On Tuesday, Alex invited himself to our enrichment night. The theme was dutch oven cooking and being the avid cook, he just couldn't resist. He told everyone he was working security. (I think they might have bought it.) Anyway, of course after that, we had to dust off our dutch oven. Actually we had to grind all the rust off with a special drill bit and reseason it because we had neglected it far too long. We decided to test it out and invited two families from the ward to join us on our culinary adventure. Basically the whole purpose of the trip was to cook (and eat, of course.)
We decided on Camp Nisqually because it is close (only about half an hour away in good traffic) and the church owns it, so it is quiet. Also we got to sleep in these funky A-frames. Although the girls opted to sleep in a tent. You can see we rigged up some mosquito netting for our portion of the place. It worked pretty well--no bites. Wish I could say the air mattress worked as well.
We decided on Camp Nisqually because it is close (only about half an hour away in good traffic) and the church owns it, so it is quiet. Also we got to sleep in these funky A-frames. Although the girls opted to sleep in a tent. You can see we rigged up some mosquito netting for our portion of the place. It worked pretty well--no bites. Wish I could say the air mattress worked as well.
The kids had a blast. They didn't appreciate our culinary inventions as much. They mostly ate hot dogs, s'mores and lots of junk food. By the time we got our cobblers, shepherd's pies, bacon, pancakes, breakfast casserole etc. etc. done, they weren't hungry anymore. Luckily a Samoan branch was having an Elder's Quorum camp out and were happy to take our leftovers off our hands. They also had the most beautiful singing voices. We, on the other hand, provided the service of being loud enough all night that they always knew where the camp was when they returned from the restroom. Always glad to be of service.
We also discovered a new place on this trip--Cabelas, outdoor store extraordinaire. They have a giant mountain in the middle of the store was tons of beautiful taxidermied animals and an aquarium underneath it. Plus the hugest supply of camping and hunting stuff you've ever seen. The best part was that no one looked twice at our obviously camping appearance when we showed up. We exercised restraint, but it could've been much worse.
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