Camping... Yeah

I love being in the mountains and being outdoors away from all things electronic. My family is wayyyy too electronically stimulated so it was nice not to have a computer or a tablet or a phone in sight. But, I do not like sleeping at night outside with only a dome of nylon between me and all that roams in the night.

Mookie slept like a hot dog roaster- turning and turning all night until the morning when she finally got still.

We forgot our new cast iron skillet and griddle that we made a special trip to Scheels the night before to get. So we ended up in Kamas at Food Town buying this cheap set of cast iron so we could enjoy the smell of sizzling "bacoM".

The best thing we made was corn wrapped in foil cooked in the campfire. Oh yum, it was good. Cagey found one he said was a girl because of all the silk. We also made foil dinners in the fire, most of which we burned the be-shizzle out of. The potatoes just tasted like burning, yuck.

We hiked to Fehr lake which is one of the lakes I've caught a fish in, Glen. The kids griped and moaned about taking this little short hike, but they could have stayed all day throwing rocks in the water.

Ezra eating his s'more sitting on his "log seat".

The last night we were there I got a little bored (we forgot games) and started seeing what all the food we had would do if we roasted it in the fire. We threw in marshmallows and watched them expand into massive mounds of black goo. We fried some eggs on the metal ring. We roasted fruit snacks and lastly, cheese puffs. Really, I was just trying to get rid of some of the junk food. 

We definitely learned a few things on this camping trip.

1. Camping is more fun when your parents are there to do everything for you. Except I really enjoyed manning the cooking all by myself. 

2. Don't forget games because charades only lasts so long and then everybody gets sick of you acting like an idiot. 

3. Cagey can't hold his junk food and always bring a bowl in the tent when you're sleeping with the Nicolaysen puker Mcpukees. 

4. A sloped campsite means sloped eating and sleeping- which adds a new challenge to just about everything. 

5. Do not put your foil dinners close to the fire. Move the logs over and cook next to the heat source so your food doesn't taste like burning. 

6. We need an RV.