We decided at the last minute to go on a camping trip to celebrate the three day weekend. We have had our eyes on a great camping location for a while now, but it was closed due to tornado damage and cleanup. Well, we were so excited to find out it was open now. There are only 8 camp sites, they cannot be reserved, and they are hike in only. We left right after school and were the first ones there! We so thought we would not get a site since it was a holiday weekend and the forecast was so nice, but we did. We have decided that our little camping site is a secret little gem out there and not many people know about it. We plan to keep it that way. We got there and did some hiking to decide which camp site to take, hiked back to our car, hiked back to the site with most of our gear. We left the kids at the site to look for kindling while we went back for one more load. We got back to the site, Chuck and the kids got the fire going and then set up the tent while I got the food ready. After a bit, I cooked the burgers on the grill and then we ate! After that we went on another hike in the semi-darkness. Lily scared and we decided to go back. We sat around the fire and I read some stories and then we had s'mores! It was at this time that we started to hear the coyotes. I felt a little freaked out about it, but kept my cool! We cleaned up and headed to the tent for bedtime. We were all pretty tired!
In the morning, we got up, started the fire and decided the best thing to eat for an appetizer to breakfast was s'mores and hot cocoa! We then went on another hike and would have loved to go further, the kids were having a blast, but we had to be at the nature center for Monarch tagging, so we headed back. We decided to skip breakfast. We all got changed, cleaned up the camp site, packed up and hiked out. It was everyone's favorite camping trip and we can't wait to do it again soon.
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