Reep Family: Our First Camping Trip

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Our First Camping Trip

We got to go on our first camping trip this weekend. It was quite the adventure. Charlie had been camping before but it had been a long time. The kids and I had never been camping before so it was the first time for us. We were able to go with Matt, Holly, Wil, Bonnie, Kali, and Liam. We went to Grayson Highland State Park in Virginia. The plan was for us to tent camp until we looked at the weather forecast. They were calling for snow on Thursday night the first night we were suppose to be up there. The lows were going to be in the 20's and highs in the upper 30's and low 40's. Since that was the weather forecast Matt's brother Jason graciously let us use their pop up camper. We were not able to get the heat to work the first night so all four of us slept in the same bed in order to stay warm. Holly and Matt were on the other end of the camper and they froze that night. When we woke up the next morning there were 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. It was wild! We quickly found out that CJ did not like to be cold and that he was not the greatest at walking in several layers of clothes. On Friday it warmed up a little bit and we were able to go play on the swing set. The kids really liked that. Charlie and Matt with the help of some others figured out how to get our heat to work so Friday night was a much better night for us. On Saturday morning we got up and took a hike to see the wild ponies. CJ slept most of the walk up but both kids really seemed to enjoy the hike. That afternoon we were able to go and do the Virginia Creeper bike trail. We had a blast and so did the kids. We loved just looking around. The kids also carved some pumpkins and we put those out at our camp site. They enjoyed that. We drank lots of hot chocolate and apple cider and ate lots of smores and roasted marshmallows. Wil, Matt, and Charlie were our cooks for the weekend and they did a fabulous job! Over all it was a great weekend!