For John’s Birthday, I had given him a “Super Duper Flip Card” with lots of activities that we could do together listed on it. Two of them had been a hike and a backyard camp-out, so we decided to combine them and take a hike down to the river that runs behind our house, spend the night, and come back the next morning. We had a lot of fun, and I thought you might enjoy some of the pictures I took of our “adventures”, so here they are:
We headed out of civilization at 5:20
Once we got down to the river we immediately began setting up our tent because of the thunder we could hear in the distance 
After getting our camp set up, we did some exploring, finding some sticks that we could use to cook our dinner on
We started cooking our “gourmet” as soon as the sticks were whittled (it was starting to rain)
Yum! (I assume, John ate 5!)
We then cooked our dessert: Marsh mellows! (We were manly men and used the same sticks we had roasted our hot dogs on!)
Yum again!
We did more exploring until it got dark
We then piled into our tent for the night
John said, “Good night, Don’t let the ground bugs bite!”
We woke up at 6:25 and immediately began making breakfast
John was able to warm two things at once over the campstove!
Yum yet again!
After we finished eating, we packed everything up and left our campsite to make a round-about way towards home
Home at last!
