Spring Break 2015 - When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade!

So the kids were out of school for two weeks for Spring Break.  I asked them to give me their top 5 activities they wanted to do over break, then we would vote for what to do first.

The list came in and the first activity came in at a unanimous vote for fishing at Rose Canyon Lake on Mt. Lemmon.  Great!  We packed the car with snacks, fishing poles, bait, firewood for roasting marshmallows at sunset, we were set.  We drove up in the morning to find Rose Canyon Lake was closed!!! What, how could the lake be closed, the kids were super disappointed, however,  I wanted to make the most of it, so we drove further up the mountain to find a camp ground so we could at least roast some chicken and marshmallows.  All the campgrounds were closed too!!!   Uuuggghhh!!!!  We drove nearly to the top and found one picnic area with only a picnic table, so, we got out and this is what we did.

First the boys had a race to find the

tallest and fattest pinecone within 5 minutes.

Jamil lined up all the pinecones to find the biggest one.

 

Idris won, he found "Andre the Giant!"

(We watched, "The Princess Bride," the day before)

 

Then they played pinecone golf and pinecone baseball

 until all the pincones were gone.

 

 

 

After all the pinecones were gone we played

Picnic Table Bowling

 

 

 

We were on a pretty steep hill so if we weren't careful

the ball would roll all the way down the hill.

Here is Idris running to catch the ball down the hill.

 

 After a few hours on Mt. Lemmon we packed up and headed back to Tucson to do some urban fishing at Lakeside.  Jamil passed off all the requirements to get his fishing belt loop for cub scouts.

 Let's go Fishing!

Jamil writing the fishing rules on his scout worksheet.

 

I was watching Leila play on the slide at the top of the hill when Jamil came running to tell me Oliver caught a huge fish.  We had only been there for about 10 minutes at the most.  So I grabbed Leila and we headed toward the lake.  Idris was trying to help Oliver bring in the fish, when it wriggled loose and swam off.  They all swear it was at least 12 inches long. 

 

Jamil and Oliver waiting for the big one, again!

Leila thinks that anytime she sits

down she needs to take off her shoes.

Idris had multiple poles set up

Oliver with his pole

Jamil with his pole

Idris with his pole

Leila hanging out eating snacks.

 

This tree was at the top of the hill above the lake,

it was just perfect.

 

Although the day did  not go as planned, it was still fun and we learned

 how to make the best out of a disappointing situation.