The Good:

-We had good weather.
-We had great company.
-We had lots of yummy food & fun.
-Abel loved being outside and playing with his friends.

The Bad:

-Our car almost overheated on the way down there and we had to pull over on the interstate.
-It rained caterpillar poop like you have never seen! When we were in our tent it sounded like rain and we kept peeking out to see if it was raining….nope, just poop!
-Abel jumped out of his pack & play.
-Our monkey also escaped from the tent (no joke)! He figured out how to unzip it and was a screaming maniac in his pjs.

And the Very Ugly:

-Abel had 10 bouts of diarrhea! And I honestly have no idea why? He didn’t poop for a day and half once we got home. (We joked that he felt so free in the great outdoors because he would just hug a tree and grunt “poopies”.)
-We sat in 1.5 hours of DEAD STOP traffic to get to our campsite (which was only 15 miles away!) Got love NOVA!
-Abel REFUSED to go sleep in the tent and SCREAMED for hours! (I’m not sure if our neighbors will want to go camping with us again.)
-Abel slept maybe 5 hours and was up by 5:30am. (waking up everyone else in our campground) He popped up and said “Good morning! Owen up yet?”  He was the last to go to bed and the first to get up. That’s our boy!
-Seth and I maaaaybeee got 2-3 hours of sleep.

The kids (Owen, Sophie and WILD CHILD)

The girls (Lauren is due is Oct. What a trooper she is. It is highly unlikely I would ever go camping while pregnant!)

The guys. The were SO loving the outdoors. It sure is nice to have great men to set up the camp site and cook dinner.

Our set-up. Crazy how much stuff you need and we were only there 18 hours! ha! Next time will be longer. Can you even believe I am even saying there will be a next time?

And we saw about a million of these little things. Seriously, I had no IDEA caterpillars pooped so much!!! All your heard was them crunching on leaves and their poop droppings! Thank God Nick and Heather were smart enough to set up a tarp above our food, because there were about a million caterpillar droppings that fell on the tarp. so nasty!

And that about wraps it up folks. I can’t BELIEVE we actually did it and we survived (just barely), but we did it! I will say I had a moment of “I am never doing this again” when we got home because Abel refused to nap after all his shenanigans! But once I got my sanity back, I realized it wasn’t that bad and really was a lot of fun.