Spontaneous Camping Trip!

I didn't even think about school for most of this weekend! It was a very welcome break.

My husband and I took our first camping trip together. It was pretty spontaneous. He came up with the idea around 10:00 on Friday morning. Next thing I knew, we were out checking on the camping areas around the lake on his lunch break. We had to reserve our spot as soon as we found it - just to make sure no one else would take it, of course - but he also had to go back to work. I ended up setting up the tent by myself! It's not a difficult task, but I was proud of myself.

We spent the weekend sitting around the fire, hanging out at the lake, reading in the sun, and eating wonderful camp food. It was a little chilly. I think the high yesterday was somewhere around 69 degrees, and it dropped down to the low 50s during the night. Plenty of sweatshirts, blankets, and, of course, plenty of snuggling kept us warm. What a great weekend!

This is what our campsite looked like. Our tent looks tiny, but it fits our queen sized air mattress with some extra room. Also, we learned a thing or too about raccoons... Around 11:00 last night, we heard our bags of food rustling and knew it couldn't be the wind. There was a fairly decent-sized raccoon digging for some supper. He took off with our bread but dropped it by the truck. Goofy raccoon!

We made some tasty pizza pockets on the fire. Pretty simple - pita bread, pizza sauce, pepperoni and Canadian bacon, and cheese all wrapped in foil. They were fabulous. We also made the obligatory hot dogs and s'mores on the fire as well.

Hopefully, we have plenty of camping weekends in the future. It was a fabulous time.