Smoothly Roughing It
Jenelle and Jonathan, reluctant to let their three-kids-under-three status keep them from enjoying the Great Outdoors, decided to take their family camping. Since this would be the first camping trip with newborn twins, they were reluctant to go certain places. For example, they were reluctant to go anywhere that would require spending the night in a tent.
Fortunately, in Oregon there are many ways to go camping without a tent and without sleeping under the stars. (Some purists will assert that this is merely “camping” and not camping, but one should note that most of those purists do not have a young gaggle of girls to travel with.) So, the Vance family made a September reservation for a cabin at Stewart State Park, which is only a 35-minute drive from their house.
The cabin had a lovely view of the coast mountains. It also had some simple furniture, electricity and heat. It proved to be about the right level of camping for the Vance family right now.
Although Annika was already an experience camper, she enjoyed new experiences like roasting marshmallows and helping Daddy with breakfast. She thought her sleeping bag was pretty exciting, too, since it was Mommy’s and it was pink.
After managing to get some sleep during the night, everyone went for a nice stroller-friendly walk on a trail in the park.
More pictures are here.
Monday, 2. November 2009 0:30