First camping venture of the season!

Well Spring was here last weekend. Uriah wasn't working and the weather was B-e-a-utiful! So we decided to make use of the tent we bought for $10 bucks last summer at a yard sale.

We also rented a kayak... which was about twice as long as our little car.
So Jay & Phebe kindly lent us their new truck. This was a blast to drive. I LOVE driving trucks!!

We set up camp in the Wisconsin Dells... Waterpark Capital of the World!
(If that doesn't make you want to take your kids and come visit me, I'm not sure what will!)
(Oh -- and my waffle grilled cheese... those are sure to be a big hit)
You may not be able to tell in the pictures, but the campsite ground was all rocks. We only had sleeping backs and I knew that it would be painful and horribly, horribly, horrible to sleep on the ground. So I took a drive into town to get some sort of padding so we would enjoy our sleep in our new tent and our brand-spanking-new sleeping bags.

Well I have only been to the Dells twice... and so it took me quite a bit longer to figure out a quick route to Wal Mart and back... in fact I was gone an hour. Uriah stayed behind to make dinner, and I figured I would be half hour at the most. I came back and it was dark, he had steaks & chicken wings all fried up for me when I got back.
He got a little bored so he took a picture of our dinner.
That's my kind of roughing it!

I knew when I was in Wal Mart that it was taking longer than usual... so I indulged in some S'more materials. Uriah loves em! I like the chocolate and marshmallow part... but the graham crackers really seem to throw off the whole experience for me.My theory is that it's because Graham Crackers were what I had to eat for a recess snack in elementry school. While everyone else was eating fruit roll ups, I had graham crackers. Of course at the time this was atrocious but now I realize what a wonderful mother I had, making me eat healthy stuff!Good morning sunshine!
At WalMart I purchased one of those foam things that you put on top of your mattress for our camping trip. I figured that we can use it at home, and take it along when we are tenting too.
Sort of a double whammy kinda thing!
It was very comfortable. In fact the night would have been perfect except for a little mishap on my part. We bought two sleeping bags and I figured we could just zip them into one. Well the zippers had little caps on them so I thought it couldnt be done. We slept in a very drafty bed with one sleeping bag on the bottom and one over us. It was very cold and very uncomfortable.
In the morning, I discovered that in fact you could zip them together. So we zipped them up into one sleeping back and made up for lost sleep by sleeping in until 9! (we woke up at 6)
Our cute little campsite.