Part two of our "First Family Camping Trip"
Part one is posted on "My Picture of the Day Blog".

On Sunday we woke up and moved our tent about 20 feet over and unpacked the rest of our gear. Then we went off to get some firewood from the "exchange" and to scout around for a nice place to fish. When we got back to camp we ate lunch and sprayed on bug spray and sunscreen and headed out to fish. I had the camera with us but I never took any pictures of all four of us and the dogs in the canoe. I guess I didn't want to rock the boat! We had a good time, and no one fell in the pond and we didn't sink the canoe.

Oh and did I mention I caught the biggest fish!

Rowdy he's a good ol camping dog!

Paige and Rowdy hanging out in the tent after 4 hours in the canoe they were worn out.

Megan was keeping Mike company while he cleaned the fish. She also helped prepare dinner. She husked the corn and sprayed it with butter spray and wrapped it in foil.

We REALLY need a camp stove if we are going to do this more often. I made sloppy Joes in my cast iron skillet on the wire rack from our old microwave. It was hard to control the heat...I had to keep taking the pan off the fire and everything had a smoky taste.

Paige enjoying a Buckeye s'more. We replaced the traditional Hershey bar with a chocolate-peanut butter Buckeye candy.


Mike attempting to pop the jiffy pop.

Mike was in charge of cooking the bacon and Paige was the plate holder.

The dogs were in charge of begging, and they do it quite well.

Mmmmm bacon!

Megan in her "Camp Skeeter" t-shirt "circa 1st grade" but it still fits her and makes a good sleep shirt.

Guess how many times I said "Zip up the tent all the way or you will be sleeping with skeeters!"? I said it about the same # of times as there were mosquito's in our tent (a lot).

A few more straps and ropes to tie and we are ready to roll on home.


Rowdy was ready to go back to the comforts of home (his bean bag). Both of the dogs did really well. It was Rebel's first time in the canoe and we were out in it for 4 hours. Both dogs laid down and did a lot of snoring while we were fishing.

The view of our packed up camping trip from the front seat of the mini van. The dogs had the best seats as always. We put their dog beds between the kids seats and they (the dogs) slept all the way home.


I snapped this picture of Rebel on Monday evening. The kids helped take the gear in and piled it up in our entry. Rebel sacked out on the dog bed, I think he was happy to be back home.