Last Friday Ben and I along with Katy and Renjy piled into the car and headed out to Cascade Locks for a fun-filled weekend of camping. We were on our way to meet up with Ben's parents (and Buddy the dog too), who recently purchased a camper and were eager to make use of it.
We got to the KOA camp site just as the night was setting in and rushed to set our tents up before all the light was gone. I was a little rusty at putting up my tent. It's been years since the days of backpacking with Dad and Tara...took me a little longer than it used to.
After the tents, we wandered over to Dean and Becki's site to sit around the warm camp fire and chat. It was great. I love spending spending time with my future in-laws. Camping is one of my favorite things. I love that I'm coming into a family that loves to do the outdoorsy things I did while I was a "little pip-squeak" (as Dad always called me).
Friday night was freezing! I was so cold, all alone in my little tent. Smelly tent too. I don't think it had been set up since those old backpacking days. It had that musty smell to it. I woke up the next morning to Buddy hugging my head and licking my face. And Katy and Renjy singing Michael W. Smith songs from their tent. I like waking up early, I usually consider myself a morning person, most of the time. But I'm not used to a dog in my face...or singing in the morning for that matter. At that particular moment, I'm definitely not a morning person.
That day the campsite managers cooked a pancake breakfast for everyone. Afterwards Katy and Renjy decided to go on a hike. Ben and I would have gone but I forgot to pack hiking shoes. So Ben and I stayed in the camper, watched TV, drank tea, read a book, talked with Becki, and took Buddy for a walk. When Katy and Renjy came back we roasted marshmallows and hot dogs. We tore down the tents because we didn't want to freeze again. So we all piled into the camper for our last night there. Good thing we did because it began to rain. We played some card games, Skip-Bo, and Apples to Apples. We never got around to Settlers though. That night, all stretched out in our sleeping bags nice and snug in the camper, we put on an old movie, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" before we all fell asleep.
The next morning we had a quick breakfast and packed everything back up into Renjy's car and headed home.
It was a fun weekend. I kinda forgot how fun camping was. Now I can't wait to go again.
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