We hadn't gone camping with just our family for a lo-o-ong time. So we reserved a site as close as possible to Ape Cave, another location we've been wanting to visit.
Nathan: loved roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. Favorite from Ape Cave: 'sliding down the ramp'
(?!)
Daniel: loved s'mores! (
but didn't like being left behind when the big kids got to try hiking the upper section of Ape Cave on Saturday)
Joseph: eating s'mores and crawling in ape caves.
Caleb: lower caves: easy; upper caves: hard
(he & Joseph were too short to scramble over the huge boulders in the way)
Beth: S'mores, and climbing part of the upper caves was fun.
Jacob: S'mores and the cave was cool in two different ways.
Michael:the lower cave wasn't nearly as interesting as the upper, but going a ways without a functioning headlamp was interesting.
Rebekah: breaking a board in half with my foot and crawling/army crawling all the way to the end of the lower caves. And breaking out in song and even occasionally having people join in the whole weekend.
mom: S'mores, of course! The lava tube cave was COOL once I got over being trapped underground in an enclosed space:P Another surprising favorite was listening to 'The Books of Umber' on CD during the drive--we need to find another hour's worth of drive somewhere soon, to finish it, though! I loved having bigger kids for this camping trip -- no midnight bathroom runs or major spills or messes, plus they're actually helpful:)
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| It's nice to just tell teenagers to put the tent up, and they do it! |
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| Beth volunteered to whittle shavings to start the fire with |
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| Boys + sticks + rock = game |
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| Wishing for a string |
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| Love our family-size tent! |
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| The stakes were missing, and hammer forgotten. So they made stakes from sticks, and hammered with firewood. |
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| Splitting the wood cutoffs we brought for firewood turned into a contest. |
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| Nathan-sized sticks |
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| In Ape Cave's lower tunnel |
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| The VERY end of the lower tunnel--you had to crawl to get to this point (I did NOT take the picture:) |
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| Ape Cave's lower tunnel |
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| Ape Cave's lower tunnel: 'the meatball' |
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| exiting the cave: there's a HUGE temperature change in those few feet! |
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| The older kids climbed a little ways into the upper cave, so were behind the rest of us |
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| A little information:) |
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