Monday, March 9, 2009

First Family Camping Trip

This past weekend we went to Cleburn State Park for our first camping trip with all three of us. It was perfect weather for camping in a tent... no rain (always a plus when in a tent), temps in the high 70's to low 80's with lows in the 60's... perfect low since we could not have a fire due to the burn ban. Although it made cooking a bit more of a challenge but thankfully we had electricity at the site. We brought Caroline's bike, which she loved riding around our little circle at the campground as well as riding it to the park. When we first go there it was getting dark so we just had a few minutes to go "exploring" as Caroline calls it... I say hiking. Caroline got to be the "leader" so we were never sure where we would go next. It was a lot of fun, but we had to save the rest of the exploring until the next day.

It was not quite as dark as it looks in the picture because we could still see where we were going. This log was on the way to part of the lake and also a little amphitheater. We each took turns standing on the stage "performing". Sorry no pics or video of that:)

The next morning... after only Caroline got some sleep... those of you who don't know Caroline very well she loves to match her mommy and daddy... so courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa we all have on our matching t-shirts... Caroline was all smiles that we could all match (plus mommy and Caroline have matching hats)!!

When I first asked Caroline what her favorite thing about the camping trip was she said "the playground"... typical Caroline. I said what about sleeping in the tent "yeah", what about exploring "yeah", what about riding your bike "yeah'... so now she answers "everything". However if you ask her what her least favorite thing is she will say "the boys"... There was one little boy when she was riding her bike that ran after her with an empty water gun pretending to shoot her... she did not like that... also at the park three little boys came to play and they would ride in the cars and she did not like having to share her cars... one of the cars is the last picture. Over all we had a great time and plan to do more camping as it gets nicer outside.



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