Camping with My Wife and Kids: 2013-05-19

I'm quite behind on making this post since the camping trip I'm writing about happened at the beginning of May. Most people reading this blog probably have kids and are going through or have been through the fun of having little ones and the joy that comes with spring and trying to get them to sports practices and such as well as getting things done at home which, at least for me, ramps-up significantly when the weather starts to get better.

We managed to be doing pretty well for fitting in camping so far this year. Anytime you can get 2 weeks of camping in before mid-April has to be a good thing. Some friends of ours recently purchased a used motorhome. Not an Airstream, but hey, camping is the important part; an Airstream is just icing on the cake. They had never owned any RV at any point in their life. The owners are, however, very handy so I didn't think they'd need much help. Nevertheless, they asked our family to accompany them to a local state park for their first real outing in the "new" motorhome. Of course we agreed, but due to the aforementioned stuff that gets in the way in the spring, we really only spent two evenings and a late afternoon at the campground. We managed to fit in soccer practice, grocery shopping, lunch out, and a beat-the-mother's-day-rush-to-the-local-greenhouse run. This of course also required a trip by home to drop everything off and to grab some items that we forgot to take camping the night before. Who would have thought with a fully stocked and previously camped-in-that-year motorhome that you'd be missing things. Happens all the time, though.

I didn't manage to get any pictures of the campsite despite it being everything that one would expect from a state park. We managed to use some of our afternoon time back at the campsite to go on a hike. There was quite an elevation change during the hike, so everyone got a good workout.