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Camping Pictures!

To the left here you see the camp site map.  It's not exactly to scale, but I tried.  The camp sites we were in at Kamp Dels were for tent or trailer camping; they were about thirty feet wide by about 50 feet deep.  Not too shabby here. We backed up against a seasonal trailer (this guy was so serious about his seasonal camping, he had a concrete pad, rather than a wooden deck, right about where the words "seasonal trailer" show on the diagram.  And his water hookup (not shown) had a Culligan water filter tank right there - along with sewer hookup.  Can't say as I'd be sorry to have that).  Fortunately for him, he didn't show up all weekend - we weren't really noisy, but with two kids of our own and three from the trailer across the site, we're talking "noise" in a relative term. Anyway, you see our site, and we faced across to their site.  Did you know that all trailers have doors and awnings on the ... well, we'd call it "passenger side" if you were towing it, but we'll call it "right side" if you're facing the direction of the travel.  And all utility hookups are on the left.  While that idea originally struck me as very dumb, and rather arbitrary (for example, if we bought a trailer, we could face them but for the fact that we'd have to go nose in, instead of back in).   Then it occurred to me - you need to be close to the utility hookups, and most drivers are better at judging distances on the left sides of their vehicles (at least in this country - if you drive on the right side of your car, it's probably the right side of the vehicle in other places).

See, I can SO make a fire!  This one was, oddly enough, in the rain.  I'm very impressed with myself.  And the camera didn't do too bad either.

Yeah, "roughing it".  This was Saturday morning after we'd gotten back from town.  With that necessary camping implement you se me enjoying there.  "Necessary" in view of dewpoints in the seventies.  As I explained to Dan Bowman earlier this week - 25% humidity isn't bad - even 100% isn't bad if you're talking temps in the 40s - that's how you get "fog".  However, 70% humidity and temps in the 90s really suck.  </END OF METEOROLOGICAL DIGRESSION>.  Behind me you see our big tent, coolers, the kid's camping chairs, and the "seasonal" trailer behind all of that...  

This is our basic camp setup.  Their tent, with the front entry flap down at the moment, is to the left; our "borrowed" tent is to the right.  Yes, that's my daughter's bike out front that she's hopefully headed to move; you can also see our "sugar water supply".  Since we don't often allow the kids soda pop, this was a big deal.  Jack typically drank water, and Rhiannon would take a couple slugs off a strawberry pop and then forget about it.

My daughter, imitating Dad.  Cute kid.  

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