Our Camping Adventure

We went camping last week for what was supposed to be Tue to Thursday after breakfast. It rained a bit on Tuesday afternoon, but Wednesday it really came down.... for hours. We managed to get some of our dinner cooked in the fire, but finally decided at around 8pm that it wasn't going to let up (we were told earlier in the day the forcasts were calling for rain for the next 6 days). So we buckled the kids in the van and packed up in about 15 minutes and spent that night at home. The entire next day was spent cleaning up all the wet stuff, washing the wet clothes and drying out the wet tent. It was only a little over an hour away, so we didn't think the weather would be so much different than here in Albuquerque, but now we know.

We ordered a big 14'x14' tent online the week before we left and didn't think it would get here in time. But Tuesday morning as we were pulling out of the apartment complex to leave, prepared to use our small tent, the UPS van drove by. We flagged it down and sure enough our tent was on it! We did lose the plug to our air mattress and had to sleep on the floor and barely had enough blankets.

All in all we had fun, the kids had a blast and Darci slept GREAT on the floor in the tent. She really liked her first camping experience. We tried our hand at fishing, 3 different spots, but didn't catch a thing... not even a bite. I have to hand it to Tad. He showed a lot of patience. Not only did we not catch anything, but he spent a lot of time putting the fishing line on all the kids poles and fixing it every time they got them tangled up, which was a lot.

The campground....













This deer walked right by our tent. Tad got very excited like a little boy.





This is us waiting out the rain. Darci slept through most of the loud noise.

The campground lake....








Hiking....




The fish hatchery lake....








Fishing in the stream....