This past weekend was spent camping with friends at an Air Force Campground at Canyon Lake. We have been looking forward to this trip for months. It was our first family camping trip. Our friends, Matt and Jana, invited us to join them and their two boys, Ethan and Nathan.
We arrived Friday night around 6 to a gate that was closed and no park ranger to be found. Thankfully we gained access, found our assigned shelters and set up (in the dark:)
Weather: Hmmmm, well it has been 80 degrees or so here for weeks and weeks and the night we decide to go camping, temps dipped WAY down!! No problem b/c our shelter had heat.......or it was supposed to!! NO HEAT! We dressed in layers, made the most of it and went to bed.
We woke up to a most spectacular view of the lake and surrounding woods. The park is impeccably clean and beautiful. Our shelter was 50 yards from the lake so we took the kids to feed the ducks. They loved it (so did the ducks).
Back to the weather: COLD COLD COLD,,,,,OH, AND WINDY!! The kids had a wonderful time; playing with Ethan and Nathan, climbing the equipment at the park playground, playing in the dirt and rocks (see Ainslie's pic), making S'Mores, cooking out, going for walks and seeing deer (or as our kids call them: reindeer). Finn especially loved being outside and just observing.
We had a great time and are looking forward to more camping trips. Just no tent camping: it's pop up's or cabins for us!
Love, Deb