Camping trip

This past weekend, we went camping at Lake Somerville. It's a lake at a state park about 45 minutes from our home. We had never been camping as a family before, so we weren't sure how it was going to go. We were especially worried about how Lily was going to do. She did great! Natalie has never slept all night in a tent before either. She has always chickened out in the past because she was scared. She did great too! Coult even taught her how to build a campfire. We got to see some raccoons while we were in our tent Friday night trying to go to sleep. One of them even unzipped our empty tent bag which I had left out on the picnic table! The girls were really excited to see the raccoons. Just our luck, we ended up being the only campers who weren't Boy Scouts in our whole camping area. Which meant that we were serenaded by "revielle" early Sat. morning. Actually, Lily and I were the only ones still asleep at 6 am because Natalie and Coult were already up trying to start our morning camp fire. Coult got up super early because he woke to something pulling on one of our tent poles at about 5 am. It turned out to be a 30-40 lb raccoon trying to get to the bags of food in our tent! Then, after the raccoon ran away, a skunk walked right across his feet while he was sitting in his chair! He was so scared that it was going to spray him! Coult and the girls went fishing for awhile, but didn't catch anything. It was fun for them anyway. We also waded along the lake shore for a while before we left. We had so much fun! I'm not much of a camper, but since it went so well, I wouldn't mind going again. Here are some pics from our camping trip: