Camping Trip

Benji has been begging to go camping every since he missed the cub scout fall camping trip. We agreed to go out to a local campsite this weekend, which was a lot of work but overall a good experience:

Benji was super excited to help me make firestarters

We lucked out and got a beautiful camp site right by the creek:

This was haunted camp weekend, so the first thing we were able to do was to go to the Misty Mountain pumpkin patch and pick out a few pumpkins (this was lucky, since the local patch we usually frequent was completely rotted after so much rain):

Once we got settled, our friends the Dukes and Shadels joined us for a campfire dinner and trunk or treat around the campsite:

Benji and Dylan

Family themed costume. Abby had a Wheel of Fortune board, but at the last minute decided that she did not want to wear it.

After everyone left, we settled in to read around the campfire for a little while and then hit the sack in our tent, which was surprisingly comfortable: