No promises!: That was great fun!!

Monday, July 03, 2006

That was great fun!!

We had an awesome time out in the woods this weekend! We got out Thursday a lot later than I'd originally planned, but I was able to tie up both mine and Cam's hammocks by myself, thank you very much. He promptly fell asleep and missed dinner. Go figure. The next day Kas and I were up at the butt crack of dawn, as is usual for both of us on the first whole day camping. We had nearly 4 hours of shade on our beach, and a nice breeze as we had breakfast. Here's a view of our beach from the campsite:

Dawn and the boys arrived sometime between breakfast and lunch (time is weird in the woods and not easy to pin down) and the boys proceeded to play a game about "meat-eating beavers" that left us adults in stitches the entire weekend. "What was that sound? Ah, must have been the meat-eating beavers." Ahh...simple things for simple minds.

Here's a shot of my hippy kid in the river:

Dawn and Kenny arrived that afternoon and the child head count grew to 5. The noise? It grew exponentially. :) But that's ok-they all had a blast. Dawn and Dawn set up on one side of the river, while Kas and I were on the other side...so quite literally there was a Dawn camp and a Jen camp. We laughed to think where Cassi would have camped, had she been able to attend. She's an honorary Jen AND and honorary Dawn, so that would put her in the river somewhere. Hee!

Jenz, John and the girls came out for the day Saturday, and then Splash and her crew rolled up....we had quite a group out there in the boonies. At the busiest time, there were at least 9 or 10 kids in the river, and probably 15 adults. Don't quote me on that, though. It was hot and nobody stayed in one place for long.

Dawn and I were worried about it being too hot...it turns out that yes, it did get friggin HOT out there, but when you're sitting IN the river in the shade? Turns out it doesn't matter! The nights were very comfortable, and the only thing we missed out on was a fire. I'd rather not have a fire than get a big, expensive ticket and/or burn down the woods, though, so I'm ok with that. Here's a shot of the kids from Saturday night...just before Brigit fell asleep, and Seth, Jared, and Mikey started asking to go back to their tents to go to bed. LOL!

All in all, a very good time was had by all. I'm sore as all get out, and am willing to bet neither of the Dawns are up for another camping trip any time soon. :) But that's ok-we had a blast. Meat-eating beavers, fireless evenings, boiled hot dogs, and all.

posted by Jen @ 9:23 PM

2 Comments:

At 11:32 PM, Anonymous said…

shhhhhhhhh...the meat eating beavers will hear us...

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At 7:20 AM, Anonymous said…

Meat eating beavers............MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! LOVE that. Ironically enough, there was a joke running around here about "wet beavers", as a result of a minor league baseball teams mascot (they were here playing out Sky Sox). It was SO bad.....LOL.

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