We’re back from our camping trip, and once again so happy to have such wonderful friends to do this with every year.
Here’s a few lessons learned this go-round…
- If you precook your potatoes before camping, you can slice them and layer them with goodies in foil pouches and they’ll be perfectly cooked, tender and divine.
- A handful of popcorn kernels in a hand-held campfire popcorn popper will make approximately 85 cups of popcorn.
- There is no such thing as an air mattress that stays inflated overnight.
- Bring extra socks.
- Bring extra shoes.
- You can’t rush a small boy while hiking in the woods.
- Good friends are worth long drives.
- Never trust women who leave the dads in charge and pop into town “for just a few minutes” to get supplies.
- Camp stoves are for sissies. 😉
- Roasted watermelon is really, really not a good thing. Like so much else in life, kids won’t believe you and it’s another one of those lessons they just have to find out for themselves, though.
- Really.
We had such a fun time we extended the fun and one of the friends came back to our house for a sleepover the next night. We ate junk food (how ironic that we ate fancy meals cooked over the campfire in the wilderness, and then pizza and chips at home!), watched a video and put the sleeping bags back to good use on the living room floor.
It was a wonderful time, as always. It didn’t even pour down rain!
But I love my bed. 🙂
As soon as I read the part about “at least it didn’t pour down rain” I was sooo jealous 🙂
Ewww, roasted watermelon! 🙂
Sounds like a great time!!
Cheers for your end of the summer camping adventure! ROASTED watermelon— OH MY— I can’t stand ice cold watermelon… so the thought of hot makes me get goose bumps. BUT the JUNK food treat sounds marvelous— what a treat! WE ate tons of junk food on our camping trip too… yummmmm…. ARe you ready for the magic and wonder of FALL!? xoxoxoxoxo!!!!!!!!
I wondered that about air mattresses. Ours leaks, my sister’s leaks, and my friend’s leaks.