Picture tour of some of Zion's Camp

Here is a picture of one of our cabins. As you can tell they are not fancy but the serve the purpose of camping. There are fire pits outside each cabin. Because of the rain the fire pits are covered. Some of the cabins have covered picnic tables somewhere by the cabin.
This is a picture of an amphitheater that the young women's camps use for their group meetings. I love this area because you can look right down on the lake. It is so beautiful
This is the inside of the cabins. Nothing to shout about. There are 8 sets of world war 2 bunkbeds. I don't think they are that old but the were probably army issue bundbeds. They are not to uncomfortable. There is a 4 inch cotton mattress that is covered with plastic garbage bags to keep them clean. As you can tell each cabin has a wood burning stove. We actually have a homeless family that is looking for housing and they are living in a cabin like this. They have been here for about 8 weeks. We're not sure how hard they are looking. They pay us $30 a night to stay here. I think I could get a wonderful apartment for that kind of money.
This is what the bathroom that some of the campers use. It has hot showers, flush toilets and four sinks. That's not the girl's camp that I remember. I think Washington Young Women are spoiled when they go to girl's camp. Both Camp Lehi and Camp Sariah uses this bathroom during girls camp. We turn the boy's bathroom into a girl's bathroom and any male priesthood that is with the camp use the priesthood bathroom that is just for them.
This is a picture of our monster garden. Things went out of control in this garden. HUGE plants. Some of our tomatoes were 6 feet tall. No tomatoes until about 3 weeks ago. The squash plants were equally as big. We had wonderful cauliflower. We enjoyed every head. Surprising there were very few bugs. We had 6 large cabbage that were so sweet. The building you see in the back is the chicken coop. We have 7 hens and one noisy rooster. The corn patch grew inches everyday and we enjoyed lots of tiny ears of corn.
We have one cabin that is called the family cabin. It has 5 bunkbeds,
a queen size bed and
a small kitchen that has a microwave, two hot plates, fridge,dishes and pans to cook with. There is also a bathroom with a shower all in the cabin. It rents for $45 a night. It's kind of like a motel 6 for less money.

Here are Elder and Sister Larsen standing beside the entrance to Zion's Camp. Notice how thick the trees are. It really is that beautiful on the property.
This is our son in law Doug Tailleur, Shellie's husband. He and his brother came to camp for the father and son's campout. Logan is in the boat with his dad and a friend. Doug's brother is in the canoe. We have a beautiful little underground springfed lake.
This is the building that houses two missionary couples and the camp office. You can see our missionary fifth wheel in the background. We often eat our evening meals under the covered awning. If you look closely at the lawn you can see little brown mounds. These are complements of our resident moles. There are new mounds to discover everyday. They show up everywhere. We'd like to get rid of them but no one has found a solution. Until we do we'll have a poka dot lawn.
This is a picture of our gigantic cauliflower. Notice the size of the leaves. They stood about 4 feet tall. The cauliflower was about eight inches across.

Well that's the end of this week's blog photo picture journey. I will do more next week. Now that the busy season has ended and I have a little more time, I plan on writing more often.

Today was fall cleanup. We had about 250 people from 7 stakes here to do all kinds of fall maintenance. We fed a lot of people lunch. It was wonderful to see how the stakes rallied around to support our camp.

Elder Larsen is busy working everyday on his winter projects. The elders have been cutting down trees. OOPS! That's a Picture story for another day.

We miss Utah weather and hope that you are enjoying it enough for us. The rainy season has definitly begun.

Love you all!