So Thursday night led into Friday. We had a nice day of mostly around camp, a lot of lounging, which was great for me. Madison and the other kids kept busy by a lot of nature walks around the camp ground. Finding pine cones, chasing squirrels, spotting chipmunks and any other "wild life". Madison even got so worn out from the fresh mountain air that she took a nap! As of course, Michael did too!
Beth's sister & her boyfriend Mike joined us early Friday afternoon
Tricia & the boys joined us later Friday afternoon. A few hours after that, Tim joined Tricia with his mom & dad.
The kids had a blast roasting hot dogs over the fire & making smores.
Saturday
Saturday we started out the day with a humongous breakfast. Pancakes, potatoes, bacon & smoked sausage, scrambled eggs & mini bagels. We used that to get us ready for our walk to the USDF's Stream Chamber Profile. It was a pretty walk. We took in a lot of trees & foliage, Kanoke Salmon & Crawdads in the stream, along with to our surprise, a bear! We had almost all left the side of the stream and were heading a long the path to the profile chamber when Amy came running up to me. There was a bear back at the stream. So I ran back to get some pictures before it disappeared.
After the stream chamber, we went back to camp for lunch. At that point, some of us left to go on a hike above Emerald Bay while a few of us, Carol, Tricia, Beth, Mary, Jonathan, Mike & I stayed behind. Shhh...don't tell the kids, at this point we went over to the ice cream shop. OMG, their kid's scoop was like a double scoop from Baskin Robbins!
It was while we were sitting out on the grass by the ice cream parlor that I realized my mistake....I forgot to pull that nights dinner (tritip) out of the cooler. I had frozen them from when we went shopping the night before & never thought they'd actually stay frozen. But I had told myself the night before that I needed to pull them out in the morning to defrost...whoops!
So dinner Saturday night ended up being a great camp out feast....at the food court in the Harrah's hotel & casino lol! After dinner, we headed to the arcade with the kids, which was a lot of fun.
Headed back to the campsite around 10 and sat around the fire with the remaining kids & adults playing games. You know, like telephone and I'm going on a trip & in my bag I'm packing a....
Sunday morning came and it was time to pack up. We had breakfast via Beth, who baked up a bunch of breads to sustain us through camp break down time....then it was time to hit the road!
It was a great time, but I can tell you that camping with an 8 1/2 month old definitely has its challenges. I was very grateful to my family(and friends, but you all know you're the same to me) that helped keep Riley entertained & me from pulling my hair out.
Here are pictures to leave you with
And last but not least....pretty camping faces
Lily
Nathan
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