Camping

We spent the weekend in Leavenworth (Barvaria) camping in our new trailer. We stayed at a KOA which was interesting. When we arrived we were thinking what did we get ourselves into because there were kids, craziness, and people everywhere. I guess our camping style is usually out in the wilderness quiet and peaceful. But we adjusted to the craziness and really enjoyed ourselves. It was a bit of a challenge to have two kids, two adults and a dog in the trailer we weren't totally familiar with yet but we managed. We thought the screen door on the trailer was more durable but Ben proved us incorrect when he managed to force the door open fell out, did a flip and landed on his back. I thought he died but he was fine not a scratch. Also there is a pop up counter in the trailer that I didn't realize had to be secured underneath before use so a huge spilled cup of coffee later we got the kinks of the trailer figured out. I called the weekend "controlled kaos" which really could be our overall parenting style too. Ben woke up both mornings at 5:30am on the dot, which sucks in the trailer because you can't keep him quiet and there's not anywhere for him to really play. I don't remember Abi waking up so early, she is our good sleeping child. Abi barely wanted to get out of bed at 8am. I would call KOA camping "supervised family camping" because almost everyone had kids and in the evening every two minutes a golf cart would go by making sure everyone was behaving. We met some really nice people and shared our camp fire with a nice couple next door.

 Abi loved the pool! She actually swam for the first time (with her life jacket) all by herself across the pool and back. A huge milestone for us! Ben and I enjoyed the pool as well, Ben fell asleep while I was holding him in the pool, silly boy. There was also a large park with swings and slides that Abi really liked.

 The river was beautiful, and freezing cold. The KOA had tubes you could use to float the river then they pick you up and drive you back-if the kids were older that would of been fun.

 It was so hot out (mid 90's) Brad and I had to take a dip in the river.

 Ben slept the whole time we were at the river.

 Yes, that is Ben sleeping in the wagon.

 Cute little Ben bean. We've been calling Ben "bean" lately or "green bean" or "beaner"-which is a term we found not always appropriate to use in public.

Ben's sweet bed head.

We had a super fun weekend (but exhausting). No traffic either direction and we got home early (11am) on Sunday so we got yardwork and laundry done and went for a swim at the McCollum park pool right by our house. The pool there is so fun, it was really warm and they have a water slide and diving board.