We went camping with most of Scott's family last week and weekend-a 5 day camp trip. Scott found out that we could rent Forest Service cabins for cheap and thought that it would be great to do just that. When we got to the cabin, I was ready to turn around and come back home. On the outside, it was a lot smaller than I had imagined. When we went it, holy cow!! It stunk something fierce, had about a billion flies swarming around and it was filthy. I took one look and told Scott that we were sleeping in the tent. The only thing that kept me there was the fact that the bathroom was clean and working. We had been told just the day before that the shower didn't work, the toilet may not be working and that there was no hot water in the cabin. HELLO! Those were the reasons I agreed to go to begin with. Janae held her nose and screeched when the bugs came near her, which was about every 1/2 second or so. After getting out the rubber gloves, air freshener and Clorox wipes, the place was passable. It was nice to have a bathroom where with a flush toilet and a shower, I have to admit.
Addyson is our little bug lover. Here she is holding a handful of worms that she insisted on carrying around for along time. She didn't put them down until she had squeezed every drop of life out of them and then only when we insisted. The cabin had the creek running almost all the way around it, which meant lots of mosquitoes. The girls had a great time playing in the water "cleaning" their feet. They worn flips flops almost the whole time, imagine what their feet looked like! Before bed at night, we took them in the cabin and gave them the scrub down and then threw them in the shower in the morning.
I always do the cooking when we go as a family, I am a little bit of a control freak. But that way, I know what we are eating and if the girls will eat dinner each night or not. Janae helped me decide on some of the desserts, she chose her favorites. We made an upside down chocolate with raspberry topping cake one night, yummy! The last night, we attempted a cheesecake. It actually turned out pretty good. Janae was a great help with measuring and mixing. Thanks, Coley.
The day before we left, the library had a fairy day where the girls made fairies and/or fairy houses. We went and were able to bring home some of the supplies to make fairies with grandma. Then the girls made fairy houses around the cabin. Janae's is the bowl of water. She thought the fairies might want to take a swim, so she left a swimming pool for them. Addyson made one with plastic knives as supports and a cup of water as a pond in case the fairies didn't want to fly all the way to Janae's pool. They both were a little disappointed when we picked up the knives, cups and bowls when we left. They didn't get that the next people might see it as garbage instead of fairy houses.
One morning, all the boys decided to do some target practice. Never fear, the girls were not about to be left out. Scott had them take turns shooting a pistol, but not before teaching them gun safety. It was a little nerve-racking to watch my 4 and 6 year old shooting a gun, but they seemed to enjoy it.
All in all, it was an okay weekend. It was great to try a cabin, once. I don't think I am in a hurry to rent another one any time soon.
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