Camping with Elswoods

We went on our last camping trip this year with the Elswoods, but it was our first with them this year. A little odd as we usually go at least twice a year with them. Next year will be alot better, especially if we get a trip to Bear Lake in.

Well, I went up early with Kara on Friday, September 6th to set up camp and to get a camping site. David was at his first week of a new job and wouldn't be able to get off early to come up on Friday, so the Elswoods were going to come up on Saturday morning. Matt really wanted to go to Comicon 2013, so he went there and was going to meet up with me that evening.

I just really wanted to make sure we got a good spot and enjoy my favorite place, Ledgefork Campground, near Smith and Morehouse Reservoir.

I left around 11 am after Kara got up from her nap. As we drove up Parley's canyon I could see the rain clouds everywhere. I was hoping to have good weather enough to set up camp before any rain fall.

It took a bit of maneuvering, but I was able to get the canopy set up and Kara and some chairs under it before a down pour. While it rained I feed Kara and put her down for a nap. After the rain stopped, I went to putting up the tent. That took some time....possibly an hour or two...as I had never set it up before or even helped Matt with it, but I followed the instructions and presto, I put up the tent all by myself. I was quite pleased.

I even got all the gear into the tent while Kara hung out on the chair. Kara and I went for a walk around the campground. She enjoyed it immensely as it was the first time being faced forward in a stroller. She fell asleep.

Matt finally arrived in his Star Trek outfit 1/2 hour late, but just in time to make dinner and get a fire started. We enjoyed a nice evening together after having put Kara down for the night. We had some neighbors that pulled into the campground next to us at 11:00pm. I wasn't too happy, especially when they woke us up at 4:00 am to get ready to go hunting and start their stupid 4-wheelers. After I fed Kara, we went back to sleep. I even slept okay as we had borrowed some camping pads from Jared.

Saturday rolled around and we thought we had over slept because we didn't roll out of our tent until 9:00am. No Elswoods yet, so we started getting breakfast ready. We ended up eating at 10:30am. Fantastic timing as the Elswoods pulled up right in time. They ended up camping across from us. Krisitn and I ended up not feeling the greatest after eating though.

Matt and Kara (she is under the hood)

Well as our camping history goes, when the Elswoods and Monsons go camping together it RAINS. And boy did it RAIN and RAIN and RAIN. It was the start of 2 weeks of rain. Well we still ended up having fun.

We spent time under our canopy and in their tent trailer. In between raining spells, we had a few adventures: Matt and David took the kids on a walk.
We let the kids jump off a tree stump.

Katie

Parker part 1

Parker part 2

Parker part 3

Kids tried catching water skeeters in the river.
Kara took a couple naps.
Katie fell down and hurt her knee. Equaling into David having to dig a rock out of it.
Roasted Marshmallows late.
Stayed up late while ALL the kids slept in the tent trailer and went to bed at midnight.

All in all we had a lot of fun even with the rain. Elswoods didn't even have to pay for their camp site thanks to the camp host being so nice. We did though as I had pre-paid the day before, but we were able to have 2 cars at our site.


Can't wait until next year's fun when Kara is walking and into everything!