Camping

We spent the past two nights camping in the mountains. We had a great time! We met up with some friends of ours on Sunday night. The kids threw rocks in the river and waded in the rapidly moving water. We took our kids for a hike. In the evening David played the guitar while we sang praise songs, and after dinner we ate s'mores by the fire.

We took Rosemary along on our camping trip, and she was very good (and got totally filthy, dirty!). The only problem is that I am a very light sleeper and Rosie loves me and really liked the idea of sleeping right next to me in our 5 person tent (which was holding 6 people and a dog), so I got VERY LITTLE sleep the first night. I was dragging a bit on Monday.

We hung out in the water some more on Monday. David took the kids for a hike and the bottom of his boots disintegrated (I guess that he needs new ones!). Our friends left for home, but within a couple of hours we had some new camping neighbors who had a 9 year old girl. The kids had a lot of fun with Virginia. They played tag and this morning they painted t-shirts, which Virginia's grandma had along because Virginia's cousins were supposed to join them, but had a family emergency.

Monday night we all slept great. We had to put Rosemary in her crate, which worked fine, but just imagine 6 people and a dog crate in a 5 person tent and you've got one very cozy situation! Good thing we all like each other!

We really had a fun time. We're looking forward to camping with Grace when she is here with us. I guess, though, that we had better get a new tent!