Camping!

Despite the fact that it was rainy and foggy for most of the day yesterday, I was tired, Sammy had to go to the potty seventy million times and didn't want to walk the 1/10 of a mile to the bath house, meaning I carried her about seventy million times, we didn't have the right pump for the aerobed and so slept on a partially inflated mattress, the tent was HUGE and a puzzle to set up, we had a grand old time camping! Ryan and I used to camp all the time. We've spent numerous nights out on the trail, tenting out. But car camping is something we're still mastering. Not to mention camping with a child :-) And having a big 6-person tent is way different than setting up a little, light 2-person trail tent. It was like a palace! Crazy.

Still, don't let my list of misadventures fool you. It was a lot of fun! It was also a fair amount of work, no doubt about it, but it was great to get Sam out camping for the first time. And Recompense Campground in Wolfe's Neck was the perfect spot! There was a playground. A nice beach. A gorgeous view. Lots of families and a laid back atmosphere. Nice, clean bathhouses. Animals to see in the fields and on the farm. It was 20 minutes from our house, and is a place that Ryan and I have fond memories of. We used to run flow miles through the campground in college with the cross country team. Who would have thought we'd one day be bringing our child to camp there?! :-)

And since pictures tell a much better story, here it is, our first weekend camping as a family in pictures :-)

Home for the night, Recompence Campground, Wolfe's Neck, Freeport, Maine

Foggy shoreline

Moo!

Evening reading

Being silly at bedtime

Contemplating the ocean

Playing in the sand

Searching for treasures

Quiet waters