Mohican Camping Trip

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day Weekend.   I always wonder why the day is celebrated on a Monday every year. I think if it were celebrated like July 4th, people would be more apt to actually sit back and think of what the Holiday is really there for.  That being said, here's our weekend, that was probably not what the Holiday was made for.

We went camping this weekend at Mohican Wilderness.  One of the best campgrounds for families.  We had a ton of fun, and met a lot of new friends (through Ares' classmate Eve).  I felt like I was on vacation.  It was really, really nice, although REALLY REALLY COLD at night.  Like, in a tent, the first night was literally 34* out, the second night was in the low 40's, much better. 

I slept like crap the first night, I was SO SO SO worried about Ares being cold.  We put him in bed after he fell asleep in my lap while sitting around the fire.  It was late late late, so we dressed him warm, tucked him into two sleeping bags, and prayed he'd stay warm.  He didn't move the entire night.

Ares and Eve got along superbly. In fact, they were kind of inseparable.   I probably took 40 pictures of the two of them together.  They acted like an old married couple.  She bossed him around, he took it with a smile and a small grumble here and there, but no arguments at all.

Here they were swinging in the hammock.  She went to Jupiter, he, to Mars. 
They decided on different planets because they couldn't agree on what the aliens looked like. Hers looked like trees that ate meat, his looked like Zombies that ate plants. 

Chilling out after the ice cream truck came by.

She finished her ice cream first, and insisted on him sharing his ice cream on an
every-other-bite-basis.  He was such a good sport about it.  It really made me proud.
I probably wouldn't have been so nice.

There were two other four year olds there (all born within a couple of months of each other) and there wasn't a single fight the entire weekend.  It was amazing, and it helped make the weekend so enjoyable.  They ran around like crazy, which scared us when we had a fire going, but was great every other time.  I can't believe Jamie managed to get a picture of them all together.  Carter was taking a nap, so he missed the single photo session.

Billy (4), Addison (2), Ares (4), Veronica (2), Eve (4), James (4)
Not pictured: Carter (2)

We had a lot of family time too.  Sunday morning, Adam ran while Ares and I played story time.  I start a story and leave blanks for him to fill in.  We did this for over 15 minutes and had a great time.  He even wanted to play the game the next day too.  After that, I forced him to take a shower with daddy.  Big. Mistake.  The kid was exhausted and we should have just put him down for a nap.  He cried and whined for about an hour, Adam said that people in the showers probably thought that he was being molested he cried for the ENTIRE shower. We took him back to the tent and he slept for A LONG time. 

Dinner was especially good that day too.  Adam cooked corn on the cob (which he had soaked in salt water for two days) and steak/mushrooms.  YUM!  Ares had two pieces of corn (anyone surprised?) and a good amount of steak before he had his ice cream. 


An odd way of eating corn, but he finishes it all.

Everyone enjoyed the new marshmallow roasting sticks (especially the kids, who were actually allowed to roast their own, since the stick was so long).  The first night Ares fell asleep on my lap, it was wonderful, the second night, he begged me to take him back to the tent so he can go to sleep.  I did, and after asking him 3 or 4 times if he was warm (Mom! I'm fine, why do you keep asking me that?!) we slept great.  Adam stayed back with everyone else that evening to drink and tell stories. I think he really enjoyed himself.


Some bonding time.

 Before we left on the last day (Monday) we took a walk across the suspension bridge.  It was coldish and rainy outside. 

I have to say, it was a pretty amazing weekend.  Granted, I am nearly 9 months pregnant, but aside from a first night of uncomfortable-ness and not drinking, I felt like I was on vacation (oh, and a few leg cramps at night, eeeks).  Would we go again?  Absolutely!! Hopefully we're invited again!