So here's the pictures from camping...

Here's me awake before everyone else. Our campsites.

Jen's civic, Dusty's Dad's Truck and my accord

Here's the pavillion that was down by the lake. Nice for playing scrabble and cards and etc.

So this area is a beach...when the water isn't so low...so you have the
safety area out there so that people don't get hurt...

You also have the changing areas that are...well...flooded...which is kinda
gross cause there are bathrooms there and people were swimming
near it.

so the road ends in water...but the sign doesn't face the road...so nobody
can tell...I kept waiting for someone to drive into the lake...but
it didn't happen.

The most advanced of facilities was availble to us...of course there is
a full modern bathroom up the campground a bit.

Here's more signs that had lost there place because of the high water.

Obviously the out doors are not the cleanest place

So there's dusty to greet the day of the birth of our nation.

Jen joins us (she had been up earlier).

Jen and Renee work on putting braids into Dustys hair...

Dusty makes sure it looks good.

And the tossing of the little blue footbal begins

Celebrating our nation by taking it easy.

I thought these clouds looked very cool...although I don't think the picture
did them justice.

So on monday morning I went out to take a picture of this farmsted near
the entrace to the campground.

I just thought it looked cool...life growing out of the decaying leftovers
of our past.

Iowa corn behind the weeds.

The road is closed because...well...it ends in water...

So here's where the spillway for the dam is. Apprently in the floods of
1993 a lot of fossils were uncovered by all the water pouring over
it...The site said that there was a lot of water (it had a number,
I just can't remember) that passed over the spillway.