In the past, the boys have "camped" in the tent in our backyard and recently in the popup in our driveway.
But last night we tried taking them to a campground. Granted it was only 10 minutes from our house, but you got to start somewhere, right?
And our first night was quite epic- it down poured rain from 5 p.m. to bedtime!
Good news is that
1. Our popup doesn't leak
2. Our hotdog meal over the campfire could easily transition to boiling hotdogs over the stove inside the camper
3. Our boys are pretty much happy and excited no matter what or where they are. So they had a blast playing "Go Fish" and "Crazy Eights" and just hanging out and listening to the storm.
4. When we woke up this morning, it was a beautiful day so we got to take a hike. We are so fortunate to have this state park right so close to us!
Tonight we are trying a different campground. No rain is expected so hopefully we can do some hiking yet today and then have a campfire tonight.
I'm sure no matter what we end up doing, our boys will find the fun in it! That is one of their life gifts, I think.
Ok, funny story. We ended up not camping our 2nd night. One of our older kids had a broken down car that we had to deal with so we decided to take camping off our docket. With a late start, we were thinking it would too late to set up the camper at the campground. However, we did visit our campsite and have a DQ picnic and campfire.
The boys impressed us by rolling with all our changes to our plans today.
It was a fun adventure even though a bit modified.
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