Our Backyard Adventure
At Target this summer they had several camping items on sale, so we picked up a tent and stove. We had not used it and decided we should try a test run in our backyard. Mark arrived home a little after 6pm. He began to set up the tent and built a fire (we have a firepit in our backyard). I purchased a mesquito lantern and sprayed the family down with bug spray. By 7:30 we were grilling our hotdogs. Camden thought he would investigate the mesquito lantern and burned his fingers. We rushed inside to put them under cool water. He was fine so we headed back out. We ate our dinner and then made s’mores. Camden liked the chocolate the best. By 9:00 pm we were all in bed and asleep a few moments later.
It was a lot of fun and we are glad we practiced in our yard before venturing out to the wilderness. When we woke up this morning to a neighbor talking on the phone, Mark and I agreed to a few more backyard trials before doing the real thing!
Here are a few pictures:
Dad said,
September 16, 2006 @ 8:05 am
Pretty cool. So you actually slept in the tent when your bed was a few yards away? I’m impressed.
Heather said,
September 16, 2006 @ 11:00 am
yup!
Gramma Tucson & Papa Ken said,
September 16, 2006 @ 8:42 pm
Love the backyard campout — those special times will create wonderful memories (at least for Mom and Dad). Miss you and love you
Gma L. said,
September 17, 2006 @ 10:19 am
We all remember those family campouts. Don’t ever stop having them, evin if it is just in the back yard. I know that your dad, and the rest of the family remember him saying “I just heard a moose moo”, which turned out to be a bugling elk, and waking up to snow in Yellowstone, when we had no toilet in the trailer. Br-r-r. There are so many memories, mostly all good. The bad events have a way of being deleted from out minds.
Aunt Donna said,
September 18, 2006 @ 10:13 pm
Oh, how fun that sounds! What a great idea.