We got talked into going camping this weekend with 4 other families. Which, in theory, would be great fun, except we (Frank and I) hate camping. I had said originally that we would come out and spend the day, but somehow we ended up camping. They were staying Friday and Saturday night. We left Saturday evening (along with 3 other families, only the Canadians stayed.) I found out 2 days before the trip that the lake is bigger than lake Conroe, and they actually have houses to rent on the lake. Why I wasn't in a house I do not know!
Things I learned about camping in Canada:
1. Its cold!
2. The campsites on the lake are the worst ones. Its colder. Luckily we weren't on the lake.
3. When going to the boat launch/fishing area, drive! Turns out its quite a long way while pushing a stroller through gravel.
4. No one want's to take a shower when its freezing.
5. Everything smells like smoke.
6. The tent goes on the gravel ground, so bring lots of tarps.
7. There are no scary critters (no 'coons or opposums, or bears.)
8. Mosquitos are as big as horse fly's, but they don't really bite.
9. Cooking is not as difficult as it would seem, but doing dishes with freezing water is. Although keeping the bugs out of the cooking pot isn't easy.
10. If you bring a large pot to heat water over the fire and fill it with soapy water and use a wash cloth to clean the smoke off your face, it is the best thing ever, and probably would have helped you sleep had you done it before bed instead of after you got up.
11. Invest in the $200 off the ground air mattress, which we didn't.
12. If you must go camping, take a bunch of people so you don't see the kids for hours on end.
13. "Camp soap" is not necessary and no one knows what it really is, but since it was on the list I bought it.
14. The more you drink the more likely you have to pee at 4 in the morning, when its freezing, but at least the sun is up already.
And the final thought - get a hotel, RV, or house and save yourself all the trouble. Plus, it will be cheaper!
Tyler and Grant had field day this afternoon. I can't tell you how nice it is to have field day when its 72 degrees outside! Everyone seemed to have a great time, and the weather was perfect.
Tyler thought the water was too cold.
Mason wasn't sure when the water got up to his shorts.
Look at Grant way out in the back to the right.
Grant wasn't scared to jump in and swim.
Mason spent some time digging.
Mason found a tube of lipstick today. Luckily he only had time to put it on himself. He started with the lips, but ended with his knee. Turns out lipstick is very hard to get off skin.
As you can tell, Tyler is still recovering from our camping trip.
We even had watermelon. All of this left over from our camping trip. And notice how brite it is outside at 7 pm.
This is a bag of ice from our cooler. I think we over did it. This was in the cooler for about 30 hours, and then on our back deck for 15 hours. It was finally completed melted after 23 hours. We could have taken ice cream camping and it been fine.
We got talked into going camping this weekend with 4 other families. Which, in theory, would be great fun, except we (Frank and I) hate camping. I had said originally that we would come out and spend the day, but somehow we ended up camping. They were staying Friday and Saturday night. We left Saturday evening (along with 3 other families, only the Canadians stayed.) I found out 2 days before the trip that the lake is bigger than lake Conroe, and they actually have houses to rent on the lake. Why I wasn't in a house I do not know!
Here Mason is eating his yogurt in his new truck shirt.
And here he is playing with his new squirt tools in the tub! He kept squirting me and when I would say I'm wet he would say "sorry" and wipe it with his wet hand.
And this is a "scrum", but it looks very different from Tyler's team. Tyler only has 3 from each team in the scrum, and they don't really fight much.
