Camping...well, sorta

Sorry it's taken me so long to get this post up! I had lots of pictures and haven't had much spare time these days! Here's the rundown of our first attempt at Huffman Camping!

This is where we wanted to go camping...mountainous, green, lots of water.

This is where we ended up...Our morning started great and we were excited to get out of town and head for the hills, the water and lots of nature. Unfortunately, when we reached our destination (a reservoir where Andy had been camping with some friends several times before) we realized the reservoir had been drained! NO FUN. Our plans of camping beside a large body of water were the first to get thrown out the window. We decided we didn't have to have water to have a fun camping experience, so we pitched the tent, told our driver good bye (who by the way, thought we were insane for taking our two little ones out the in middle of no where to sleep in a tent beside a dried up reservoir) and tried to make the best of our first camping experience. At first, things went great! We had a simple PB &J lunch and EG munched on fruit!

We picked up lots of sticks for the campfire and explored the area!

Jack took a great nap in the tent and even sported his cute camper gear!

But then, they started to come...lots of them....

Now we like kids, don't get me wrong. But since the reservoir is now dried up, there is lots of new land and our once secluded little spot is now very accessible to people from several villages surrounding the reservoir. Lots of people came by...not just kids. And they were all very friendly. Some even stayed for a good long while! This of course, wasn't what we had hoped for. In a land where people are every where, part of the appeal of camping was to get out in nature and to be alone, just us and the trees. EG, being the social little butterfly that she is, loved the company and made herself right at home with this little gang of girl visitors. After several visits from people ranging in age from 3 to 70, we decided it might not be safe to camp there overnight. OH WELL! We decided to make the best of it and push the s'mores festivities up a few hours and then call it quits. LOVING THE S'MORES is a bit of an understatement!

I am pretty sure we all ate a good amount of grass with our s'mores! I even "Flambeanied" one in honor of my Grandma. We did this for her when we were little and she loved it. Or did she? Gmaw, please let me know, did you really like those flambeanied marshmallows or did you just do that so we wouldn't feel bad when we accidentally torched one? We always thought she loved them that way, so we would make sure to make lots of flambeanies for her, plus it is fun to torch marshmallows! Gmaw, you've probably eaten more charcoaled marshmallows than anyone on the planet! You're the BEST! I made sure to tell Andy about how much fun we had going camping at the lake for all those years. Sure do miss those days. Can't wait to take our kids to Buggs Island! After the S'mores, we packed up and headed home. After the kids went down, Andy ran out and got us some yummy McDonald's. After a full 8 hours of roughing it, we thought we would treat ourselves! HEHE! We decided we will definitely try camping again...we just need to find a new spot with more water and less visitors!