We spent July long weekend camping in Gladstone; it was a great weekend not too hot and no rain until we got the tents packed up on Sunday. It has been awhile since there were young children camping with us so instead of hiking and long bike rides we had baseball games and water gun fights.
We were camped right beside the fair grounds, town pool and park. On July 1st Gladstone Firefighters had organizied all kinds of children’s activities. While we were washing up breakfast dishes a man came through our campsite and told L that there was a pile of sand filled with gold coins that he could dig for. No one was really sure how to take him, was he just encouraging L to check out the playground? Anyway Aunt C thought there might be something to it and took the kids to dig for gold coins.
Lo and behold there was money in that sand pile, Aunt C always finds a good deal.
This past Friday L took us to the ice cream parlour and treated us to ice cream. I did feel a little guilty he probably should have taken his aunts and uncles for ice cream since they helped him find it.
Even though the dynamic of our camping trips has changed since I was one of the kids, sitting around the campfire never gets old.