This past week we decided that since we were going to have a 3-day weekend that we would take the girls camping. Our kids have never gone camping before so the whole week, they were just sooooo excited about going. I think I heard about 100 times a day..."is today the day we go camping Mommy?" and "is it Sunday yet so we can go camping?"
FINALLY Sunday came and after church we came home...loaded up the car and went out to Tejas Park at Lake Georgetown. This park is really cool. They have 12 "tent only" camping sites and each site has a lantern stand, picnic table, fire pit and an area to set up your tent as well as TONS of trees. Anyway, we get to Tejas Park, go pick out the site we want and start to unload. The girls loved the big tree we had at our site. It had two big branches that came down to the ground and they used the branches as swings. We got the tent all set up and then took the girls on a hike of the area.
They found butterflies, capterpillars, grasshoppers, scorpions (yes we even had scorpions...but they were off in the woods...not near our tent) and all kinds of bugs that you would expect to find outside. Right there at the park is the tip of the lake with a crystal clear swimming hole. The water was perfect! Not too hot, not too cold...it was no more than about 5 feet deep all the way across so we got the girls in their swimsuits and took off for the swimming hole. After an hour or two we decided it was dinner time. The girls got to roast hot dogs over an open fire, which of course they also throughly enjoyed. And of course who could forget the experience of smores on an open fire. We all LOVED that part!
After a night of tent sleeping, which wasn't bad at all, since we had such a nice breeze and it was a cool night. We took the kiddos fishing...we didn't catch anything, but we did manage to drown a few worms. One more trip to the swimming hole then it was time to come home. All in all we had a FANTASTIC camping trip and the girls LOVED every minute of it. From hiking in the dark with our flashlights and lanterns, to cooking over an open fire, to just swinging on the tree branches. This is a family activity that we are DEFINETELY going to be doing again!
Hope you all had a great long weekend too!
Jessica
