Epic Camping Trip~ day 1

That's right...

We went camping...

in a tent!

And we loved it...

we even have more camping trips planned!

I always said I would never camp,

I am more of a hotel person...

but...

never say never.

Lesson learned!

We are now proud to be part of the 

Camping folks!

And the kids loved it too...

what kid wouldn't love it?!

 

 All spring we slowly collected all the important 

camping things we needed...

a tent,

air mattresses,

cooking stuff,

pink flamingos,

100 glow sticks,

colourful buntings...

as you can tell,

I'm a little more into the 

Glamping style of camping!

~

For our first camping trip we went to 

Sibley State Park...

for a 4 day camping trip with 

my whole family.

We were all SO excited!

 Our camping started off with a bang...

we set up camp,

then headed out to the grocery store.

On our way back to Camp we ran into 

extremely hard downpours...

and when we made it back to camp,

everyone was yelling to us to head into the shower house...

there had been a tornado spotted very close by!

Scary excitement!

{side note: first time campers that we were, we didn't close the

windows to our tent before heading out...

my little sisters noticed and zipped them up...thank goodness!

So no wet bedding at least!}

 Everything was drenched outside! 

Thankfully my parents had their little Vintage Camper...

so we all hung out in there while feeding the 

kids deli cut and chips for dinner!

The guys were outside in the rain putting a 

makeshift canopy up so they could fire up the grill

and make a nice warm dinner!

 And just as quickly as the storm popped up,

it was gone and the sun was shinning again!

We set off to explore Sibley...

 It was a perfect evening...

beautiful weather...

kids were all happy to be exploring a new place...

and the camp ground was nice and quiet...

 So long as there is water around,

the kids are happy!

 Spring and Summer had been so rainy that the

lake was extremely high...

so high that the entire beach was under water...

but the kids didn't mind having to walk through

knee deep water to get on the fishing pier!

 Angelina is not at all afraid of water...she will walk out until she 

is in neck deep water...so she was not happy 

that I didn't let her get in any further than her waist!

 Our first day of Camping created many,

many memories...

the best one that the kids talk about was 

waiting out the storm in the shower house!

~

{stay tuned for day 2 camping}