This weekend we went camping with our neighbors David, Tricia, and their girls. The guys went up Friday night. They drove maybe 10 miles up the I-17 only to find out there had been a bad accident and traffic was at a dead stop for about 2 hours. Our campsite was only 1 1/2 hour away from our home. They left at 5:45pm and arrived at the Stoneman lake campground at 10:30pm with 4 kids, a camper, and a dog.
I had to work Saturday morning for a couple of hours, Tricia and I drove up in the afternoon.
When we arrived the boys had set up a great campground for us. We had an hour or so before a 30 min. torrential downpour occurred. The dust turned into MUD...lots and lots of mud! Thank goodness David and Tricia had a pop up camper for us to take refuge in. The kids played with all their toys and drew pictures, they were perfectly content. We on the other hand, were soaked as we were trying to set up the last tent before the rain came. After a while the rain stopped and we were able to get out and slop around in the mud for a bit. This makes for a very interesting weekend.
The kids made sure they could get as dirty as possible without even trying. They are kids, what do you expect! We had very little rain, just a few sprinkles every now and then throughout the night.
The sun eventually peeked through the clouds and we were able to play some games and build a fire to make our cheeseburgers. Of course you can't end the evening without smores... lots and lots of smores. That is if you can get them from your stick to the graham cracker...and lastly to your mouth without dropping them on the floor. We had many smore camping fouls. Good thing we had plenty to go around.
The kids went to bed somewhat early, they had gone on quite a long hike earlier in the day with the guys. That gave the adults some time to reminisce and have a few drinks by the fire.
Rylan was up most of the night coughing and moving all over the tent. I had a nice night listening to all that and the rain hitting our tent, hoping it was not going to come through. The four of us didn't get up till 930ish when we smelled the breakfast our friends were making. The rest of the morning was pretty much enjoying the day and getting ready to pack things up. Tanner loves the walkie talkies so we let him take the kids on a little adventure hike so we could get things ready to go for the day. They don't get very far before he radio's in. "beebeep...Mom? Rylan has stepped in mud...beebeep...Megan also has stepped in mud." They came back with mud up to their ankles! What a mess. They had fun and that is all that matters.
From Stoneman Lake AZ...until next time....
