I daresay, what can be better than a weekend away spending time with friends and family camping?
Most people know this about us, but we LOVE to go camping as a family all summer long! Yep, ol' fashioned tent camping, cooking over a fire, catching what we eat...WELL that's maybe taking it a little too far! We're rustic if you don't include the ceiling fan we bought for our tent, gigantic gas cook stove, and large coolers full of food! However, on this trip, we did catch and eat something!
This year we invited some of our great friends, The Wilson's, to come along! It was an awesome trip to the Haigler Creek Campground. It was going to be Yan's first trip so we decided on something a little less 'wilderness' with the luxuries of a one stall toilet on the grounds! Usually, the standard bathroom routine on our camping trips includes a shovel to dig a hole and some toilet paper! We thought it would be best to break Yan in SLOWLY! :)
It was a great trip with great company despite a few hiccups in our journey! Our days filled up for the boys down by the Creek fishing but catching mostly just crayfish on their lines. The trout just weren't biting! Cooper and Ethan were best buddies all weekend, eating meals together, playing chase, and up to their knees in the creek.
Yan and I even had GIRL time to chat and go off looking for some fire wood. As for our nights, they were filled with hearty dinners around the campfire, smores, and great conversation. We even did a crayfish boil and ate a little of what the boys caught! Amazingly, these little crayfish were good eatin'!
However, at night, we were deprived of some sleep. Not scared of animals as much as we were of our WILD neighbors. As it so happened, a group of guys at the campsite next to ours came up for a bachelor party and were having a bit too much fun getting plastered, naked, and taking pictures of themselves posed with a passed out party goer...Hopefully not the GROOM as I'm sure those would be some pretty horrible blackmail pictures for his blushing BRIDE! Saturday night was filled with yells of 'Shotgun time', 'beer bong!, 'tomahawk', laughter and the camera flash until 3 AM. UGH.... I remember my 'first' beer....SO LONG AGO!
Next month...it's back to the WILDERNESS for us! Bear Canyon Lake, HERE WE COME!
okay, absolutely LOVE every single pic and word on your blog entry ... ethan keeps saying he wants to see the crawfish when i was scrolling to read. We had the best time with you guys!
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