We just arrived home from our first family camping adventure.  What a great time we had!  We’ve already got a site booked for a weekend in September and we are going to book a site for next summer.

We arrived Friday around noon and attempted to set up the tent.  I made the foolish mistake of booking on the new side which is very open and windy.  We couldn’t get the tent up for the wind.  So we went up to see if we could get another site on the sheltered side.  We did, but for one night only….which meant we had to set up and then take everything back down again the next morning.  Oh well, we were there and that was all that mattered.  The next day we found a permanent site for the next 3 nights…thank goodness!  No more moving!!  We met up with quiltingmom and family coming up from the beach.  It’s funny when you see pictures of someone and then run into them face to face how you always second guess yourself about whether or not it’s really them.  I’ve met Cara once before and because her family is usually dressed in the same outfits, she’s very easy to find.  We bumped into them on the beach later that evening.  Saturday we spent the day on the beach again and that evening we went for a hayride.  They had an “Anne” character give a history of the campground.  It was pretty cool and the scenery was amazing. Saturday night we heading to quiltingmom’s for some pina colada’s. We were on our second drink when Cara and family arrived with some treats! We had lobster rolls, s’mores and a special pina colada drink Cara had tried while in the Cayman Islands.

Sunday, we took a stroll by Cara’s site to say goodbye and met up with Tricia and family. After chatting and getting some pics, we made plans with tricia and family that evening and headed our separate ways.  That afternoon, we hit the beach and went for a nice walk to the twin shores rock. We got some great pics and the rock formation was really cool!

Monday was the day I was looking forward to the most. It was chocolate bar bingo!! You bring a chocolate bar to play and the prizes are bags of chocolate bars. The first few games were prizes of 15-25 chocolate bars. The last game, which was a full card, the winner was awarded 92 chocolate bars!!! WOW!! I can’t even imagine the sugar rush! I was close once…one number away…I needed O71 and O72 was called for bingo. Oh well, it was fun. There must have been between 150-200 people there. Apparently chocolate bar bingo is very popular.

We had such a great time, it was hard to leave this morning.   After unpacking the car and seeing all the laundry that needs to be done, looks like I will be pretty busy the next few days!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

We are all going camping for 4 nights this friday and I CAN’T WAIT!!!!  There is so much to do, I don’t know where to start.  Friday morning I have some running around to do.  We have to pick up some lanterns, a tent shelter ( I waited too long for the one I wanted and they sold out…grrrr!), and some groceries.  I’ve been browsing the internet and cpo for some camping recipes and I have my grocery list complete.  We’ll be taking both cars with the amount of stuff we will be taking.  We talked about putting the dog in a kennel, but I think we’ll take her.  She loves the beach, she just gets a little excited when she sees other dogs and there will be plenty of other dogs at the campground.  For being a medium size dog, she is VERY strong.  It takes every bit of my strength to hold her when she spots another dog.

I’m hoping we’ll have nice sunny weather.  There has been discussion of a hurricane heading to Nova Scotia.  Hopefully it won’t amount to much.   I’m really looking forward to having some daiquiris and pina colada’s with quiltingmom and ladybugmom.   Break out the s’mores and the doritos girls…..woohoo!!!! Twin Shores will never be the same!!

 

We finally got to see the Backyardigans today.  As many of you may know, the first show was cancelled because the performers were trapped on a ferry that was stuck in ice in the Sydney harbour for 2 days.  Unfortunately, I did not find this out until we arrived at the Confederation centre for the show (the first time).  Today was the rescheduled show and they actually put on 2 shows this time.  I think they dealt with ALOT of upset parents the first time around.   The show was well worth the wait.  Grace had an awesome time.  She was up on her feet dancing and singing and really getting into it.  I enjoyed the show too.  I took a few pics even though they announced at the beginning that cameras were NOT allowed.  Who are they trying to kid? We are talking about the Backyardigans here and the lights flashing from people taking pics was unreal.  I tried to limit it to a few pics while other people were really going camera crazy!!  There were alot of younger kids there and I must say I felt a little guilty about not taking Gabby.  Then again, if I did take her, I would have to put up with Grace picking at her every 5 minutes and Gabby screaming in frustration.   It was nice just to have a few hours alone together, just Gracie and myself.

After the show was over, we went to Mcdonalds for supper and then headed home.  What a great day!

Grace enjoying the show.  The sound guy was right beside us!

Me and Grace before the show