1st Camping Trip with the Venture Crew

I went back packing!!!! So I visited daddy and went shopping in his camping closet. Of course once i found out how much it cost i wanted to put it all back. I borrowed a two man tent which I didn't end up using because I shared with another adult named Kathy. i used a whole bunch of waterproof bags to put everything in and a very nice down sleeping bag, and a mat. We hiked 18miles the first day and about 5miles the next.

These are the kitties we found when we first got there

This is Kiersten. She wanted to take them backpacking with us

They we so cute. Kiersten fed them her lunch.

We ran into a couple spiders.

The person leading was called Spiderman because they were in charge of clearing all the webs. I kept my arms up while i was in front because you don't always see them before you walk into them.

It was beautiful out there

This was the area that the kids said was the perfect terrain for raptors.

Karen O'Toole is being adventurous. The others choose to just walk around the tree...

In the front is Kathy and behind her is son Joey.

This was a sign we read half way into the hike to the camp as we hiked with a group of 8. We took a picture with our hands out looking like the stick people but I didn't get it with my camera. :(

This was a gate we had to go through it made us feel like cattle.

I was pretending to make a huge bonfire. We made a fire but it wasn't that big. Peter Addey is really good at gathering firewood. He came back from gathering fire wood with what looked like a small tree and looked at my awe strucken face and said : "I don't believe in multiple trips for fire wood."

Here's Mr. Addey chilling in his cool two-legged chair.

We had a great view from our campsite of a pond.

Joey brought mini pies that he heated up with his pocket rocket stove. How cute!

And last but not least, because I'm a Mabile and we love our card games. I taught them all palace and we played till the sun went down. Kiersten enjoyed it. Can you tell?