Friday we head out for another camping trip. This time we are going with friends. This time we will be staying in a tent. This will be the first tent experience for the girls. They are looking forward to it and it should be a good time. We all (parents and kids) get along well. Plus I will have another mom to share the meal duties with. Yeah! The weather has turned a bit yucky with rain, thunderstorms and general cloudiness. I hope it dries up. I hope it won’t be too cold. Hubby and I don’t have sleeping bags so we will have to make some sort of bed on inflatable pads and blankets. I guess I don’t really plan on getting good sleep. Thankfully I can sleep in when we return. We don’t get to the beach very often. In fact I don’t really even like to call it a beach, because the word evokes feelings of warmth and sun and slight breezes. That is not what we get on the Pacific Northwest. We get cold, windy, very windy weather most of the time. So I will call it the coast. We are going camping on the coast.
This was taken 2 years ago. We went last summer, the summer we met Max. We don’t go very often, even though it is only an hour away. I have no idea why. It might have something to do with it being cold there. I will hopefully have some fun photos to post when we return.
Susan
We are in the Pacific NW too… moved up from the Bay Area about 9 years ago – and I don’t call it the beach either… that’s funny. I never really noticed it – but, we always called it ‘the beach’ in California… and here, it’s always ‘the coast’. We camped for Family Camp with our church at Ft. Stevens and it rained the entire time… at the end of July. Hopefully the weather will be nice for you this weekend and you’ll be pleasantly surprised 😉
Jenni
Hopefully this will all distract you a bit from the home selling stress – & you’ll have a ton of fun and so return as a bunch of happy campers 🙂
Hi! Honestly, I can’t retrace the trail I found you on but am glad that I did. :o)
I am a Christian,stay at home mom, college student, recently divorced (but healing through Gods Love), home business, homeschooling, mama to five woman. That sounded as long as some of Starbucks drinks huh?
Anyway, I agree that camping on the coast is cold. We live 20 minutes from the beach in South West Washington.
Lori
Did I just read…FIRST experience in a tent? whoa girl. Oregonians are pretty hardcore about nature and all things outdoors. 🙂
It’s supposed to be AWESOME this weekend at the coast. YOu picked a perfect weekend.
Do take pictures. Of your ‘bed’ too. 🙂
Have a great trip, Susan! I love going camping with friends for the very reason that the cooking and cleaning duties are shared!!! It makes things SO much more enjoyable.
I do recommend sleeping bags though, even if you have to borrow them. It keeps you warm and for the kids especially, you don’t have to pack pillows (although *I* must have mine!). They are also handy dandy if you have a house full of company and limited bedding. 🙂
Hi Susan-
Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog and explain the linking thing for me. I really appreciate it and I think I finally have it figured out! Hope you guys have a great time camping this weekend… I’m in AZ where it’s still 100+ degrees outside, so camping sounds wonderful right about now! Love your mistreatments too by the way!!!
that is a great picture! i hope you have fun. i am a bad camper… which means I hate it.