Fathers and Sons Campout

This was Erick's first Father and Sons Campout. It was a lot of fun. After we ate dinner and shortly after sundown, both boys said they wanted to go to bed! Poor Erick really was tired, but Ben endured and stayed up to play capture the flag with the other boys. Erick hung out with me and we played some chess by the campfire while the big boys ran around in the dark.

We camped right by the lake (click on the picture to go to google maps to see the context). Pilot Knoll is a nice park. It was completely full that night. I'm used to camping and not having a single other camper within a dozen miles, so this was a little weird, but that's city camping for you.

The boys had a lot of fun throwing rocks in the lake. We found tiny baby frogs the size of my fingernail. Erick liked how they jumped around. We found a turtle and a water snake too.

We eventually went to sleep at 10:30 that night. The older boys were still playing capture the flag. They used our tent as the hiding place for one of the flags, so we kept getting some seekers by our tent. Erick and Ben fell alseep pretty quickly.

The next morning was beautiful. We hiked around some more, ate breakfast and then packed up and went home before Ben's soccer game.