The adventure began...

On Friday Jeff got home from work around 10am because he went in to work at midnight to do his normal first of the month stuff. When he got home, we finished gathering up the last of the camping gear and then we headed out. We went to Payson, Houston Mesa Campground. We started to set up all of our gear and got most of it up before the Bronder's arrived. Once they got there, they started to set up their tent and all, but didn't get it done before it started to rain on us. It actually felt pretty good and it cooled us all down a bit. We didn't build a campfire the first night, but we did the second night. The kids kept asking about roasting marshmallows and making smores over and over and over and over and over again. When we finally did, Randy didn't like his marshmallows roasted and I was too lazy to make smores for the boys. Keith was happy with his roasted marshmallows. Saturday morning, I got to take a cold shower, because the water in the bladder didn't have enough time to warm up. Later in the afternoon when Randy wanted to take a shower, the water was so hot that he couldn't use it for showering -- crazy water.
I think we all had a pretty good time, even though Michele was sick Saturday morning.
We had some yummy camping vittles. Polish sausage, potatoes, carrots, salad, steak, more potatoes, peppers, carrots, celery, hot dogs, yummy cake, banana muffins, eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, chippos. Can you tell that food is my favorite part? Michele made popcorn on her camp stove! And she made a pie in her camp cooker, over the campfire.
I didn't take enough pictures, but I did take a few...
there were lots of bugs --tons of different types of beetles. Jeff made friends with one. He even pet it and the thing just stayed there enjoying it. I enjoyed sitting around doing nothing but reading my book, listening to the radio and adding my two cents to the conversations going on around me. I'm ready to go again! Hey, why not? The stuff is already packed up!