North Shore Trip

This week we spent two nights at the North Shore of Lake Superior with Brock's brother Brent, his wife Teresa, and their two boys Brandon and Bradford. We piled all seven people along with all of the luggage into the van (something Brock and Brent were very proud of!) Here is the first photo of the trip ... a shot of Brandon & Bradford in the backseat of the van. We stopped at Gooseberry Falls on the way to our campsite. Here are a few Gooseberry shots. Next we went to the trailer home we rented (it's white and you can see it peeking out of the treeline in the middle of the photo to the left of the white "cross on the hill".)

Here are a few photos at the campsite. The next day we went to Temperance River State Park and hiked. [Brock wants to say that...except for the steps leading up through the steepest parts, Braxton walked the WHOLE way...which was about a mile up and back].

After hiking, we drove up to Grand Marais for coffee and donuts and to check out the shops (didn't buy anything but we saw a water airplane land...which was very cool). Then we went back to our campsite to fly kites, throw rocks into the water, and play catch with a football on the beach [the first photo shows the very first time that Braxton has ever flown a kite!]

Braxton loved running and playing on the beach and dealt well with the rocky shoreline. Here is the one video we have from the trip -- a video of Brock playing football on the beach with his nephew Brandon and Braxton.

Here is the last photo from our camera...a shot of Brock relaxing in the trailer with his nephews (and a cool, wet towel on his head after sunburning the top of his head).