After church yesterday, we loaded up our camping stuff and headed to the outdoors. The weather was going to be cooler so it seemed like we had the entire supply of blankets and sleeping bags packed up.
We even had my lap top for some evening entertainment. Ok, so from the pictures you can clearly tell that we only camped in the back yard. It was a trial run for our real trips coming up in a few weeks. We'll be heading to Holland to go here. You actually camp at the amusement park. The North Sea is just a short walk from the site. We'll spend a few days at the park then do some of the fun sites in Holland. THEN, we'll head here for another camping trip to Garmisch Germany. It's about 60 miles away from Munich. We'll base out of there to see the beautiful bavarian country side.
The tent we have hasn't been used in probably 7 years. My sister gave it to us years ago, and we haven't taken it out of it's bag. I'm glad we did because it had some seams that were rotten, a disaster when camping in the rainy German mountains. SO, we just HAD to order this beauty, we hope to get many wonderful camping trips out of it.
I say that a bit sarcasticly because after last nights adventure, I'm not sure what we've gotten ourselves into.
Mike didn't join us as he had to get up at 5 to be into work early. He needed sleep for an important day at work.
So, we headed out around 9:30 and turned the movie Spiderwick on. We were all freezing, I was huddled inside the bag with a thick blanket on me with it covering my head. More than 3/4 through the movie, I asked if we could just turn it off and go to sleep. I made sure everyone was bundled up and I put my ear plugs in. (smart mom right?) The garbage trucks start arriving around 6:30, the roosters behind us start crowing much sooner than that, I wanted some sleep!
At 2:55 Dallin woke me up crying at my face. He was stuffed up and the girls said he'd been crying for a bit. (so my ear plugs worked quite well)
He didn't know why he was crying besides that his nose had gotten plugged from the cold. I loaded our pillows and their bed blankets up and we headed back into our warm beds. The girls didn't wake up until 10am!
I'm hoping our adventures in the wild won't be this short lived. We had good intentions though.
9 comments:
Please don't tell my kids about this. They'll expect me to do it too. I am so not a camper. I have to admit, it does look like a lot of fun though. Your kids have a FUN Mom!!!
Good luck with camping. I am sure that you will have a blast. Ear plugs are a brilliant idea, I would have never thought of that. I can't wait to hear about your adventures. Have Fun!!!
You are a dork! Wish I was there to scare you, that would've been great!
Hahahaha! I'm telling big Derek that you stole that tent from me!! :-) I thought it looked familiar. Thats funny! Camping in your own backyard didnt work and you're going to spend like 7 days in a tent....whew, good luck! To bad someone around there doesnt have a Michael Myers mask to look through the windows in the middle of the night. Now THAT would be FUN!! Love you guys!!
fun, fun, fun.
Looks like a great time! Better than real camping because you have electricity...and I can't help but notice you are using it!
Oh boy do I wish I were going with you. What a great, interesting experience you will have. I just hope that the new tent does a great job for you. Make sure to take bug spray!!
What a fun mom you are! Looked like fun...but I'll be honest, going back to the warm bed part sounded best to me!
What a fun camping trip! I like the idea of camping in the backyard. Reminds me of sleeping on the trampoline as a kid. We'd always be awakened either the sprinklers or the ducks (my parents' house is on a lake). Good times. I can't wait to read about the real trip... hope it turned out a little better.
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