August 8, 2013

Camping went great.  Loved using Russ stove.  We made Chili boats late last night.  Cooking was interesting going everything one after the other this morning.

Things that we need for our next camping trip:
Basic seasonings S/P containers
Any other seasonings
Mayonnaise Packets
Roast Sticks, Skewers
Ketchup Packets (but unnecessary)
Hot Pad
2nd Stove
Pam
Camelpack
Powered Powerade

We did Eggs, Sausage and Hashbrowns for breakfast.  We used eggs from Shelf Reliance.  Yum.  Definitely a great taste.  We boiled the eggs in bags.  It was interesting but worked great.  Glad I brought the apple juice.

For lunch we did hot dogs on the tailgate of the truck, Cheetos, powerade, apples, oranges, and homemade fruit roll ups.

We are worn out from the sun and I haven't figured out dinner yet.  That might take a while since I am sunburned from being in my swim suit for 20 minutes and being out in the sun.

We used about 3 gallons of water between all the water bottles the camel pack, cooking and cleaning the dishes.  Overall it was a great trip.  I learned a lot.  I am hoping that the next time we are able to have a pack that is just for camping stuff that we can just grab and go so packing doesn't take so long.  It was really great to have a night away and doing something we don't normally do.  Next time we will not hike.  Camping is just fun enough with the kids.  Remington was all squeals in the tent and played great in the play pen while we ate.  Madalynn had some fun looking for various things on the forest floor.  It was great.  There were some Racoons that totally scared me and tried to get in the tent, but they couldn't.

Well, I will write more tomorrow.  I am going to costco sometime in the next few days to get all the things that we need.  Hopefully I will get my spreadsheets done too.