My Camera is Missing...

If you click to make the picture bigger, you will see that Preston is riding his bike without training wheels!  He's gotten really good in the past couple of weeks and was speeding around the campground.  Archer & John were lagging behind while I kept up with the big boys.

...so I have one lone camping picture from last weekend.  I KNOW the camera is at home somewhere, and I'm very thankful that it is the little cheap-o camera that is missing vs. the big expensive one that I refuse to take anywhere.

We intended to go to Glacier Nat'l Park, but ended up canceling due to Preston saying he wasn't feeling well, and weather predictions of (1) 22 degrees (2) thunderstorms (3) snow showers.  When Preston miraculously recovered after about 8 hours of sickness, we decided to head to our favorite little campground that is relatively close by.  It was COMPLETELY FLOODED.  We continued on to a camping area that was recommended to us as being on a "little creek."  Turns out, when the water levels are high, it is a gigantic rushing river that pretty much takes over the entire camping areas and even encroaches on the road a bit.  Also, it is meant for TENT CAMPING and John had to turn the truck/trailer around on a tiny 1 lane road right next to this "little creek" aka gigantic rushing river.  By this time, the boys were a little on edge, as was I, and it was getting dark...

Luckily we found another campground that was along the same road as our favorite one...it's bigger with a higher price tag, but at that point, who were we to complain???  We found out when we got there that there was something wrong with the (new) battery that we had just bought for the trailer, and our heater wouldn't work without hooking up the electrical.  THANK GOODNESS we didn't go to Glacier...the campground we were going to stay at doesn't have any electrical hook-ups and we would have FROZEN.  This campground DID have hook-ups, so we were nice and toasty.

But the best part about it?  We were only about 5 minutes from a kid's fishing clinic.  P&B caught a fish, learned to clean it, got it cooked, and ate it right on the spot.  Pretty impressive for my little animal-lovers who have always insisted on being "gentle" to the fish. 

So, this time we made it 2 nights camping.  I'm pretty sure that is our max, and I'm not really sure that I want to try any longer than 2 nights!  Maybe someday...