Kayde, our daughter, did great camping. She did want to run to the edge of the cliff where the river is, multiple times, and almost every time I had to run and catch her and spank her butt I know, mean mommy. She slept through a loud thunder storm. It poured almost the whole night, lots of lightning and loud thunder... I only slept about 2hrs that night, while hubby and kid slept the whole night, lucky me :P It was fun, but the next day waking up before the sun, and then the wind was blowing like crazy, did not make for a happy camper (me), and a hubby sleeping until 11am, kind of made me over the whole trip pretty fast, lol.

Lily and Otto took a dive of the same cliff and had an adventure into the river and along the river edge, until my hubby found a spot where they could climb up high enough so he could grab them and pull them up (Shaed was too smart, of course, to take a dive over the cliff like the 2 block heads).... let's just say that mommy enjoyed some s'mores and fire roasted marshmallows after the kid went to bed and the dogs were settled down and on chains.

Was a fun/good camping trip and we will be going again, hopefully with a bigger tent (ours is a 4 man dome and we were kind of cramped with a pack'n'play and ma and hubby), and will be over my birthday on the 26th of June up in the Turtle Mountains. Can't wait for that, because we haven't been up there in a few years now. And after that, no more long distance camping trips until next summer (don't want to go too far away from the hospital, just in case I were to go into labor, instead of having a scheduled C-sec).

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She did want to run to the edge of the cliff where the river is, multiple times, and almost every time I had to run and catch her and spank her butt -snip- It poured almost the whole night, lots of lightning and loud thunder... I only slept about 2hrs that night -snip- the next day waking up before the sun, and then the wind was blowing like crazy, did not make for a happy camper (me), and a hubby sleeping until 11am, kind of made me over the whole trip pretty fast, lol.

Lily and Otto took a dive of the same cliff and had an adventure into the river and along the river edge, until my hubby found a spot where they could climb up high enough so he could grab them and pull them up

I'm glad all that makes for a fun trip - I'd hate to see what a bad one is like

Reminds me of camping in Vantage, WA one year.

The wind whips through the Columbia Basin so hard, its generally pretty windy. We picked an especially windy night, and before it was over, both my brother and I ended up in my Mom and Stepdad's tent. Spent the rest of the night trying to keep their tent from collapsing in.

In the morning, we found my tent ripped to shreds, and my brother's in a tree.

Then we discovered that they'd closed the dam, so the water level on that stretch of the Columbia was far too low to put the boat in.

More or less bust of a trip, but you know, looking back, it kinda makes me smile.