Our camping adventure

Since the weather has been nice and it was Big Daddy's three day weekend, we decided to go camping over the weekend. Why do my great ideas always turn into a folly.

We actually got out of the house on time, but leaving town was another story. We drove all over looking for the Starbucks instant coffee to take with us, but we couldn't find any.

After stopping at my work and to visit my mom, we finally made it to our destination. There were very few people in the campground, so we had a lot of sites to choose from. We chose the site with the biggest area for the kids to run around. After setting up our tent and getting things situated, we decided to go the general store.

It was at this point that Lovey became stuck in his car seat. Seriously. I laughed and laughed and I am still laughing because really what can you do. One of the latches would not release and he was stuck. We have had this car seat for 4 years because Lovey still fits in it, but I guess 4 years of daily use and crumbs being spilled into it caused it to stop working - with Lovey in it. The nearest store I could think of that would sell car seats was Walmart and it was 45 minutes away. I hate Walmart and this visit reinforced that. I finally left the store with a booster seat even though Lovey is not quite 40lbs, but I wasn't spending $200 on a car seat.

We were ready to cut Lovey out of the car seat and stopped by my dad's for some scissors. Dad was able to free Lovey from his car seat (it had been over 2 hours) and we installed the booster anyways. (Dad later put some WD-40 in the latch and it seems to be working again.)

We finally made it back to the campsite, well after the kids' dinner time. We roasted hot dogs and made smores (or snores as Lovey called them). My mom and Scott came out for dinner too.

After freezing all night long, we went hiking in the beautiful sunshine. Littlebit had to be carried some of the way to the waterfall, but Lovey walked the 1.5 miles.


That night we made hot dogs again, but we were rained on so we didn't make smores. My mom and Scott left early and we crawled in the tent to read books.

By Sunday I was tired. Our air mattress deflated during the night and the ground was rocky. (whine, whine, whine) On our way out of town we had a delicious lunch at my grandparent's to celebrate my grandpa's birthday.

It was a crazy weekend, but we had fun.