(Warning: Long post and lots of pictures)
We had a great, HOT weekend camping in Columbia at Marbel Quarry with our camping buddies. Things started out great, we stopped and had dinner in Tracy, we arrived at the campsite before dark, the kids were happily hanging out while the dads figured things out.
The new truck did great pulling the trailer
Daryl is deep in thought about the best way to set up camp and getting the perfect positioning of the trailers, we usually try and turn the trailers door to door, but due to the positioning of several large rocks, it wasn't happening this time.
Then it was time for the tents to be popped up ~ and that is where the trouble began!
Something made a really loud, bad sound as Scott was trying to crank up his trailer
It ended up not being repairable on Friday night, they did figure out that one of the cables on the lift pulley system broke, but since it was dark they did not even attempt to try and fix it.
Since trying to get 7 people in our "sleeps 4 comfortably" trailer, the dads built a make shift tent over the top of Scott's truck for Trev & Cole to sleep in, unfortunately it came down before I got to get a picture of it Saturday morning. We thought that they would love sleeping outside, but they said it wasn't very comfortable. Since when did 12 year old boys worry about being comfortable?
So that left 5 of us to sleep in our little trailer, which was cozy for Scott & Steph! But it worked and was better than any other option we could figure out!
After unsuccessfully trying to get someone to look at and hopefully fix the trailer on Saturday morning, Scott and Daryl headed to the hardware store for some supplies, and after a few hours of looking at them like this
we were very happy to see this!
While the boys were trying to fix the trailer, the girls and kids spent most of the morning hanging out in our trailer with the air conditioner on high.
Sunday was Cole's 13th birthday, Trevor talked us into letting Cole open his present on Saturday, so that they "would have something to do"!
and Meghan fixed us some snacks!
whew, if they couldn't get the trailer fixed we were going to pack up and head home. So glad we didn't because we had a great weekend after all of that was taken care of.
Daryl, Scott and the boys headed up to the basketball camp where Kaitlyn was so Meghan, Steph and I headed on the dirt trail to the little city of Columbia, we took Rio with us for protection!
You can only imagine how excited Meghan was to see this on the main street as we were walking into town.
She was sooooo happy when I said we would take a ride
Did I mention that it was probably 105 degrees? I thought for a minute that I was Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie!
and who would have thought that there would have even been a hold-up?
It was pretty funny, the horses stopped and out of nowhere came this "bandit" asking the driver for gold. Meghan looked at me with a very serious look and said "he isn't going to shoot us, is he?" I assured her that he would not shoot us. But the closer that he got to us the farther and farther back she was trying to sink into her seat. Then he asked her if she had any gold or silver, she said she had nothing, just like the other passengers had said. Then he said that her earrings were very pretty, but we told him that since they were pink butterflies we didn't think he would really want them! It was pretty funny.
After all of that excitement, we decided that an ice cream was needed to cool us down a bit. And to make it even cooler, she added ice cubes from Steph's drink to her ice cream cone!
After cooling down a bit we headed back to camp for dinner and a quick swim before dark.
The boys had canon ball contests
Meghan has turned into quite the little fish this summer, and she has no fear at all, at least she wears her life jacket without any hassles at all.
Something made a really loud, bad sound as Scott was trying to crank up his trailer
It ended up not being repairable on Friday night, they did figure out that one of the cables on the lift pulley system broke, but since it was dark they did not even attempt to try and fix it.Since trying to get 7 people in our "sleeps 4 comfortably" trailer, the dads built a make shift tent over the top of Scott's truck for Trev & Cole to sleep in, unfortunately it came down before I got to get a picture of it Saturday morning. We thought that they would love sleeping outside, but they said it wasn't very comfortable. Since when did 12 year old boys worry about being comfortable?
So that left 5 of us to sleep in our little trailer, which was cozy for Scott & Steph! But it worked and was better than any other option we could figure out!
After unsuccessfully trying to get someone to look at and hopefully fix the trailer on Saturday morning, Scott and Daryl headed to the hardware store for some supplies, and after a few hours of looking at them like this
we were very happy to see this!
While the boys were trying to fix the trailer, the girls and kids spent most of the morning hanging out in our trailer with the air conditioner on high.
Sunday was Cole's 13th birthday, Trevor talked us into letting Cole open his present on Saturday, so that they "would have something to do"!
and Meghan fixed us some snacks!
whew, if they couldn't get the trailer fixed we were going to pack up and head home. So glad we didn't because we had a great weekend after all of that was taken care of.Daryl, Scott and the boys headed up to the basketball camp where Kaitlyn was so Meghan, Steph and I headed on the dirt trail to the little city of Columbia, we took Rio with us for protection!
You can only imagine how excited Meghan was to see this on the main street as we were walking into town.
She was sooooo happy when I said we would take a ride
Did I mention that it was probably 105 degrees? I thought for a minute that I was Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie!
and who would have thought that there would have even been a hold-up?
It was pretty funny, the horses stopped and out of nowhere came this "bandit" asking the driver for gold. Meghan looked at me with a very serious look and said "he isn't going to shoot us, is he?" I assured her that he would not shoot us. But the closer that he got to us the farther and farther back she was trying to sink into her seat. Then he asked her if she had any gold or silver, she said she had nothing, just like the other passengers had said. Then he said that her earrings were very pretty, but we told him that since they were pink butterflies we didn't think he would really want them! It was pretty funny.
After all of that excitement, we decided that an ice cream was needed to cool us down a bit. And to make it even cooler, she added ice cubes from Steph's drink to her ice cream cone!
After cooling down a bit we headed back to camp for dinner and a quick swim before dark.
The boys had canon ball contests
Meghan has turned into quite the little fish this summer, and she has no fear at all, at least she wears her life jacket without any hassles at all.
Looks like fun! When are you gonna come camp our way?
ReplyDeleteYeah??? You would LOVE the area where Zac and Gina are. So beautiful. Honest, it's so beautiful I bet the campgrounds are even carpeted! and I know they are airconditioned at night!!
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