This weekend we went camping. We stayed at a great campground in Asheboro called Banjo Creek. The weather was cold and rainy all weekend. We visited the Museum of Harley Davidson Motorcycles, NC Aviation Museum, and the NC Zoo.
As the title of this post states this was my first time camping. The boys tent camp with the Cub scouts, but I have never been. I really did enjoy it even though the weather was so nasty. As you can see in the photo above our camp site was pretty private. We were only about 100 feet from the bath house, and that was really nice on my nightly 3 A.M. trips to the restroom! We did have a few problems with the camper. We did not have enough water hose to reach all the way, so we had to go to Wally World and get a longer hose. So we had no water in the camper until Saturday evening. Then Sunday when we got ready to leave we had a stabilizer to drop back down and it plowed up a strip in the camp site. NOTE to SELF: remember to add small shovel to camper tool box!
The cooking was sort of fun, our gas stove top operated inside or out side. I choose to cook outside since the boys refused to do anything but stay in the warmth of the camper when we were at the camp ground. K and I cooked supper Saturday night and breakfast Sunday morning. For supper Saturday night we had hot dogs, baked beans, and corn on the cob. Then for breakfast we had, eggs and sausage. NOTE TO SELF: no more scrambled eggs on camping trip, too hard to clean up a skillet. Hopefully on our next trip there will not be a state wide burning ban so we can do some cooking over the campfire. Talk about water conservation, I only filled up a 5 gallon bucket of waste water doing both of those meals, and that included washing dishes and brushing teeth at bedtime on Saturday night.
When we went to the zoo we got to see the polar bear. In November when we went he was not in his exhibit. The boys were really happy to get to see him. On Saturday he was taking a rest, he then finally sat up and played with his ball. That was really cute to watch. Sunday when we went back he was taking a mud bath, that was sort of messy! He rolled around on his left side for a while then turned over on his right side and muddied that too.
So on Sunday after our second visit to the zoo we headed home. We had to set up the camper in the basement to dry out, since the weather forecast is for rain every day this week. I unpacked the wet clothes and the fridge, had a nice long HOT bath and then sat by the fireplace in my rocking chair for the rest of the evening. Camping is hard work, and people do this for relaxation? Go figure!
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Sounds fun to me - of course in our group [about 5 families] the MEN do most of the cooking when we camp. I'm not kidding! WE do the clean-up - so a tip here - boil water and soap in the cooking pans before scouring - makes it a little easier.Another idea - when we got our first camper I bought one of those little [hardback] blank journals and I write a little something each trip we take [date - place - fellow campers - a fun thing we did.] Occasionally I've put a photo in, but it's mostly journaling - over 20 years of it now! When the boys were younger we'd camp at least once / month from spring to fall. Lots of good times!
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