Last weekend we were invited to a birthday camping adventure with some of our friends. It was Savannah's 2nd birthday and we had a lot of fun celebrating. The campgrounds were really nice despite the poison ivy everywhere. We camped with six other families including our hosts, The Watnes. Everything was nice and casual with a hot dog potluck Friday night, way too many desserts and dutch oven pizza Saturday. Oh and above we are eating donuts like true campers. I asked Steve what he wanted for Saturday breakfast and he said why not just keep it simple and get donuts. Fine by me.
The first night Henry refused to go to bed until almost midnight! So he hung out with us by the campfire playing Mafia and chatting. Luckily the next night he fell right to sleep.
Near the campsite was a small playground and stream. Henry loved throwing rocks in the water and playing on the toys. Steve and I raced small boats made out of bottle caps, twigs and whatever we could find that would float. Steve always managed to win. His winning boat was a pink hair tie wrapped around a sprite cap It reminded me of fun summers racing boats with my brothers in the small creek behind our house.
Here we are in Helen, a small bavarian tourist town in north Georgia. It is pretty much one street lined with tshirt stores and candy shops. We drove through it to get to our campgrounds and came back the next day to check it out before tubing the hootch.
He is such a ham. And he looks so BIG in this picture.
After checking out the Helen scene we headed over to get our tubes to float the Chattahoochee. While we waited to get in the water, Henry had a blast jumping on the hot pink tubes with the other kids.
Unfortunately Henry HATED the river and cried the entire time. We had to set his tube free so it wouldn't slow us down. I had a blast despite the 40 lbs of whining child in my arms. It was kind of slow going since the river is so shallow, we got hung up a bunch until we figured out the whole "lifting your bum" part. Steve was a champ and freed us from numerous rocks. We got out midway through the course and stood in the rain while we waited to be shuttled back to our car. I would do it again without Henry.
And here is Henry, sleeping in on our air mattress after a rough night of serious down pouring rain. He ended up in bed with us at 4:00 am and luckily we were all able to get back to sleep and stayed dry. Since everything was wet, we packed up bright and early and headed home with a car full of wet camping gear and tired people.
I do love camping though.
Thanks again for inviting us, Watnes!
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