Sunday, July 22, 2007

Camping in Suspect Weather

We have been camping for the last few days at Laverne park (Six Readers, this is twenty minutes from my house -- we don't like to travel far from the TiVo). Thank God for the trailer, with its heat, electricity, running water, blah, blah. It was humid/occasionally rainy, and persistently overcast. At least I didn't worry about sunburns, or attempting to clean sandy buns at the swimming hole. I realize I may sound a bit prissy, and perhaps I am. I was not raised with a love of camping; although my grandparents used to take my brother and I to Thousand Trails (camping "resorts" with indoor pools and nightly activities at the lodge -- Kellerman's on wheels) when we were young. Hey, I did allow my children to run wild and bathless for four days. Baby steps. Here is Chase enjoying his first S'more ("choco-late sammitch"):
And here is Hayden inside the pull-out, making faces to his brother outside. It was so funny, I just had to keep taking pictures. Then I remembered the teething/runny nose situation and had to run for the antibacterial Windex. Baby steps, I told you.
A woman camping a few spaces away noted my bravery, "taking those two small boys camping." I remarked that she should have seen us last year when Hayden was a newborn. I think I saw her physically shudder at the image on her way to the river with her school-age kiddos. Mmm... And I didn't even mention Chase's application of the "five-second rule" while dining in the wild. Perhaps I am braver than I thought...

2 comments:

Abigail said...

you ARE brave- very! love those pics through the window- how did chase like the s'more?

Amy G. said...

Brave, yes. Prissy, no. Glad you had a fun trip, even if it wasn't the best weather. Thanks for calling when you got back...I'll try to remember to not have anyone other than Andrew or me answer the phone between now and Aug. 18 ... ;)