Camping in Devils lake (by Lake Michagan)

We caught the bus over night from Niagara to Chicago and met a guy called Ross who kept us entertained the whole way. He was so funny and turned out to be a hotdog connoisseur! We'll fill you in on the details when we are back. We've been keeping a diary everyday...with a memory like mine I have to. We arrived in Chicago with no where to stay so after 6 hours of walking around the city with our back packs we ended up renting a car and staying in a hotel (the radisson!!!) on the outskirts. lastminute.com was our saviour for cheap deals. We then took the car north to a place to Devils Lake and that's where the pictures begin...

Camping in Lake Michigan with our $19 tent from a supermarket! Our home for 3 nights! The mosquitos were mad hence the striking outfit!

Chef Le Feuvre making dinner of flame grilled sausages!

Dinner time! Russ was very proud of himself as you can tell by the look on his face here!

I was debating whether or not to even put this picture up but here you go. Swollen eye lids from no sleep! Tenting on the hard floor with no roll mats for protection is a no no!

Cereal for Breakfast in the woods...how organised are we!

Lunch down by the Devils Lake

Russ taking a dip in the lake...on his own! It was too cold for me. Notice the lack of swim wear!

On our hike that took us up way above the lake...oh they're Russ's Boxes drying out by the way!

What a view! Loved it!

Further along the path...stunning! It was so quiet up there, good spot to catch our breath.

Part of the walk we did around the lake was like this all the way to the highest point above the lake (loads of big rocks formed stairway to the top) POOPED!!

A stone formation called 'Devils Gate'.

View over the forest below

 

Chilling out enjoying the view...so much more relaxing then marking books and screaming teenagers period 5 on a friday!

Dinner time number three! There aren't any photos of dinner time number two as we couldn't managed to light a fire...we had to have jam sandwiches in the dark!

Proud Man! Chicken burgers and roast potatoes on the fire...that he made! Chuffed? Just a bit!

Roast/charcoal Potatoes...at least he liked them!!