Family Camping Trip

We went on a mini-camping trip with the girls and Brad's parents a few weeks ago.  It was just over 1 night, but it was a good test camping trip to see how the girls would do.  (They did awesome! We're going to try making this an annual family tradition with Nana and Grandpa.)

 On our way to Ohiopyle State Park in Pensylvania, we stopped to eat sandwiches and visit a petting zoo of sorts, called Living Treasures Animal Park.

 There were a few animal statues and Munchkin insisted on taking a picture with each one.  Grandpa has most of the pictures on his camera, but we got this one on Brad's phone.

 After setting up camp, we made dinner-- hot dogs and corn on the cob-- and Papoose enjoyed lounging in the little camp chair.

 That is what pure joy looks like, my friends!

 Munchkin had been asking for Grandpa to take her fishing for weeks, so he finally made good on his promise to take her someday.  She helped put the bait on the hook, and then Grandpa helped her cast the line.

Then she reeled in a few times.  Didn't catch anything, and after about 15 minutes, decided it was more fun to play in the mud on the bank.
A week later, Munchkin came to me and said, "Mommy, I want YOU to take me fishing.  Then I'll catch a fish. I didn't catch any fish with Grandpa." (I've been fishing once in my life, when I was 10, and I didn't catch anything. And didn't want to catch any.)  Grandpa took this as quite a blow to his ego, and promised to take her to a good lake to go fishing soon. Admittedly, the location we were at was terrible for fishing when we were camping-- in a busy river with lots of people.  Mostly this particular "fishing trip" was to let Munchkin reel in a line a few times, thinking that would satisfy her desire to "go fishing." As it turns out, Munchkin really does want to catch some fish and spend time with Grandpa, and she realized our weak attempts to pacify her curiosity.  (She is way smarter than we give her credit for most of the time!)

We had lots of fun camping with the girls for the first time and look forward to our next family camping trip-- hopefully next year, but then we'll have a little baby boy, too. :-)