Exploring the Local State Park

We recently took a trip to the local state park which is about 15 minutes from our house.  It was a beautiful warm spring day...we packed a picnic lunch and our fishing poles and went out for an afternoon adventure.

Michael was all excited to once again get the opportunity to fish.

This was the fishing pier on the lake in the state park

Here are the boys bringing the fishing gear to the pier

Michael enjoying his fishing experience.  Unfortunately, we caught no fish.

We continued on to explore the park, and found a beach area along the lake. 

We found a massive rock along the lake to jump from and take and mom and son photo.

And then we found the beach, the sand, the mud and the water.....

It was so warm and cozy on this beach with the warm sunshine and no wind that I just took Michael's shoes, socks and pants off so he could wade in the water and play in the sand.  He loved it!