First day back from work after our family’s Easter Campout. We had a great time out at Cedar Hill State Park.
Three of us, my two brother in laws and myself, set out early on Thursday to get things set up. However, we didn’t make it to camp until mid afternoon. We got the tents set up, and then sprayed them down with some water sealer since the forecast called for rain on Friday. (Only some minor leaks, two on our tent.)
The normal camping loops we choose were closed so we had to drive around the park looking for sites. This worked to our advantage as we found much better spots. The sites we ended up with were huge. We ended up setting up 3 tents (two of them were 8 person cabin tents,) a 4 person tent, a 10×10 canopy, and two 12×12 canopies all in one site. With all but one of the 12×12 canopies we made a base camp type setup:
Easter Family Camp - Base Camp
This gave us a nice place to sit and play while it rained on Friday. It was nice to be able to step out of your tent without being rained on.
The DORBA mountain bike trails at Cedar Hill were closed (have been since October we found out.) So we ended up just riding the bikes around the camp loop. Joshua finally learned to ride his bike without someone holding on. He could do, and had done it a couple of times at home, but he seemed to still be a little scared of doing it alone. With his cousin arriving shortly he quickly got over it though. He wanted so much to be able to show his cousin that he could ride alone.
Sunday as we were packing up the kid’s got a visit from the Easter Bunny. There were a ton of little plastic eggs scattered all over the campsite. I think they had a blast - I was busy packing the trailer up. Christa got some pictures from the easter egg hunt, when I get some time I will dig through the camera and upload a few of the pictures and update this post.
Well, back home and back to work. Looking forward to our next camp out.
