Car Camping

We finally did it.  We went, as Travis calls it, Car Camping.  Some friends of ours decided it would be great fun to have a multifamily camp out.  Now this was not your typical camp-out.

not a great picture but it's hard
to take a pic of a moving little boy at
wearing a head lamp!

There were about 15 families that came, it was in the back yard of Travis' Boss's family home (not where he lives but where he grew up) in the big town of Arvonia, VA.  This location meant that we had the benefit of having indoor plumbing, which is a big plus for me!  Because Travis is such a big Back Packer he never really considered it camping unless you had walked, a really long way, to your campsite.  Now that we have Landon I think that maybe he has changed his mind, a little bit, in certain circumstances. We started planning for this outing by making a trip to REI for suitable car camping items.  After much research, by Travis, we found the perfect items: tent, mattress pad, head lamp for Landon, and lantern.  Now we were ready!


The outing started with an inflatable bouncy.  Yea I know, that's a little odd for a campout but this outing was set up for families for little kids and it was great fun.  Landon jumped, ran, and flopped for hours.  I think Travis was more worn out by night fall than Landon was from jumping, running, and flopping with him!

Once it started getting dark it was time to watch a movie.  They had a huge blow up movie screen so we gathered around with camp chairs and blankets and watched 'Rio".  Watching a movie was a great idea because how do you keep up with  several young children in the dark?  The movie was a big hit and by the end Landon was barely awake and ready for bed.

Landon sleeping in the tent
 with "blankie" on his head.

Sleeping in the tent was a great adventue within its self.  Landon thought it was so fun to crawl into the tent with mom and dad and sleep, in the middle of course!

I wish that I had taken more pictures but we were having just to much fun to stop and grab the camera.