Dave’s friend, Adam, had never been camping.

Until a little more than a week ago.

We decided to introduce him to the wonderful world of camping. Adam and his son (Alex) joined our little family up Right Hand Fork the last weekend of June for all kinds of camping fun! We roasted hotdogs, made smore’s, and did a little geocaching. We even tried telling ghost stories… we weren’t so good at those. In the morning we cooked up some eggs and sausage. We all had a great time – and I think we even managed to convince Adam that he might like to go camping again some time.

Here are a few pictures from our camping adventure!

On the way up to Right Hand Fork we stopped to find a geocache. I think they called it a “natural” cache, or something like that. Anyway, the thing we actually came to find was that strange patterned rock-like thing we are sitting on. Its actually fossilized worms… (or so it claims to be). Pretty weird and gross but also kind of interesting.

Adam and Alex by their tent.

This picture was taken just after Bridget decided that she was tired. She had played pretty hard and finally announced that it was bedtime and tried to get everyone else into their tents. She was a little sad that the rest of us wanted to stay awake a bit longer… I told her she could sit on my lap and rest though. Look at that dirty little face – I’m not sure how it got so dirty, but she sure had a good time.

Adam and Dave. The picture says it all – no explanation needed.

Our little family all gathered by the fire.

Our little orphan child… all ragged and dirty – lol! She loved climbing up that branch.

Saturday morning Geocaching!

Dave and Alex scaled up the side of a mountain to get to this one… once at the top they found the actual trail that would have let them there safely. Lol, the things we won’t do for an ammo box of dollar store toys! Hehe…

We had a great time camping! On the way down we all started contemplating where our next camping adventure would be… we’re thinking Tony Grove, 2 nights, renting canoes, fishing, and geocaching – hopefully our crazy summer schedules will allow for such things at some point!