Camping!

We went camping this past weekend to Turner Falls! It just so happened that Chris had the weekend off and Joe, Misti and the kids were available too. So, we packed up and headed off to Turner Falls on Friday afternoon. We set up camp, made hamburgers, took the kiddos on a walk down to the river and then took like a 5 mile hike (JOE!) down to the Falls from our campsite at 9:30. Yes, I mean 9:30 PM...and yes we were the ONLY ones out at that hour walking around. The kids thought it was fun though because we got to use our flashlights. We got back to our campsite around 10:30 and made a campfire and Joe made smore-like-quesadillas. They were pretty yummy even if that sounds a little weird.



















A raccoon woke us up around 2:30AM digging through our trash and I freaked out (I NEVER sleep well when camping b/c I hear things constantly). Finally around 3:30AM Chris got up with me to walk to the restrooms. We saw several cute little baby bunnies walking across the road...the high light of a trip to the restroom at this hour. After we got back I was able to go back to sleep again. But we were woke up by some very loud "CAWWWW....CAWWWW"-ing a crazy bird was doing at 7:30 AM. Ben goes "hey, that bird woke me up" To this, Chris and I could only laugh. We spent most of Saturday playing in the river...after many comments from the kids "I WANT TO GO TO THE RIVER" repeatedly while waiting for our extremely long and drawn out breakfast...but it was worth the wait b/c it was YUMMY!! The kids were not impressed though by the wait and could have cared less if they ate any eggs.

Ben had a BLAST playing in the water...Taylor not so much. That evening after we packed up camp we set off to Arbuckle Wilderness. I don't think I have laughed that much in a long time. Let me explain...Ben, who LOVES animals, was absolutely terrified of the animals that basically came into our vehicle while trying to feed them. He shoved his entire body into the dash when we were feeding the zebras. I was cracking up so hard that the zebra got tired of waiting for me to feed it so it decided to stick its mouth in my cup full of food. Later down the road, the only thing Ben would feed was the miniature donkeys...which were cute. It was so funny because he had his little arm pressed so hard to the door arm rest that I could not roll down the window (he was sitting in the front seat with me). Haha!