Camping is not cancelled!

After a year of letting go of so many social gatherings and events. The provincial health regulations changed just in time for us to go camping with friends and it was so life-giving. The forecast predicted rain for the whole weekend but just bought more tarps and pop up shelters and hoped for the best. The weekend did not disappoint!

We managed to get campsites all beside each other. The kids rode their bicycles all around their campsite with laser guns and glow sticks. Apparently, stirring things up with another group of kids which they referred to as The Sorry Gang.

We signed up for a timeslot and the kids enjoyed the pool while the parents supervised pool side.

We walked around Cultus Lake and some of the boys braved the cold and jumped off the dock.

We savored all the campy things like sitting around the fire, making s'mores and hotdogs and enjoying conversation with friends not on a computer screen.

The most exciting part was probably the troop of brazen raccoons that invaded our campsite. The first night one managed to open up one of our friend's Rubbermaid containers and run off with a bag of marshmallows. We left our griddle out and they left their sizable footprints all over it. 

The second night they walked right into the campsite where we all were and ran off with our cinnamon buns. One of the other dads even set up a trap with Oreo as bait but they managed to grab the Oreos without the box falling on top of them. There were at least three or four of them the second night and they fighting. It was 11:00 pm and we had all gone inside our tent but we weren't asleep yet. The sound of the raccoons fighting right beside our tent sounded so ferocious if I hadn't known they were raccoons, I would have thought it was a wolverine and it would going shred our tent. The kids (and I) screamed and huddled altogether as we listened to the wild commotion. The raccoons weren't even phased when one of the dads starting throwing firewood at the raccoon trying to scare it away. 

So besides the excitement of the raccoon fighting... the rest of the weekend was so restful and rejuvenating.

Good weather. Good friends. Good times. It really is the simple things that fill me up.