Camping

We decided to take our brand new-old camper out the long weekend. This was going to be our first camping trip as a family with little miss Alaina. We booked our site last minute (4 days before lol) at Orchard View Campground on the lake by Forest. We left Friday at 1pm and arrived around 2. We got all set up and took a bike ride and a walk around the campground. Went down to the beach which was a workout! Especially for B pushing the stroller, it was soo steep, we needed a break on the way back up! You couldn't swim in this lake due to all the rocks, the water was warm too, so that was a bummer. Then we bought our fire wood and started preparing for dinner. Well 2 hours later we were eating! The wood was soo damp, it wouldn't stay lit and of course we forgot an axe, paper and kindling. So needless to say we scrambled looking for twigs around the campground and any paper product we found in our stuff. It was a chore! Good thing I packed non-cooking junk food to eat in the meantime :)

Our camp site was part of the playground so we were entertained/kept up by the kids until 11pm. Good thing Alaina was so exhausted from only having a short nap that she zonked out with no problems! Now Sat was another story! We had a family nap in the afternoon for about 2 hours after our drive to Forest for lunch and around. That night the kids kept Alaina up for about 45 mins. I heard a noise and wasn't sure if it was coming from inside the camper or around the corner. I went to walk behind and check and there was little Alaina, peaking out the window smiling! She had pulled the curtains right down!! It was soo cute and funny, I wish I had my camera on me, it probably was too dark to really see anyway though. She did that twice before finally settling down for the night. Once again it took us over 2 hours to get our fire started and to stay going with our damp wood! I ended up asking a seasonal person if we could get a couple pieces of dry wood off them. What a difference that made! We got up Sunday morning, ate breakfast and packed up to head home. We were home by lunch time and discovered our 4 Wheeler had been stolen out of our locked shed while we were

gone :( Brandon was soo upset, but we were smart enough to have insurance on it. So we unpacked the trailer while we waited for the police to come. Then we had another family nap :) Monday we went for dinner at Grandma and Papa Coles and visited with the Bustin Family who joined us. Now time for some Pictures! I didn't get many, our batteries died and I forgot to pack spares :(

Our home away from home :)

Saturday morning we woke up to tons of people in the park setting up a games day, activities were everywhere! Alaina was playing with the balloons

One way to keep her occupied was letting her push her stroller all around :P