We went camping with the Crawfords again at Franklin
Creek. The goal for this trip: no one
ends up in the hospital with something broken!
And we did meet our goal. The
spot we camped in was in the far corner up front and we had not camped there
before, but it ended up being perfect.
We had a large spot, our vehicles acted as gates to keep the kids from
running out of camp. We were by a water
hydrant that made it easy to water the horses and easy to fill water buckets
for squirt gun fights. Weather wise it
was a perfect weekend cooler at night and hot during the day.
While everyone was out riding I would stay back and
straighten up camp or get food ready and one of our kids would stay with
us. One would ride double with Brad and
one would ride Ollie. Generally when
everyone returned the kids would not be where they started. Due to kids falling asleep on the trail
everyone would switch around at some point or another. After I would clean up camp and our RV
whichever kid stayed back with me I would take down to the creek to play.
It is great camping with the Crawfords because they have
very similar parenting styles and rules as we do and everyone just jumps in and
helps with all the kids. It is great to
have such good friends! I had fun
sitting around the campfire them at night once the kids were in bed. Since none of us play guitar Brad had his
iPad by the fire playing lesser known songs that apparently were only ever
listened to by Brad and Erik when they originally were released. They were having a lot of fun listening to
the songs! It was another great weekend
with the Crawfords with the usual tears from the kids when we had to all head
home. Maybe next summer we will all be
brave and head to a different spot to go camping!
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