We Camped

We survived our first camping trip, although our ears are still ringing from the inordinate amount of whining that accompanied us at times.

Here's what the kids said they liked:
Sleeping in the tent
The fire pit
Cooking hot dogs on the fire pit
Fishing

Josh did not like:
The uphill hike, which apparently hurt his legs and made him too tired to proceed

Roasting marshmallows also didn't got over too well. Josh preferred his unroasted, and Molly sat by the fire with a slightly roasted marshmallow in her hand and licked it for about half an hour. That was one of the moments I wished we had foregone the "primitive" campsite for one with a water spigot.

We also took the kids on a hike to find a geocache, but Josh whined so much that we stopped about a quarter mile from the cache and turned around. He made an amazing recovery when we turned around and quickly made it back to camp.

Here we are heading into the hike, and Josh already has a look of hesitation on his face. He should have been glad he didn't have a 30-pound kid strapped to his back.

This geocache involved finding several intermediate points, where someone had nailed pennies to trees (not the easiest thing to find in the forest). The dates on the pennies were part of coordinates to the next point.

We actually managed to find all of the pennies, so it was pretty disappointing to have to turn back before we reached the geocache. Here's how Josh looked right before we told him we were turning around. It pretty much sums up his attitude toward hiking.

We had planned to take the kids swimming in the Green River this morning, but it was cold and overcast. We packed up our campsite early and headed to the apple orchard we usually go to in the fall. There were lots of apples this year and several vines full of grapes.

All in all, it was a fun trip, although cleaning up and putting away all of the stuff for a 24-hour camping trip has taken several hours. I'm just hoping I can get the dried marshmallow out of Molly's hair tonight!