Cherry Family: May 2009

We went camping this last weekend and for Memorial Day. We sure had a hard time getting started. We started early in the afternoon and got everything ready to go and then went to go buy groceries a new tent and anything else that we needed for camping. After we got home we decided that we should probably go look around to make sure that there was a place to camp. We didn’t take anything with us because we weren’t fully ready yet and wanted to make sure we could find a place to camp first. So we drove around for a while until we found a place at the Wolf Creek Campground south of Prescott. Then we went back home to get our things and then we headed out to go camping. When we got to the camp ground it was almost dark (not to mention that it started raining but luckily stopped after 15 minutes). We started getting things out and then started putting the tent up and guess what? The tent we bought had no poles and as you know there isn’t no putting up a tent without poles... sooooo we packed everything up and we were determined that we were still going to go camping because of the full day that we had already had put into getting everything ready and prepared to going camping. So we headed to Walmart where we had bought the tent and returned it for a different one. Know you would think that this would be about the end of the story but not quite yet. So as we are heading back to the campground now after dark... guess what happens? We get pulled over by a cop. We weren’t planning on being out at dark and the trailer that we where pulling with our quads on it had no lights so a cop gets behind us and pulls us over. Luckily after a few minutes we just got an order to fix the lights and where able to be on our way. Finally we made it back to the campground well after dark and put up our tent, got the kids ready for bed (which the kids had already been sleeping in the car for quite a while by this point) and went to sleep. Some may have just given up and probably thought there must be a reason why we were having such a hard time but I guess we were all bound and determined stubborn crazies. All and all the rest of our weekend of camping, riding quads, hiking and hanging out was nice and relaxing... and I would say it was all worth it and full of great memories.

O, one more thing check out the picture of Aiden in the backpack on Brandons back. We went for a hike and Aiden fell asleep half way through the hike. He was a tired little guy.