Girls Camping Trip

A camping we will go! My friend BJ asked me on Monday if I was interested in going on an overnighter camping trip with her and her daughter. I thought about for about 1.5 seconds. Heck YES!!!!
So we packed up the Tahoe and took off Wednesday afternoon. We both arrived about the same time and set up camp. She had rented a Yurt, the best thing for this time of year. It has 2 bunk beds and a stove inside. The weather was great, so lucky! The kids took off to explore leaving us girls to bask in the sun. AWWWW mama bliss!

Miss Lucy, the rock start! She is totally into "posing" for pictures these days.

Adventure Mo! This girl knows how to camp!


Moose, we made an exception for him, being a boy and all. So he had to be the man of the camp...



And this.......well I don't think I even need to say anything about this.......


These kids have been friends for 6 years now...do the math, Caymus is only 5. And they all got along great. No fighting, at all!


And the mamas of camp!


My dearest Ethel...BJ is really her name!


I know this one is blurry (taken by a 7 year old), but I had to show this. BJ was kind enough to allow me to cook, she knows how much I love it! Thanks BJ! Its just my element, and according to Caymus I am an awesome cook!


Dinner!!!

BJ built us a rocking campfire. Here are the kids chillin by the fire. They were doing skits and singing us songs. Very funny and sweet.


After smores the kids were ready and excited for bed. They decided that they all 3 wanted to sleep in the queen bed. So we laid out their sleeping bags and snuggled them all in. I warned them that if they started fighting we would separate them all. I did encourage them to make it work because they would stay much warmer if they did! They agreed. Amazingly enough they made it all night along in that bed!
We then started a fire in the fireplace and headed back out to our campfire. And it was the best campfire EVER!!! After about 10 min or so, BJ asked if I felt that....what...that....rain....I denied it. Then when the fire started making sizzling noises I agreed that indeed it was raining. We braved it for a little bit, but then it really started to let go. We put out our fire and headed back in. Fortunately we put almost everything back in the Yurt because it poured all night long.
In the morning it was so cold and we could not get a fire started so we decided to pack up and head out. When 2 woman have not had coffee and are wet and cold they can really pack up fast! We were on the road by 9am!

I promised the kids I would take them out to eat, selfishly because I really wanted to be waited on and wanted a lot of coffee fast!!! So we made it back to Salem by 10 and went to Shari's.




A great time was had by all. I think we will do it again soon. Really it was a glorified sleep over but that works for me!!!

And now I am getting all my laundry done so we can go to Newport tomorrow....camping!