Camping Camping Camping

I'm really looking forward to going camping with everyone in July.  Hopefully we will be able to do this each year, we could start a new tradition, wait a minute, it's not a new tradition - it's a revived tradition.  I remember all of those good times when the cousins went camping together.  Do you remember?

I remember . . .

• being at an art fair and buying a Jacob's Ladder and then sitting next to Aunt Carol when a bird pooped on her - it was shocking.
• going to Yellowstone Park and seeing a bear and making a song up about it.  I also remember visitng one of the falls at the park.  It had a big rock formation jutting out from behind the water.  I was 2 years old (Alaina's age) and I kept thinking to myself that I didn't understand why the rock wouldn't fall.
• making Grandma laugh so hard at the "garage sale" jokes that she, well, umm, how should I put this?, tinkled
• touring Lake Superior
• making forts out of Grandma and Grandpa's lounger chairs that bent in two places to make a teepee shape
• celebrating birthdays on the picnic tables
• riding our bikes at the campgrounds
• building big fires together

We had so much fun and I am so excited to see the tradition is being revived and carried on to the next generation.