Memorial Day Camping Trip....

For Eli's first camping trip we decided to not venture to the Shenandoah Valley, but rather just down the road to Pohick Bay.  We played in the water park and then set up the tent.  For dinner we roasted hot dogs and cooked beans over the fire.  After playing at the playground we devoured some s'mores and then got showers and ready for bed.  Little did we know that a storm was brewing... literally.  So, our camping trip involved putting kids to bed and then getting them up about 10:00 pm.  With fears of 40- 50 mph  winds we weren't willing to risk our 3 kiddos in a tent.  If it was just us, we would have hunkered down and road it out.  So, other than sleeping in the tent and waking up to a pancake breakfast, we got to experience all of our camping adventure that we had planned.  But, that's okay, we forgot our pillows at home anyways and I didn't have a bowl to mix my pancake batter  in either!  whoops!