Campin' 2022

 We went camping last week. There's a cool campground in Kernville called Rivernook. It's right along the Kern River. We went last year in May and liked it. Dan called a couple of months ago to see if they had anything available on the river and they happened to have a cancelation that same day. So we took it. It was only 3 hours away so we brought two cars again and slept in two tents. Dan and I had our own. It was pretty lovely. And hot. But it rained all day one of the days so we weren't hot that day. 

They make you camp a minimum of 4 nights in the summer so that we did. It's not what you call roughing it with lots of restaurants within 1/4 mile of the campground and showers and bathrooms a few feet away. But I'm down with halfway roughing it. 

We ran into one of Dan's firefighter buddies who happened to be camping at the same time. Small world. It was fun catching up.

Winter built a baby fire and was very proud of it.

Lots of fishing. We even caught a few and ate them for dinner.

We tied some floaties together with a rope and tied it to a tree so we could lounge in the river.

Winter's living her best life eating cereal in a floatie.

Angus is always so sweet and Addie is always so fiesty.

Not sure when they snuck these pics but I found them when we got home.

Addie made a friend.

Card games...

One can never have a moment alone in a tent.

We wanted to get out of the sun one day so we headed to a nearby bowling alley. It was so fun. We're going to do that again soon. Dan, Mya, and I shared a lane with no bumpers, and Winter and the littles were happy to use bumper assistance. Dan is literally good at everything and earned the best score by 50 points. But I was happy to beat Mya at least =)

Back to beauty

Dan found this powder that you throw on the fire and it turns colors. Pretty cool. He didn't get to enjoy it unfortunately because he's color blind, especially when it comes to lights. But he was happy that the kids loved it.

It was a nice trip. We saw 3 dear, 2 skunks, 10 frogs, many ducks, lots of fish, a few roaches, and hundreds of red aunts. Dan may have been attacked and bitten several times. But that's the great outdoors for you. The kids complained minimally and I really enjoyed myself. I'm a big fan of camping. Especially now that I'm a mom with a pile of laundry that seems as though it's reproducing every day. When you camp, you just sit around and make the occasional bathroom trip with a kid 5 minutes after you return from the bathroom after asking if anyone else needed to go.

Well, that's it for now!

Happy Wednesday night!