For Labor Day weekend we went on a camping trip in Vernon.
This is a photo of our camp.
We had a great time with our neighbors who invited us. It has been years since Josh and I have been camping. Minus the sap that continually dripped from these trees and the wind that howled for most of the weekend we really enjoyed our time.
All of the girls were excited to go camping with their friends. The trees allowed for some great imagining. They build a fort in some of the trees that had fallen over. They even tied up some long pieces of grass for a curtain on the fort. It was too bad that the deer loved the grass and ate their curtain at night.
One of the nights the adults were all sitting around the camp fire and the girls were over in their fort. When all of a sudden the girls came running and screaming toward us. They were yelling, "There are glowing eyes out there!" One of the girls dropped a lantern and Aftie yelled, "Just leave it and RUN!" Well the girls all thought that there were bears out there ready to eat them. When it was actually just about half a dozen deer wanting to eat their fort. Oh, I forgot to mention that in all the chaos our Little E and her friend from down the street had been left up in the tree. Stranded without even a flashlight in the darkness with the glowing eyes. Poor little girls were not very happy.
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They did have some very good times as well though. We did plenty of hiking. Hiking through these hills brought back some fond memories of hiking through some of these same hills with my grandfather when we had family reunions out there. Searching for arrow heads and dead cow bones. Fun times.
Our neighbors also had their four wheelers that they brought up and were kind enough to share. Even though we kept breaking them. :)
The kids, and adults had so much fun with these. And yes, Granny, we did have helmets that were worn. These photos were just for posing purposes.
One of the days we even went crawdadding in the reservoir. The kids had a fun time with that as well. Using the nasty chicken liver on a string to lure the crawdads out of the water.
Another one of our hiking trips was to a little mine that they had on the hills right by our camp. The girls were all a little bummed out when they saw that the mine was barred off. I, myself was a little relieved.
So, for the first camping trip as a family, I would say it was a success. We hope to do more.
Only after getting a new tent pole and spraying all the sap off of the tent.
I will leave you all with on more photo from our trip of the monkeys that we encountered in the woods.
