Daddy has been in a fishing mood. He ordered a new pole, since he thoughtfully left all his gear with his in-laws at their Indiana lake, and that obviously doesn't help him here in California! And while he was thinking about it, decided that it was time for the toddlers to learn to fish too! I was a little weary, it's been a horrible week of both in LOTS of time outs for being Captain Hook and hurting each other, and there is so much damage they could do to each other with real hooks, poles, water, rocks, sand etc. But dad convinced us it was worth a try so we loaded up yesterday morning and headed to Jenkinson Lake in South El Dorado, it was a succes! We never caught anything or even had any nibbles, but that was due more to location than trying. There were very few people at the day use side of the campground in the morning, though it was getting busy as we were leaving around 1ish, so we timed our visit perfectly. Ian got bored first, but then we taught him to "skip" rocks and the idea and splash kept him busy trying for another hour. By the time Lauren got bored, we brought out the bubbles and mommy kept them occupied catching and popping bubbles up and down the beach while Daddy tried to catch a fish. The hard one was Gavin who just wanted to crawl and as the beach was all pebbles and rocks it was not conducive to that even with our heavy blanket. Next time I'll have to do a better job with entertaining him! We had so much fun and it was so beautiful we plan to go back next weekend with floats and swimsuits and do fishing in the morning and once bored head out for some in the lake time!
Someday we'll have to try camping there too.
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