27 May 2009

3rd Annual

Once again, I have to eat my words. We spent last weekend at our 3rd annual Memorial Day Weekend Boomba Group Campout. I was really, really not looking forward to it (as everything seems like an enormous hassle lately), but I stand corrected. The area and the company were both spectacular. In fact, it was so great that I haven't even minded the post-camping cleaning-up.
This year we went to Bushkill falls, an area in the Delaware Water Gap, which is in Eastern Pennsylvania as it borders New Jersey by the Delaware River.

Since our campsite was on the shore of the Delaware river there was plenty of water (and mud) play.
We had an afternoon of hiking through an area of waterfalls.







As always, there was good campfire time...and s'mores.

Adam and Alex took the boys on a little mountain bike ride. Jon took the (very excited) kids out fishing--and Ilse was successful. Jon later cleaned and cooked the fish (with far fewer of the kids participating).


We missed Amy who had to stay home for work.

And my littlest boy here actually slept through both nights. Wahoo. He must want to go out camping again.

I could possibly be talked into that--he earned it.

5 comments:

Anna said...

It looks so beautiful! What a fun way to spend the weekend. Are you guys camping in UT when you go south? If so feel free to borrow stuff if you need to.

Emily S. said...

Wow that looks like a ton of fun! I am so glad you got to go!

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad you had a good time! And these are really, really adorable photos of your beautiful kids.

Kaerlig said...

Yay. I'm glad you had a good time. The waterfalls are very pretty and hurray for sleep (which is hard to get while camping).

Ferrin Family Funny Farm said...

Are you coming to Utah in the near future? The waterfalls in your pictures remind me of one of Eric's favorite haunts, Watkin's Glen, NY. We love that place. Hope you are all doing fine! Let us know if you have visiting time if you get to Utah.

Sarah