I Love Camping!

I just thought that this would be a great oppurtunity to share with you my summer love. Camping! I have been camping ever since I was in the womb. It's that rustic, hillbilly blood in me I guess. There is no summer activity I love more than camping. If you have never gone camping, you are definatlly missing out on something beautiful. There is nothing quite like making your supper over a warm, blazing fire, sitting around roasting marshmellows, waking up and just sitting around the fire pit drinking hot cocoa. As you can tell from that picture, I love S'mores, possibly the best part of camping. They just don't taste right in any other setting.
This picture was taken when I was about 2 years old. We were camping with the Keys family at Jellystone Park. Oh yes, old Jellystone park. That place is awesome! Right when you pull in, they have is humongous basket with Yogi Bear, Booboo, and that other girl bear to welcome you. That's the place I got my green baseball cap. Heh heh... That is my favorite camping site, and I have gone to many. Some of them include, Jellystone Park, Peir-Lon, Moheekin, Cherokee, Marlynn, Salt Fork, and Niagra Falls, along with many many others. Lately, my family has been going to Peir-Lon. That's a really nice place. Last year, we went up (or down...) to Salt Fork with the church group. That was a fun expirience that I look forward to again in September.
Another awesome thing about camping is the bonding time I have with my family. No electronics, media, anything. Just you and your kin and a big ol' campfire. I mean, there is nothing to do except talk and play, and work (such as obsessively sweeping out your camper.) You make many memories while camping. I remember last year at Peir-Lon, Audrey and I went for a bike ride around the grounds. My bike had those foot thingys on the pedals I was having a difficult time. A truck was coming our way and I fell off, and got taggeled up in the pedals. I was all scraped up. I cut my toe REALLY bad and was bawling in the stinky bath rooms while Mom tried to bandage it. I look back and laugh. Another great memory is while camping, I got burnt really, really bad on my face. We got back from camping on Sunday and I went to Camp Patmos the next day! Well, if you've ever been to camp in July, you know good and well how sunny it gets. My face was peeling like old paint. I seriously had two differnt color skin tones on my face. Yes, I must say that was a good expirience too.
I hope that this blog post has encouraged YOU to encourage your FAMILY to pack up the mini van and head out into the wilderness for a weekend of good old fashioned CAMPING. Take it from me, you'll love it.