Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Camping in September

So I'm finally getting around to posting about our camping trip in September. It was a lot of fun, but on our first night, a really big thunderstorm rolled in! There was lightning strikes very very close to us. I was pretty afraid that we would get shocked, but we didn't! Emmie, Brie, Grace, and I were sleeping in a tent outside while the boys slept in hammocks inside the pavilion. The roof leaked on the boys, but our tent only leaked a little which was really amazing because it rained really really hard and we were basically laying on a river/pool of water. :)
The weather was greatly improved the following night. :)

For supper we had, fried hot dogs

Beans

And Bannock (it is sitting behind Grace under the plate. :)

Sam

Emmie

Brie and I

The pavilion
Almost every year we go camping, we take over the pavilion. :)

The park lights make everything turn green. 

Each night we walked out to the road and looked at the stars or clouds

Sam and Brie having fun

Lightning... we should have known better.

Grace and I
It was cold, wet, noisy, and early in the morning (the storm started around midnight and ended around three).

A shot from the bathrooms (Grace and I decided we needed to brave the elements, for comfort's sake)
This picture does not do justice to what it really was like! In front of the pavilion there was a river of water which Grace and I stepped RIGHT into. You can see our tent on the right and the pavilion on the left. Even though they were not very far away from us we couldn't make out what they were yelling! In the tent you could hardly hear each other talk. The boys said it was the same in the pavilion (the roof is steel).

Hot chocolate and coffee are a must after a night like that!

Thankfully it wasn't too chilly outside.

Poor Emmie looks sleepy

Wraps for lunch!

We spent a lot of time playing foursquare. It was fun!



The ball kept rolling into a puddle of water inside the pavilion then rolling around in the dust. Yuck!

Grace and I swung Brie and Sam around in the hammocks. They were laughing so hard!

Getting hot chocolate

The poor fire didn't want to stay lit. :( It was very smokey!


Sam in his 'hammock'

Brie trying out the hammock

KK in his hammock. It made your body look like a waffle :P

Brie trying out Ben's hammock

I'm already looking forward to next year! :)

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