Well, we kept pretty this weekend again. Friday evening we held a BBQ at our house for Steph’s work…we had around 15 people over for a potluck – we supplied the burgers, hot dogs, and refreshments. But the big story for the weekend was our one night of camping at Millersylvania State Park – about 10 minutes south of Olympia.
First, Millersylvania is a beautiful park and campground situated amoung a primarily Douglas Fir forest and bordering on Deep Lake (don’t think it’s very deep). We had two adjoining campsights (the other site being used by the Alessi’s). We packed up the van on Saturday morning and left home at 12:30…We were checked in just before 2pm.
The only painful part of this trip was the amount of stuff you need to bring camping when it involves 2 kids. So we had our huge Kelty Green River 6 tent, the queen size air mattress, a single air mattress, and the pack-n-play. We had enough room in our test for another queen size mattress!
We took a walk to Deep Lake where the boys ran around the little beach touching the water. Zach did fall in – about 3 inches of water. He got soaked and I think a little scared from his mishap so we had to hurry back to camp and get him changed. The night was cool (Olympia got down to 37 which tied a record for this date), but the boys slept well. Mom didn’t sleep since dad kept snoring (he was drunk). The morning for dad was rough with his hangover. But the boys jumped right into their playing routine. We packed up camp and left at around 11:30am (home by 12:30)…then the unpacking started. 2 to 3 hours later everything we put back and things were cleaned up.
Lots of work for such a short trip…but we had a good time.
Palace de Arthur
Minutes before Zach fell in.
Looking out over Deep Lake.
Canoeist on Deep Lake.
Looking up from our campsite.
Random picture of Nate about a week ago…funny laugh.
And for the movie…This covers Memorial Day weekend with Jan and Mike, setting up the tent in our yard, camping, and post camping fun with the kids – It’s a long one.