camping

Here it is, finally, our first camping trip blog with the pop up camper (and Zeph's first time camping ever).  Sorry, it has taken me so long to get this posted.  We had almost 200 photos from our four day excursion.  It was so hard to narrow down the photos for this post.

 

We started our journey on Memorial Day (I waited to long to book a campsite for that particular weekend), it was a beautiful day and the weather stayed that way for our entire trip.  It turns out, that Monday is a great day for starting a vacation - everyone else is heading home.  We camped at the Lake Isabel-St Charles Campground, located in the Wet Mountains about 30 miles Southwest of Pueblo, CO.  (It was pretty remote, more so then expected, but nice).  It was beautiful and not as hot (due to elevation) as Canon City and Pueblo are.  Our campsite was on the river, had some shade and was not far from the vault toilets.  Very convenient, I thought, but W was not a fan of the vault toilets for going number two.  Luckily we hit up enough public places, that he was able to take care of business.  Another great thing about not camping over a weekend, very few other campers.  The Haser clan joined us for a few days, which was nice to have some company out in the middle of no where.  W goes to school with Mads, so they kept each other busy and entertained Zeph and Jax (Mad's brother).

We did quite a bit in our four days - we hung around the campground, fished, visited the Royal Gorge in Canon City, toured Bishop's Castle and stopped by the Great Sand Dunes (there will be a blogs on the last three-there was just too much to include in one blog).  

Over all, it went really well and fun was had by all.  We can't wait for our next trip in August.

It did not take long for the kids to get into the whole camping thing.

Zeph really enjoyed the popup.  Luckily, the Hasers brought a pack-n-play (we opted out, thinking we would not need it-we were very wrong). Zeph didn't do well sleeping in the bed, he just wanted to crawl around.  The first night was a bit rough, but it got better and sleep was had by all by the end. 

W is king of the world!                    W doing a puzzle.

Zeph doing one of his favorite past times, eating.

We went fishing, or at least tried to go fishing (only one fish was caught) at Lake Isabel.  We were hoping to go swimming, but it was a bit chilly.  Even though we were close to Pueblo (which is only 4662 ft above sea level) the campground was at 8800 ft and it was only the end of May (which is typically still cold at night).

W got a chance to "fish" and even netted the fish that was caught, by Mads' daddy.

  

Last night having a smore.  

W "helped" break

Campfire talk with Daddy.

The last morning camping.  Packing up is never fun.

Zeph eating, again.

W at "Disneyland", yes that's correct.  W thought this was his "Disneyland".  Not sure how long we can convince him of this, but the longer the better for us, it's much cheaper to camp.