Annual Trip to Chimney Rock

During another fun day of this:


...Eli went over the waterfall, fell backwards off his inner tube, hit his head, and all tubing was pretty much spoiled the rest of the day. Of course, if I would have had to predict which one of my kids was going to have some sort of tubing accident, it would have been Eli. (here, here, and here)

We still enjoyed being lazy in the river, ...


...climbing on the rocks,...


...and enjoying nature.



We went on a fantastic boat tour of Lake Lure that included several very important landmarks (where Dirty Dancing was filmed) and ended with rain.



We ended the trip with our annual meal at that Mexican restaurant in Chimney Rock.



Unfortunately, Michael had to point out the phallicism of Chimney Rock, and since we will now never be able to get that image out of our heads, we may be moving our annual camping trip to a new location next summer.