Bog Walk

     We went camping last weekend, our first time this year. I enjoy camping less each year. It is a pain in the butt packing, everyone complains, it is harder to make meals, and when you get home you have to spend a full day unpacking and catching up on laundry. 
     I do it anyway because it can be a little fun, and Corey and the kids love it. 
     This trip we went to Lake Bemidji State Park. 

     Corey had camped there when he was a kid, but it was my first time. We borrowed Corey's parents fish house for Nora and Corey and I to sleep in, and the older girls set up a tent. We brought the kayaks and Corey and Lauren went for a paddle. 

     While they were kayaking Peyton caught about a hundred tiny frogs and toads.

     Nora stayed busy going down the slide at the park. Once I watched her do it and knew she could manage by herself I sat back and watched. No helicopter parenting here you know. I stopped counting the 18th time she went down it. 

      We kept seeing signs for a "Bog Walk" so decided to check it out. There were signs marking different plants, and there were quite a few I didn't know we had in Minnesota. 

    I had no clue we had native insect eating plants here. Lauren knew that of course. 

     These are pitcher plants. The tube with liquid in it actually had a tiny bug in it. 

     Pey spotted some ripe blueberries. 

 
      It was actually kind of neat. Lauren is not in any of these pictures because they had a page of "The legend of the Ladyslipper" posted about every 15 feet along the board walk and she had to stop and read them all. 
     Saturday we went to town to take in the Art In The Park festival. 

    Nora really loved it.