This idea all started when I was on a bike ride. I ride through this massive campground on my way to Big Creek Lake and I noticed there was a cool circular wagon train style camping spot that looked perfect! The catcher was that you had to rent the whole thing - like 8 campsites.
So I booked it for the last weekend before school started and emailed a bunch of friends. Well, they all came for the most part!
Andersens, Willers, Millers, Shoemakers (for some of it), Bosworths, Ensleys, us and Stones. We had just enough room to all spread out.
I created a "bring it list" so that people just had to bring large quantitates of one thing versus planning 3 meals for their family. We had hot dogs, and walking tacos, fruit, pancakes for breakfast and drinks galore. Had a great time eating and "hiking" the small trail as well as bike riding and going to the playground. We were pretty near a restroom so that was convenient.
Ensleys brought their pup Holmes and their awesome sleeping setup!
The scavenger hunt and giant bubbles were a hit. Also had a bean bag game and wiffle ball.
Most of the kids had flashlights or headlamps and I brought enough glow sticks and bracelets to share. The kids ran around until 10:30 playing their little good guy/bad guy game. We all talked about how well they did both in sleeping in tents as well as all getting along so well! No fighting and everyone laughed and had so much fun!
The next morning Kenna and Chloe headed to the playground and came rushing back after a little while. Chloe had slipped on the slide and broken part of her tooth. We all felt terrible! It involved rushing home, an emergency dentist and lots of tears...NOT the way we had intended to end our camping trip! I think at this point all is well, and we hope that the happy times outweighed the accident! I hope we can do it again next year!!!
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