Indiana Dunes Camping (more later)

Here are some of the pictures from our camping trip at the Indiana Dunes this past weekend. We stayed for two nights in a tent and had many fun experiences (along with a few not-so-fun ones). Andrew and Melody joined us with a tent of their own.

We enjoyed a lot of time cooking around a campfire. In fact, all but one of the meals we ate on the campsite were cooked over the fire (even pancakes and eggs!). We forgot to bring our griddle power cord, so cooked our pancakes in the sandwich cooker sticks over the fire! The biggest challenge with a campfire for us was keeping the toddler away from it.

Isaac loved playing in the tent and with the head lamp. He is like his daddy! We did have to spend some extra time in the tent the first afternoon/evening as it rained some. That was not super pleasant, but we survived.

The boys figured out where to find food, as we pretty much lived out of the back of our car for a few days! I really mean we lived out of it...our car battery died because we constantly opened and left open the back door!

Our camp fare was varied and pretty good. We enjoyed haystack tacos, hobo dinners (meat and potatoes in aluminum on the fire), hot dogs, pancakes, turkey bacon, eggs, and of course...PBJs. Jason determined that camping is not very healthy as we consumed inordinate amounts of chocolate and marshmallows.

Isaac found himself an Isaac-sized chair and munched on some pretzels.

Thanks to Andrew's friend who gave us all the firewood so we could cook so many meals on the fire.

We had fun hiking both days at the Dunes. Figuring out how to transport both boys with just one hiking backpack became a little challenge. We traded them in and out of the hiking backpack and on and off people's backs. Andrew helped by carrying one of the boys from time to time, and Noah walked quite a bit also. Isaac fell asleep both times we hiked with him in the backpack.

We collected some ticks from our hiking trip. Well, I say "we" but it was really just Noah. Thankfully Jason was able to remove them with tweezers.

Hiking about 4 miles over hills in sand with 30 pounds of dead weight on your back is a good workout!

More to come...