Camping

This past weekend we headed up to Pymatuning Lake for a couple days of fun in the.... "sun" Before we even left the trip wasn't going well. Our air matress had a hole in it and we couldn't find it to fix it. So we didn't bother to take it with us, which meant we would be sleeping on the ground. fun.

We got there on Sunday afternoon and Sean went about trying to get a fire started. There are places along the way that sell firewood and Sean picked some up while I put the tent up. He didn't get the wood from the right place. Because of the huge storms that had rolled through the week before the wood was wet. After 3 hours of trying we gave up and I went for pizza! Thank God for Pizza Joe's. By the time I got back with the pizza Sean had been able to get the fire going. That was about 4 hours after we got there. Which means we didn't get to go fishing Sunday night like we planned. Monday morning we made pancakes and eggs and bacon. If anyone has tried to make pancakes over a fire you know how extremely difficult it is. The fire wouldn't stay consistant and the pancakes took forever!! And the eggs were kinda yucky too, for the same reason. The pancakes tasted good, but took too long. We then headed to the beach, 5 miles down the road. Kinda rocky, but it's a beach, can't complain too much. We were the only ones there for most of the morning. 2 hours out in the sun and I didn't even get a tan, what is up with that?! The girls spent the time in the innertubes and playing in the sand. We then went to feed the fish at the spillway. I forgot the camera, but I have pictures from last year, I'll have to post some so that ya'll ge tthe magnitude of the fish feeding frenzi that goes on. It's kinda gross, and cool at the same time. The ducks can get pretty aggressive and will actually take the bread out of the fishes mouth if it doesn't close it fast enough. After feeding the carp we went fishing for some real fish. It was a crappy day for fishing. The wind was blowing and it made the lake really choppy, and they fish weren't biting at all. Sean and the girls fished for a while, I went back to the campsite to read my book and make some s'mores. mmmm. After Sean and the girls got back we went to bed. And I forgot to put away the marshmellows and the graham crackers and the chocolate. Sooooo, you can guess what comes next. yes, we had visitors in the middle of the night. A couple of raccoons decided they wanted some s'mores. They ate the rest of the chocolate, all the marshmellows and 3 packages of crackers. gotta love the little buggers. Actually we wanted to shoot them cause they knocked over the pots and then were fighting all night. Guess they got hopped up on chocolate and went crazy. The next day we were looking for the potato chips to eat with lunch, seems they got those to:) On Tuesday Sean and the girls spent the day fishing and I spent the day cleaning up the campsite. I have no idea what the attraction is about fishing, but the girls and Sean are fasinated with it. I'll leave that to them. Once we were all packed and ready to go we headed to my gramma's house were they went fishing..... again. I wanted to drive a tractor around so I hooked up a wagon and took Abby around the fields. Sabrina was too busy fishing to take a ride. Sean and the girls caught a bunch of stuff, nothing we coudl eat, I guess. Everytime they put there line in the pond something ate the bait. Fun stuff, for them at least. So we got home about 8 tuesday night. A lot later than we had planned. We planned on going to bed at 7 cause we didn't get any sleep while camping due to the hard ground and the raccoons, but that didn't happen. o well. I'll catch up one of these days.