Epic Camping Post, Part 1

We discovered last Friday that you should actually be prepared when you go camping.  I was in the kitchen putting together our tin foil dinners, and we were pretty much all packed up, when Brett told me that all the campgrounds around here were full.  What?  So we had to wing it and find a campground on our own.  Luckily we found a good one not too far from where we had originally wanted to go.

When we got there however, we found that once again, we weren't prepared.  It cost $10 to stay the night at this place.  No cards.  No checks.  And we had $9.21 in cash.  We also couldn't find a pen to fill out the envelope with.  So we improvised.

We sincerely hope that the state of Oregon won't begrudge us that 79 cents.  We went ahead and set up camp anyway.  Brett, of course, being the master camper, did most of the setting up.

While he was doing that, I got to hold this cute little guy.

We also had to sit in our trunk because we don't actually own any camping chairs, and there were ants everywhere near the fire.  It worked out alright though.  We just know to be more prepared for next time.

Before we had dinner, Kennedy got hold of a bag of nacho cheese Doritos that we had brought with us and made complete mincemeat out of it.  And her clothes.  And her face.

She loved every minute of camping.  She really loved watching Brett build the fire, and he really showed off his boy scout skills!  He built the fire and it went out until it was only smoke.  So he started blowing on it.  I thought, seriously?  But here were the results.  Before:

And after:

Wow.  And next time I will show you what delicious foods we made on that awesome fire.  And the recipes will be forthcoming on my recipe blog as well.