Cam’s Birthday
Today was Camden’s birthday, which he started by falling out of his bunk at 6am. We had a breakfast of pancakes, which we thought came out even better here than they do at home, possibly because of the cast iron skillet, and then Cam got to open his presents.
As promised, we took him to Applebee’s for lunch, and he got his song and sundae.
On the way back, we were driving by a geocache that showed up next to a “road” that was two dirt tracks that led up into the trees on the side of a hill. It turns out that the geocache is placed off to the side of a cemetery that had headstones (and some footstones, which we’ve never seen before) for graves dating back to 1802. In fact, there was one headstone for a man that lived to 101, and fought (at age 27) in the revolutionary war. Not WWI, not the Civil War, but the one in 1776. (sadly, all our children failed to provide that date when quizzed. Well, Avery was asleep in her carseat, so I guess she gets a pass.) Anyway, this was the most interesting aspect of the cache. In fact, several of the headstones had revolutionary war placards.
We came back, waded in the stream for a bit (where we found out our puppy can swim,) had a hamburger dinner, and had more birthday cake.
In the evenings, we all play games together as a family. Tonight it was Uno Attack, but we play other games as well.
The ironic thing is that as much fun as we have playing these games when we’re camping, we never think to play these games at home. It must be because the kids hole up in their rooms, and we have a TiVo… Hmm.