We went camping last weekend! Well sort of. We left home around 3pm and hit traffic. We didn't make it to the campsite until 6pm. By 7pm we were set up.

We had dinner and then went for a dip in the lake.My water baby had a grand ole time! We got back to our site around 9 and got the fire started and then got Dechlan into his PJs. Since it was his first camping trip, he was a bit freaked out by the dark. He got over that once he started roasting marshmallows.  I would like to point out that I have a weird kid. He doesn't really go in for the sweet stuff. He ate 1 marshmallow and decided that was enough for him. He liked to actual roasting of mashmallows more than eating them.

Around 10pm he started yawning so it was time for a stop at the outhouse and then off to bed. I also want to point out that he thought peeing in the 'hole' was the greatest thing ever. I'm not going to lie, I'm terrified of outhouses at night. I will hold it until morning. No joke.

He was passed out in no time. We got to enjoy some adult quiet time and then we started yawning. We cleaned up and put out the fire and went to bed. It was so hot that I had a hard time sleeping. Nick can sleep anywhere and in most environments. I'm jealous of that.

I'm not sure what time it was, but our fire decided to somehow spark back to life. Nick had to get up and put it out again. Then we heard some kind of animal running around. That must have woken Dechlan up, so he ended up coming to lay in our tent. He snuggled in and I thought he was going to go back to sleep but instead decided it was time to have a chat with his Mommy.

What felt like hours later, we started falling asleep and then Nick started snoring. Dechlan decided he wanted me to go sleep in his tent with him. So off we went to his tent. We both fell asleep pretty fast. 6am rolled around and Dechlan starts singing and playing drums on my butt. Time to get up I guess.

Nick and Dechlan toddle off to go pee and then the rain started. Seriously, I've never gone camping where it didn't rain. I'm okay with rain. I swear to you, I thought I was going to see Noah's ark float by. It was awful. Thunder and lightning. 3 hours go by and the rain just keeps getting worse, the wind was really picking up and freaking Dechlan out. Finaly we decide it's time to give up and go home. Dechlan was just frantic at this point. Plus his tent was leaking.

So we put Dechlan in the car to stay warm and out of the rain. We start parking stuff up and the rain keeps getting worse. We we SOAKED by the time we were done. Our rental car has to be cleaned before we give it back because of all the rain and mud that got tracked in.

The lesson we learned? Don't book a camping trip a week in advance. If there is ANY chance of rain, I will not go. Nope, I hate camping in the rain.

I'm sorry, Grandma and Grandpa. I WILL complain and NOT camp in the rain.

We`re going camping this weekend!!! I`m super excited!! This will be Dechlan`s first overnight camping trip.

Since our car is in the shop due to the car accident so we have a pretty rental car. It`s big so we won`t have to worry too much about packing things up.

I`ve made a nice little list of what I need to buy and pack. I`ve got most of it together. This week will be spent making cookies and making the pasta salad for the trip. I have to go though our storage locker and get all our stuff out as well.

I`m really excited. I think D will have a great time.

Since camping with Dechlan was such a bust, Hubby and I decided to go on our own for 2 nights. It was great until 10pm the first night. We went for a hike and then had lunch at the beach, found a site and then set up everything. We went for a small walk to explore and then sat for a little bit and read. In the late afternoon we went to Lake Simcoe which was really close to our site. Swam for an hour and then went to shower. Yes, we showered. I may love camping but I don't like being dirty and I certainly don't like outhouses (Ew). After showering we made dinner. BBQ chicken breasts and ceasar salad. We read until about 8:30 and then started our fire. We are terrible at building fires. We built it enough so that we could roast marshmallows and enjoy the sounds and smells of a campfire. Our fire died around 10-10:30pm which was okay because we were getting tired. It started to rain once we started putting things away. Just a light drizzle at first and once we were in our tent it started to just pour down on us. It didn't let up for hours and hours. It started to thunder and had some lightning and it woke us up. We looked around the tent to make sure it wasn't leaking and sure enough it was start to leak into the tent. It was about 3am and we heard people leaving from the sites around us. We had actually contemplated leaving too. But It was a one hour drive home and honestly, we just weren't sure it was a good idea to leave in the middle of the night. So we just put towels down and went back to sleep. Once we woke up we found that EVERY was soaked. Our picnic table was so wet that we weren't sure we would be able to use it that day. So we packed up our stuff, got a refund for the 1 day and headed home.

it was a great camping trip until the rain, haha! Next year we will be better prepared for rain that is for sure!