Our First Successful Camping Trip

Last night marked a first in our family, our first successful camping trip. We have tried in the past and have never made it through the night. We went up to the Oliver Lee camping grounds and set up our tents, you would think we were going for weeks and not a night for what we packed. Anyway we had the dogs and we were all just messing around but it was extremely hot, I decided to take the dogs back home, the girls wanted to come with me to sit in the air conditioned car. It really was hot. So we were back within the hour and the sun was still going strong, the girls attacked the ice box and tried to cool down. It wasn't long before the sun started going down and it felt so nice, we all relaxed and really enjoyed just being together. I will say though I have never realized how much Masie spoke, OMG she was talking the whole entire time, we had to shush her a few times just to here the nature. They were all having a good time. After our dinner of burgers, hot dogs, beans and fruit we decided to go for a little hike. To our surprise the other trail was open that was destroyed a few years ago and has finally been fixed. We were so excited and headed down there, it quickly became dark so we didn't stay long especially because we freaked ourselves out and thought we were going to be eaten by coyote's,lol.

My New Favourite Photo

When we got back we started the camp fire and got to working on making our Smores the right way. I will admit I was a tad nervous with the girls so close to the fire but they stayed safe and had a great time. We watched the sunset together, it was beautiful. Masie told some stories with the flashlight on her face.

We saw some really cool bugs out there, these are just a fraction of what we saw, I couldn't believe that there was so many cool bugs that I have never seen before. After kids went to bed Chris and I had the best time, we laughed the whole night. I'm sure the neighbours thought we were drunk, we did try and keep it down but we were having so much fun and couldn't control the giggles. The stick insect caused some great laughs after it joined us around the fire, we put the flash lights on it to see it better and it pissed it off, luckily he was only mad at Chris. It went on its back legs and started hitting Chris's foot with his front ones, it was so funny watching Chris freak out with this stick insect attached to his toe.

This morning we went back down to the trail and it was nice to get away from the heat as it was covered in tree's. We played with the water and had a blast climbing over the rocks and jumping over little puddles. We were just about to leave when Taylor grabbed a Cactus fruit and was fascinated by it, little did she know that it was covered in little thistles she was in pain but was so brave.

Here is Chris putting out the fire in his humorous way.