Happy Campers

For Memorial Day Weekend, we made last minute reservations to go camping at O'Neill Regional Park from Sunday to Monday. We invited our friends to join us this time. They have two kids, too, so there was a 1 year old, 2 year old, 3 year old, and 4 year old! The mom/daughter just hung out with us during the day and came back the next day. Maybe next time they can all sleep over. :)


We kept it simple: hot dogs for dinner, s'mores for dessert, scrambled eggs, sausage and hash browns for breakfast.


Snacking on apples.


We have found that bringing chairs is pretty essential for camping. The other family had a cool double chair that was like a loveseat.

The campsite was nice because each site had its own water faucet. Too bad it was so close to a noisy road, though. Also, shouldn't there be a rule that RVs cannot run their generators past 9 p.m.? Those things are LOUD! We were also close to the RV dumping station, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be.


This guy kept on waking up at night and had a hard time falling back to sleep :(


But, he had a nice nap the next morning!


The moms took the kids to the playground in the morning while the dads cleaned up camp and packed. The playground was pretty nice...zipline, sundial, wobbly bridge/balance beam, etc. I thought it was funny when a boy who was older than k went down the slide head first, and she said, "Be careful, little boy!" Someone didn't want to walk back.

It was nice camping with another family. Plus, they brought fun stuff like a notebook for k to color in and glow sticks for night. We're looking forward to our next camping trip in October. I think this will definitely be one of our family's traditions.