We finally went camping! It has been a really long time since Mike and I have done any camping since we became parents. This past weekend we loaded up our new family sized tent and headed up the mountain with my sister and her family. The campsite we rented ended up being really, really small literally sleeping on a cliff with a roaring river below. Luckily the guy who was managing the campsite let us move to a much bigger spot, yay for that! All the happy campers!
We set up camp and got a fire started and then it began to rain, thunder, lightening. It felt like we were camping in Washington again :) Our nice big new tent fit ALL of the campers and we played games and ate junk food while we waited for the storm to pass. An hour later the storm ended and we resumed playing in the fire Oh, I mean camping. Angie (my sister) made AWESOME tinfoil dinners and we had watermelon and made smores later on in the evening.
Unfortunately, the night didn't go as well as the day. Kaelyn (my niece) was really sick around midnight so Mike and I helped Angie and Wade pack up their camp and sent them to our house for the rest of the night. Luckily our home was only about an hour away. We kept Jacob (my nephew) and all tried to go back to sleep. About an hour later Lilly woke up and started crying and saying she was cold (she was in two sleeping bags) she refused to go back into her sleeping bags and climbed in my mummy sack. She wasn't content laying on me and pushed me to the side and slept next to me in the mummy sack. To say the least, I did not get any sleep that night. But that's ok, I always expect to not sleep while camping, it's just part of the whole experience for me :) This way I run on pure adrenaline :) The morning came and Mike made us (the survivors, Mike, Jacob, Lilly, Bryn and I) A wonderful meal of egg/sausage/cheese bagels. So yummy! We played in the fire some more ate a couple of marshmallows then took down camp. We decided to drive the scenic loop home and I am glad we did, we saw wild turkeys, a deer and stopped at Devils Kitchen. Overall it was a fun, yet too quick, camping trip. Hopefully we will be able to go again in August after summer term ends.