Camping Trip

Been quiet here over the weekend as we went camping!  We had a wonderful time, and it is def something we will be doing again.  We left early Friday morning and headed out, Anouke fell asleep in the car which helped, but we still stopped at about halfway for a leg stretch and some breakfast as Ianto had been so eager to get going that he refused to eat breakfast!
We arrived at the campsite fairly early and set up the tent then wandered up to the lake for a look.  After trying to go for a boat ride and Anouke being terrified and Ianto falling in we decided that the boat would have to wait until our friends arrived and could look after Anouke for us, so we headed to the playground and then up to the shop for ice cream.  The camp ground also has a caravan site and cabins where our friends were staying, as well as various activities spread around - trampolines, flying foxes, mini golf, tennis, swings, a deer park...  Lots to do!

Our friends arrived and all merry  hell broke lose!  Small people running every where, screaming and yelling.  The trampoline took the edge off enough for us to watch the deer being fed without scaring them off, and then headed back to one of the cabins for a BBQ dinner.  Eventually it was all too much for most of the smalls and I took Ianto and Anouke back down to the camp area.  While I was trying to light the camp fire Ianto headed off to make friends with the neighbours!   There were 2 other small boys camping nearby and they all ran around for ages.  I met another single mama out of it and we chatted until it started to get dark and Anouke was getting really tired.  The campfire was not the scary thing I had anticipated - Ianto I knew would be fine, but I worried about Anouke, for no reason it turned out!  She liked looking at it and was fascinated, but didn;t try to touch or anything.  So we toasted marshmallows and read stories until it gor really dark (I love our long twilights!) and crawled into the tent to find a deflated air bed...  Never mind, we slept on top of that and a doona with another doona on top and were asleep in minutes.

I'll have to come back to share the rest as the small people have woken up which is my cue to start breakfast!