A Camping Trip

(not actually from camping, but kind of outdoorsie...from the "hike" that was really a trail in the middle of major highways and train tracks...oh, they're eating grass)

We went camping! We have said over and over that we want to go camping, so we finally did it! We went the Friday after I had my appendix out! We went to Lums Pond. It's a nice, kind of infested, beautiful pond. We went with a few different friends from the area and had a good ol' time!

We had s'mores, and that is all I really cared about. Unfortunately Alyssa not a pro-sleeper when it comes to being away from home. I think I fell asleep before her...sometime after midnight and then we all got up bright and early the next morning! Luckily and blessedly she took a four-hour-nap the next day! :) Happy Mama!

rock throwing

ker-plunk!

Alyssa found pine cones and her friends found sticks and rocks and all sorts of fun, dirty things! We threw rocks into the pond and went on a mini hike observing frogs, toads, really long earth worms, and all sorts of other nature-y type things.

so happy together!

Here's the thing with hiking around Lum's pond. The scenery never really changes. When you hike a mountain you go through so many different elevation phase changes. But around a flat pond, everything is pretty much the same as it was before. That's the bummer about no mountains. But don't worry, the mountains are just around the corner! [My coping method for no mountains.] I just can't ever seem to get around the corner to see them.