"Silent" Lake...

... that is, until we arrived (no worries, we' re sure our neighbours appreciated the 6 am wake-up calls).

So we headed off to the woods surrounding Silent Lake to enjoy Mamuks' and Papuks' undivided attention for a few days - something that seems to be a rare luxury these days. We had LOTS OF FUN, hence there are LOTS OF PICS to share with you. So grab a coffee while we entertain you....

Vecais stocking up on firewood for the days ahead

A reluctant Coppertone girl (granted, it was a bit chilly)

That never-ending source of portable fun, otherwise known as The Hammock

Mudzuks builds a house for the resident chipmunks

One of Mudzuks' famously good photographs

Spaghetti dinner al fresco

(and this is the picture Mudzuks made Mamuks take so that she could explicitly
send it to Oma... ??)

Post dinner fun consisted of collecting pine cones and fir cones and chucking them off the rocks into the lake (it really is a great deal of fun, trust us)

Our campsite as it normally looked


Our campsite after we found the magic mushrooms in the woods

How far do you think Papuks can throw him?

A young buck running through the woods near our campsite


Even far from civilization, oral hygiene remains high on the agenda

Vecais demonstrating a lovely utkatasana (chair pose) on the beach

Cookie break

Mudzuks and Vecais learning the fine art of "dogpile" (apparently its a good skill to have for rainy days and tents in general)

A walk in the woods

Waiting out the rain at the beach

Mmmm... marshmallows (the idea, per usual, was much more exciting than the end product)

Once again, apres dinner sojourn on the rocks with pine cones

Skinny dipping in the evening (or at least one of us was "skinny" - you can take that to mean what you please...)

"Nature" need not be the opposite of " Culture"

Princess Takes a Swim

(with her foot soldier-slash-butler, of course)