We headed off last week for our first camping trip of the year to Lake McConaughy. It was about a 5 hour drive. We left Wednesday night around 8pm so the kids slept the last couple of hours. We parked our camper in back of a friend's cabin that was about 15 minutes to the lake. There were 3 other families that were there so Jack and Will had a blast. The weather was warm each day and cool at night. Jack spent most of his time swimming and running in the sand with his truck. Will was content playing in the sand by himself or wandering out into the lake without his life jacket. We must have yelled 20 times "Will, come get your life jacket on!" Hannah sat in her little chair for the first day, the second day she decided that she loved playing in the sand and by the 3rd day she was starting to walk in the water. She is cautious and even more so with a lot of people around. Will is always by her side though to help her and play with her. The last night Will cried himself to sleep around 10pm when we returned from the lake because we did not have a bonfire. I had told him we would have smores one of the nights but it turned out that with such long days and no naps that everyone just crashed and the bonfire never happened. He still talks about it and how we were suppose to roast marshmallows and chocolate and did not. I assured him next time that we would get right to it the first night we arrived. The spot we camped at had train tracks directly in front of it and it was of course the busiest train track I have ever seen. I swear a train went by every 15 minutes around the clock. I am not exaggerating! Will, being the train lover that he is, thought it was great. Hannah on the other hand woke up each night around 2am and I had to bring her to sleep with us since she was scared of the train whistle. I am not sure why the trains whistled when they reached us but they did each time without fail. I almost forgot to mention that everyone brought their dogs and Jack spent a lot of time chasing them around and petting them. He loves animals and wants to be a vet or work in the zoo with the lions when he gets bigger! A couple of fun facts about this trip: 1. We used almost 2 full cans of sunscreen in 4 days and 2. After taking 99 pictures in 4 days and I am not in one of them! We had a great time and will definitely go back next year.
We headed off last week for our first camping trip of the year to Lake McConaughy. It was about a 5 hour drive. We left Wednesday night around 8pm so the kids slept the last couple of hours. We parked our camper in back of a friend's cabin that was about 15 minutes to the lake. There were 3 other families that were there so Jack and Will had a blast. The weather was warm each day and cool at night. Jack spent most of his time swimming and running in the sand with his truck. Will was content playing in the sand by himself or wandering out into the lake without his life jacket. We must have yelled 20 times "Will, come get your life jacket on!" Hannah sat in her little chair for the first day, the second day she decided that she loved playing in the sand and by the 3rd day she was starting to walk in the water. She is cautious and even more so with a lot of people around. Will is always by her side though to help her and play with her. The last night Will cried himself to sleep around 10pm when we returned from the lake because we did not have a bonfire. I had told him we would have smores one of the nights but it turned out that with such long days and no naps that everyone just crashed and the bonfire never happened. He still talks about it and how we were suppose to roast marshmallows and chocolate and did not. I assured him next time that we would get right to it the first night we arrived. The spot we camped at had train tracks directly in front of it and it was of course the busiest train track I have ever seen. I swear a train went by every 15 minutes around the clock. I am not exaggerating! Will, being the train lover that he is, thought it was great. Hannah on the other hand woke up each night around 2am and I had to bring her to sleep with us since she was scared of the train whistle. I am not sure why the trains whistled when they reached us but they did each time without fail. I almost forgot to mention that everyone brought their dogs and Jack spent a lot of time chasing them around and petting them. He loves animals and wants to be a vet or work in the zoo with the lions when he gets bigger! A couple of fun facts about this trip: 1. We used almost 2 full cans of sunscreen in 4 days and 2. After taking 99 pictures in 4 days and I am not in one of them! We had a great time and will definitely go back next year.
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