Boys Camping Weekend

Last weekend, Jason and I took ours boys camping to Allouette Lake. On Friday afternoon we picked up Aidan and Michael at their house and made our way to the ferry and off to find a campsite. After Labour Day campgrounds don't take reservations, so with it being a sunny weekend I thought claiming a decent campsite would be a good idea. Jason had to work till 4, so I had all 4 boys in the car for a while. Listening to 3 and 5 year old humour for a couple hours is enough to make you go crazy, but this is afterall only the beginning of an all boys weekend.

When we got to the campground there was a decent amount of choice and finally settled on D-5. It was a bit of a maze to find our campsite, so I told the boys to remember D-5. Then we went back to pick up Jason at the ferry with chants of 'D-5, D-5, D-5!'

When we got back to camp, we set up the tent trailer and got dinner going. Supper wasn't till after 7 and I think they were happy to finally have dinner together.

Despite someone's car alarm that went off at 3 in the morning in the campgroup, we all slept pretty well on our first night and Jason and I thinking we were doing pretty well without any women around. I did forget my pillow, but made one out of a blanket. My boys were awake at 7am while the others continued to sleep a bit more, so we headed for a walk to the lake where it was nice and peaceful.

Jason made an awesome pancake and bacon breakfast that, we hardly knew we were away from home:-)

After breakfast we all headed to the beach. The water was a little chilly, but the boys didn't mind and Jason went for a swim as well.

In the afternoon we went for a walk and a geocache(how could we not?) The boys liked playing along the river, walking on the rocks and throwing rocks in the stream. I was sure one of them was going to bail at some point, but they all did pretty well, except Kyle who wasn't walking much around the rocks.

Here is Aaron hanging out at the beach.

And Aidan deciding to douse himself with water with his clothes on.

Later on the kids were hanging around a pretend fire, probably waiting for dinner.

Dinner included roasting wieners and making smores, although Kyle would only eat a plain marshmallow and Aaron preffered raw smores better.

I saw these mushrooms as we were walking, so Jason took this picture of them.

This was sunset on Saturday...

And this was sunrise on Sunday

In the campground there was a playground which the kids also enjoyed a lot.

After that, we went for a last time at the beach.

Sunday was warmer than Saturday, so going in the lake was very refreshing.

For some reason Aidan didn't want to be in a picture, so they all made angry faces.

We had our final lunch at the campsite and then packed up the tent trailer to make our way. As I tried to start the car. the battery was dead. Seems one of the kids turned on a light in the back of the car the day before and drained the battery overnight. Luckily someone was around to help us get started.

On our way back home we stopped at Maple Ridge park which had a playground...

and a water park.

It was a nice stop for them on a warm day.

I also got some funny videos of our camping trip, which I may try to post sometime.

Overall the weekend went well. 'Farting' and 'bums' seems to be a common topic among the boys. At times it seemed like they were the best of friends only to be a few minutes later the worst of enemies, only to be forgotten when the dads provided a diversion. Bringing only 3 Tonka toys for 4 boys was a mistake on my part(I thought I had packed 4). I am sure you could imagine the grief from the one boy who had to take a turn being left out.

Our wives did help us a pack,which was very helpful(thanks), but I thought Jason and I pulled off the weekend fairly well and made for some good memories.