This weekend was our Annual Vessey-Pectol Campout. We are suckers for punishment, obviously, going two weekends in a row with my very pregnant self. This weekend was between 95°F and 100°F the whole time and so windy at night that I had to wear ear plugs to get some sleep (I think Doug was awake most of the night).
Hanging with the family was fun, but we escaped the bald hillside camping site on Saturday to Vernonia's Hawkins Park where they dam up the creek in the summer for older kids and there is a wading pool for little kids- all in the shade!! It was still hot but a nice relief. We left after a couple hours and Evie promptly fell asleep in the car at which point we had the dilemma of: Do we drive around for an hour or so and let the kids sleep in the air conditioned car? or Do we haphazardly throw all the rest of our camping gear in the back of the van and the heck out of Dodge?!
We opted for choice #2. You've never seen anyone tear down camp so fast! We were back on the road in 10 minutes. A few minutes after that, we were throwing things out of our car into the garage, putting dirty kids into their beds, cranking the window AC's, taking a shower, and plopping into bed ourselves- at 5pm! We slept until 6:30pm, got the kids up, dressed, ate and loaded up in the car again to head back to the campground for family campfire time. There we stayed in the cool of the evening breeze until 11:30pm when we drove the tired kids home again. I told Doug to remind me next time (when the memory of this has faded, as indeed it will considering that I went again after last weekend) that camping trips after 5 or 6 months of pregnancy are OUT!
It was so hot in fact, that we took very few pictures (only at night) because it seemed like too much work to get the camera.
Hanging with the family was fun, but we escaped the bald hillside camping site on Saturday to Vernonia's Hawkins Park where they dam up the creek in the summer for older kids and there is a wading pool for little kids- all in the shade!! It was still hot but a nice relief. We left after a couple hours and Evie promptly fell asleep in the car at which point we had the dilemma of: Do we drive around for an hour or so and let the kids sleep in the air conditioned car? or Do we haphazardly throw all the rest of our camping gear in the back of the van and the heck out of Dodge?!
We opted for choice #2. You've never seen anyone tear down camp so fast! We were back on the road in 10 minutes. A few minutes after that, we were throwing things out of our car into the garage, putting dirty kids into their beds, cranking the window AC's, taking a shower, and plopping into bed ourselves- at 5pm! We slept until 6:30pm, got the kids up, dressed, ate and loaded up in the car again to head back to the campground for family campfire time. There we stayed in the cool of the evening breeze until 11:30pm when we drove the tired kids home again. I told Doug to remind me next time (when the memory of this has faded, as indeed it will considering that I went again after last weekend) that camping trips after 5 or 6 months of pregnancy are OUT!
It was so hot in fact, that we took very few pictures (only at night) because it seemed like too much work to get the camera.
