going to Lake Wallenpaupack at the end of June, for probably five years or so. Lake Wallenpaupack is in Hawley, Pennsylvania, about 2.5 hours from our home in CT. It is a man made lake built for hydroelectric power. It is 13 miles long and has 52 miles of shoreline. It's a great place to vacation for a week....or two, as the case was this year...

FRIDAY, JUNE 18th
We still had one more day of school, but we decided to head to Hawley for the weekend and then come back home on Monday for Funday Monday--the last day of school. It worked out nicely because Christopher had an allergist appointment Monday too--which is another post all in itself! So we braved the Friday traffic on 84 and got there Friday evening just in time to watch the beautiful sunset over the lake. (Wordless Wednesday pic for July 7th)

We arrived at the condo Friday evening...

We walked to our quiet special little spot on the lake...

We sat and watched some men fishing....

We also threw in some rocks...
SATURDAY, JUNE 19th
Today we did some geocaching, of course! We love to Geocache!!! :) Here are pictures of the kids and some TB's or Travel Bugs that they found!We found some great places as we followed the coordinates!

Here is one example...

We followed a narrow little road, over a little bridge and found the most beautiful waterfalls--and a geocache of course!

We drove around a lot in the van searching out great spots to explore, hike and geocache. Here is a picture of Anneli in her carseat as she rode in the van...

Here are some pictures of Pepere (my dad), Anneli and Christopher being silly with her hat & mask as we rode.

What a great Pepere!!

As I said above, we hiked a lot as we followed the corrdinates on our GPS to Geocache locations. The parks and gameland areas in Pennsylvania are gorgeous! We saw some beautiful spots like this mother deer and her baby, and found some interesting finds... Sorry!! The kids thought it was pretty cool!

Anneli was tired out after all the adventures as we drove back to our condo that afternoon/evening.

Luckily, she was rested up for our next adventure at the pool by the lake.

SUNDAY, JUNE 20th (Father's Day!!)

Today we jumped in the van with Memere and Pepere and headed to Kitattinny Canoes for a super fun Father's Day adventure. We went rafting down the Delaware River! It was fun, adventurous and relaxing! The Delaware River is beautiful! We saw eagles soaring above us, and watched two fawns frolicing on the side of the river as their mother watched them as we floated down the river... What a great day! :)

YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR PICTURES OF OUR RAFTING. I USED A DISPOSABLE WATER CAMERA, AND I STILL NEED TO GET IT DEVELOPED. I LOVE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!! :)

We returned home that evening so Christopher could attend his last day of school on Monday! :) But wait!! The fun continues...