Meet THE Bear!

Nana and Dadaw have told the kids about all of the bears they have seen at Lake Owen, but the kids were really getting frustrated that they never had seen one. We were just discussing this on our way home from church when we came upon the bear! The kids were so excited! We stayed in the car and watched him for a pretty long time. We made a lot of noise and he would look at us and then go back to his stolen garbage. We even saw him go dumpster diving. He went in and then a threw a bag out. We thought it was funny that we wouldn't eat it in the dumpster. He liked to get it out and spread it around first so he could weigh his options. We had a few more sightings of him during our stay. One was a close call when Mike went to take out the trash one evening. He heard a lot of noise coming from the dumpster and called out and no one answered. He then got his first view of our friend the bear. Good thing he didn't get too close!