Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Camping at Lake of the Ozarks

Yes, we went camping with a 10 month old that walks...some people call us crazy. We received a phone call from both of our Mom's before we left telling us to be careful and extra protective. Only one oops when he fell of the cement (has a little scratch of his head to prove it). We were constantly on guard and took turns watching Andrew so he would not get hurt. The portable highchair was key to get him to sit and then the pack and play was a big help too (he cried for the first 5 minutes and then he was fine). He really enjoyed the outdoors and weaning went better because he was so busy playing.


Our site was right on the lake so it was beautiful. Lots of time to play in the grass, go hiking, wade in the lake, have picnics and cook good food (well, we are still trying to perfect our cooking over the camp fire...I guess we need to start with making a good fire which we struggled with and then we cheated and go lighter fluid...I think my Dad will be very disappointed. Needless to say we did get the fire going).

TICKS! I had them crawling on me all night, yet they weren't on Ryan so he decided to keep sleeping..what a hubby :) Needless to say I got 4, he got 1 and Andrew had 2 on his but they didn't embed. I have never hated something more in my life and I itch right now thinking of them.

STORMS! We had 2 huge storms (they were at 10 pm each so really didn't stop us from doing anythhing). Heat lightening...wow! and then the loudest thunder we ever heard (plus we were in the tent). The ranger came around for the first storm and had us come to the shelter because they were expecting worse. Andrew was great...he slept through it all. What a true camper!

1 comment:

Brian & Erin said...

Sounds like great fun! Thanks for all the pictures and updates. We enjoy seeing and knowing what's up in your world.

Can't wait till July... It'll be here before we know it! :)

-E