Here's a picture of our camping spot with Kathryn in the middle. Mike and Chris put up our humongous tarp to make a covered area for cooking/eating in preparation for the rain. You can see the ridiculously large tent that I decided to buy in the background.
See below for a close-up picture of our awesome new tent which I've named the 'Orange Monster'. I've always camped with small backpacking tents, and made fun of those people that put up tents bigger than my own living room. I boasted simplicity and not needing a lot of gadgets while camping. Well... I've become one of those living room tent owning people! And guess what, I totally love it! I pictured being able to have the pack n play with us so Vince could sleep safely, so I needed to get a tent big enough. I found it at Target, it's a Coleman Brand, and I tell you it kept us warm and dry during the craziest/thunderous torrential downpour I think I have ever experienced while camping! I swear there was a river out front of our tent on Friday night, at about 3am our tarp cover over the picnic table collapsed from the weight of the water (even though engineers put it up!), and we even felt pools of water underneath certain parts of the tent, it was like a water bed!! It kept us dry however, with only a few drops that came through the rain fly. I didn't even have time to seem seal the rain fly.
Featuring the Orange Monster
It stopped raining before sunrise, and the rest of Saturday was steamy humid with sun. I caught my two men napping for a while after a big breakfast of sweet potato pancakes and veggie sausages. This is the cutest picture!
Fun with pots and pans: Adam and Vince keeping busy so they don't think of crawling into the camp fire... or over to the plant that looked like poison ivy...or over to pull the tent down... etc. (it was exhausting but fun to have babies to camp with)
That trash bag over at the far end hanging on the tree in the picture below was accosted by a raccoon as we sat watching while congregated around the campfire during the night. After that we made sure to take all the trash and food into the car for the night so the raccoon wouldn't get into it. But that raccoon was smart!! On Saturday night that coon (with those opposable thumbs) opened up our cooler and got into the food in there! I knew I kept hearing something in the middle of the night... half asleep, the noise of rustling bags and what not. I tried to make Mike go out there to do something.. yea right. His rationale: I'm safe in the tent, there's a big raccoon out there that wants food.... let him have it! Luckily he left the eggs untouched so we had breakfast.
Coming back from our hiking outing: Chris found some good firewood
Adam brought his favorite walker toy and the two boys had so much fun taking turns walking around with it. Here's Vince using it to transport water to and fro.
Adam and Vince had a good time hauling each other around in the walker as well, they'd take turns when one was tired. Here they each are getting to work! mush, little ones!
Looking back on the camping weekend, it was definitely not relaxing having little ones, but it was worth it. I do wish I had some sort of giant play yard we could have put them in while outside in the camp site. It was hard to do anything because the minute we put them down they were off, with no boundaries to keep them from going too far. On top of that, I just pulled a tick off Mike this morning! yuk! If anyone knows New England, then you'll know we are sitting in Lyme Disease mecca over here.... once again something on my list I never had to deal with in California/Colorado (ok, maybe there is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever but that's super rare)! I'm mildly freaking out now that our clothes/equipment has ticks on it that we brought into the house. I'll be checking Vince several times a day for the next couple weeks that's for sure.
1 comment:
Wow. very high dexterity modifier on that kid.
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