Sunday, July 19, 2009

Camping in the Hood Canal

Since Rebecca was at her Sensaria convention this past weekend, My sister and her kids, my parents, and myself and the kids all went up to the Hood Canal to camp for the weekend. Great weekend to camp considering he weather. We had a great time. There was swimming, fishing, walks, riding bikes and playing games, camp fires, waking up early and good food.







Right across from our camp site was a creek and the kids found it within seconds of our arrival. They loved playing in that even though it was a little cold. Noah and Nolan try to find a sun beam to warm themselves from the cold water.









They were up in trees and all over the place. We got some good pictures.












The kids and I slept in our tent and my parents slept in Stacy's tent trailer. It worked out well. The first morning my kids were up at 5:45, so we went fishing and I sat on the dock with my coffee. The second morning they slept until 7:15, which was so much better.






We moved right in and made ourselves at home with the white trash clothes line.







Grandpa got Jacob an article on the cold play concert and he was reading it to him. Anything cold play right now he loves. I had to pry the shirt off of him so we could wash it.







This is when we were getting ready to go fishing with all of the kids and it was an accident waiting to happen with all the kids and their fishing poles. We had some near misses.








It was like herding cats trying to get everyone and their gear down to the dock in the morning. At that time, the only casualty was Jacob hooking Papa's shirt while he tried to cast.









Jonah trying to get some quiet time while fishing.










Our park ranger played the violin and she walked around to each camp playing for you if you wanted. She played a couple songs for us and the kids just thought that was the greatest.

























Everyone was still for about 5 minutes while she played and then they were all up again working on their smores.










I took the kids out fishing early in the morning and was hooked by Jacob's hook while we walked back. Nearly a flesh wound. Little disinfectant and we were ready to go.










Mom and dad cooking breakfast in the morning as the kids ran around the camp ground in a pack.












Oh, did I mention that we had two dogs there as well with us. My parents brought Andy and Stacy had their puppy Chleo.










My dad did an in prompt to art project where he ground up charcoal from the fire, added water, and the kids found sticks and wrote and drew "like in the olden days". Hey, it took up about 30 minutes where the kids were busy.























then there was the constant swimming. Oh they had so much fun.


























Jacob wanted to be buried in the rocks. He loved the warm feel of all the rocks. It is a lot harder to bury someone in rocks than in sand.











Noah got in on the action as well.













Jacob, Jonah, and Isabelle, wanted to jump off the dock. They did that and then they wanted to jump off of the high part of the dock.











They had to swim back to shore each time. They had a blast.












Here they go off the high part.










Nolan and Noah ended up doing it too, which we were all surprised at.











There goes Aunt Stacy. Nolan wouldn't go in unless Stacy went in first so she had to make the plunge.











There goes Nolan.













There is Noah hanging on for dear life before he dropped.

















Jacob and Papa shucking corn for dinner. Learning something new every minutes of the day.

























Stacy's puppy who came along-very cute.













The kids getting settled in the tent at night.














The wilderness is your toilet Noah












Breakfast the last morning.













Then the kids starting catching little fish throughout the morning and they all wanted to bring them home.

























Grandma and Jonah on their way to fish.














Packing up the tent trailer. We had a great time and all of the kids got along so well. We hope to do this again soon.





































1 comment:

Michelle said...

Hi Rebecca! Yes, I am no longer on FB for a couple reasons, but I am having withdrawel symptoms, so who knows, I may be bacl on..lol. Morning's are usually good for me as far as the call to help get me bookings! Look forward to hearing from you. Received the new packet with new catalog and what not..can't wait to try them!