We went camping! We tried Olivia out on her first two night trip. Since a major part of our last camping trip consisted of us getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, we went with beach camping. It may be colder and wetter, but there's no mosquitoes. We left on Friday, unfortunately a lot later than we were planning, and so as soon as we got to the site it was a scramble to get everything set up before it got dark. Brian, Jess and I started putting up tents, Niki started a fire, and...
Olivia dug a hole.
We did end up cooking in the dark. Our lantern was having some issues so we didn't end up bringing it. Niki played role of overhead lighting.
That only lasted about five minutes before he decided to use some engineering wits and duct taped the flashlight onto a tree.
I made a big pot of some really healthy chili. Niki and Olivia contributed to the meal with some really unhealthy cheese dogs.
Our campsite. We were about a mile from the beach in some really great sand dunes.
On day 2 we made a big batch of rice crispie treats. Excellent camping food.
Olivia playing with some Batman cards.
For dinner on day 2 we went with spaghetti but forgot any kind of strainer so Brian and Jess improvised. This was quite impressive.
Roasting marshmallows.
Right at the edge of our campsite was a little hole and one of the times I was walking by, a vole of some sorts popped out and scared the bejeezus out of me. Let's just say that the scream was probably heard by all in a mile radius.
On the last day Brian, Jess and I packed up the campsite and Olivia and Niki played in the mud. I mean, Niki was teaching Olivia about water flow. I think they were just trying to get out of doing any work.
