I know some of you have been waiting for me to blog this experience! haha So, we headed out to Jordan Lake (about 15-20 minutes away) to find a campsite at Crosswinds on Friday late afternoon. We found a great spot...couldn't see the lake, but it was okay. We chose a site where you walk down a few steps to the area. There was no campsite to the right of us, which was nice. Nobody was at the site to the left of us. So, we pitched our tent and got everything ready. It didn't take us long because we had the bare minimum. For dinner we cooked hot dogs over the fire, which Ian and Gavin thought was neat. We had watermelon, carrots and chips to complete our gourment dinner! Oh, toasted marshmallows, too. In this short amount of time, Cailean had at least 3 ticks crawling on him. I, of course, was not impressed. I understand ticks come with the territory, but I have never been near them camping before.
After dinner, we headed over to the boat ramp and fished from the dock. We all caught fish! Ian didn't know what to think when his own mother caught one!!! Of course then I had to tell him that I used to fish all the time with Grandpop and Uncle Muck at the Dog River in Northfield! He didn't know what to say when I told him I baited my own hook, too! Does he think only Cailean could do this? I didn't ask! haha
So, we headed back to the campsite and when Ian got into the truck, he said, "When we get back to the hotel room, I want to cook marshmallows." We chuckled and said, we're camping and not at the Hampton Inn!!!
When we got back to the campsite, we did a tick check and had to take care of that situation. Ticks must like males because I was tick free.
We got into the tent and it took a little bit before the boys would fall asleep. Yea, all four of us in the same tent. It was soooo ridiculously hot that we slept on our sleeping bags. Gavin chose to wake up two or three times crying. I'm surprised the Ranger didn't come over and kick us out! Cody barked a few times at some of the noises, too. I kept waking up thinking I had a tick on me and made Cailean get the flashlight to check. I was like, "Cailean, LOOK. I can feel it. I KNOW there is one right there." Nope, no tick.
When morning arrived, I realized that I should go to chiropractic school in my next life and then open up an office right outside campgrounds! How come nobody has thought of that yet?
We left this morning to get back to Cary. We had a "Meet the Teacher" time for one of Ian's camps he is doing this month.
It was really nice to be outside with no computer, no telephone (although we did have cell phones), no email, no tv, etc.
Other than the tick situation, the boys really enjoyed themselves! I'm sure we'll be doing this again.
Here's a link to the slideshow of pictures from our camping trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/turnbull1220/Camping
1 comment:
The tick thing is like the time when I was really young and dreamt there was a spider on me and woke up screaming!!
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