Camping!!...Well, Kinda

The Friday after Wicked, June 25th, most of Darren's siblings and their families headed up to Calaveras Big Trees State Park to camp. I had never been up there and was SO excited to spend some quality time outside and camp. Darren's parents had been planning this trip for a while too, so it was quite the bummer when just two days before the scheduled trip we found out we needed to fly to Virginia on Saturday to help my dad out of a jam (more on that to come).

Anyway, Darren had a job interview, so we couldn't head up with most everyone else on Friday morning. He got back about 1:30 so we headed up soon after that. We got to the campsite and met up with everyone else about 4 I think. We hung out for a bit and then decided to head off to walk the trail and see the old sequoias. It was a long walk, but I loved it. We stopped at almost every marker on the first half and took photos. I couldn't believe how huge the trees are/were.

After we finally found our way back to the car we headed back to the campsite for some memorable tin-foil dinners. My hamburger was pretty much as hard and dark as a hockey puck, but the potatoes and beans were pretty good. And of course, the s'mores. It wouldn't be camping without s'mores. We played a game of Acquire when the kids went down for bed, but had to leave soon after so we wouldn't have to make such a trek to the airport Saturday morning.

We had a great time, but wish we could've stayed the night with everyone else. We'll just have to make plans to go camping before the summer is over!