Weekending, Now With Camping

I didn’t mean to abandon the blog last week after Wednesday but I had a good reason: we went on our first camping trip of the season! It was a bit spur of the moment, prompted by the fact that Dale was off for April vacation and the weather forecast was fine, at least for a couple of days.

It was quick trip, literally just 48 hours from Thursday lunch time until Saturday lunch time, but we saw a lot, relaxed a lot, and shook out the cobwebs to get us ready for the full camping season ahead. We had a site right on the Cape Cod Canal and this is the same site we’ll be in for an extended fall stay, from the end of August until the end of October. We won’t be there that whole time, but our camper will and we will be there a lot, I hope.

Here are some snapshots of our trip.

We walked the canal on Thursday afternoon and saw quite a few boats, plenty of ducks, a few ospreys, and lots of other people walking and biking.

We had a campfire, of course. It was just a small one but perfect for the season as it was really too chilly to be outside for long once the sun went down.

Fred and George settled right back into the camping routine. The cutest moment of the trip with them was when it was time to go home and I got out their carriers and they both jumped right into them. I think they know the drill at this point and I love having them with us.

Dale is happiest when he’s outside.

On Friday night this Viking River ship went through the canal and that was a really cool thing to see. It was about 9:30pm and we were actually inside playing cards. Dale was facing the big back window of the camper and he suddenly exclaimed, “get up, get up, let’s go, it’s a cruise ship!” And we raced outside and watched it go by. It was the biggest ship I’ve ever seen go through the canal and I’m so glad we captured it even if the photo isn’t the greatest.

It was a great little getaway!