Camping at Big Creek

We went camping with a few friend from our coop group this last weekend. It was a lot of fun. Eric was at a golf tournament all weekend so it was just mama and the kids. That was fine, because the kids are very helpful, but we did run into a few problems.

For one, we had to cook all of our meals over the fire, because we forgot the Coleman stove. We also forgot some of the food in the frig at home, so we didn't have the variety that we had planned on. Mama spent SEVERAL hours blowing up an air mattress, because the pump was brought, but not the hose to attach it to the mattress. Ugh...

Despite all that, we had a great time. The big kids took a long hike on Saturday, while the rest of the kids spent almost the whole day in the creek. Mama even got in the creek despite the fact that it was extremely cold!

Someone in our group saw an Elk on Saturday and someone else saw a bear on Sunday.

All of the kids stayed up very late both nights, sitting around the camp fire, roasting marshmallows and talking with their friends. Unfortunately, most of us didn't get much sleep the whole time, so we headed home Sunday in a state of exhaustion.

There are a few more pictures of our camping trip on our Home School On the Go blog if you want to see more.