Tuesday morning, we decided to get this camping thing over with. Zachary wanted to "camp in the wild." We didn't do quite that. We packed up all morning and drove our stuff and our canoe and our kids (but not our dog) over to a forest service campground southeast of Ely on the South Kawishiwi River. We were hoping for a spot. Last year at Fall Lake we were "lucky" to get a spot. I guess this campground is a little quieter. We had no one on either side of us or across. The spot was a few steps down from the road and, according to Zachary, 41 steps from the lake. We pulled in around 2:30 PM, picked the spot (we splurged an extra $2 for a lakefront for a total of $12!), and started to set up camp. That's when we realized that the rucus the boys had made in the tent on Monday had rendered it unihabitable - in a word, broken. Off Tim went to town to buy a new tent. The boys were thrilled, which does not seem like an appropriate emotion after ruining my nice tent. We walked down and played in the lake near our site then walked over to the swimming beach. Zachary chatted up a 2 year old girl and her 7 year old brother, grandkids of a couple from Ely who were staying in the campground with their family for a week. An hour and a half and a failed duct tape experiment later, Tim found us and we went back over to put up the new tent and start dinner.
I made an awesome fire, if I do say so myself. The dinner menu (all cooked over the fire) consisted of
- Galactic Dinner (tinfoil dinner with hamburgers, onions, potatoes, and peppers)
- Moons of Bogg apples (apples baked in the fire)
- Yoda Force Smores (named by jeremy and made in tinfoil packets so as to melt the chocolate and protect the marshmallows from burning.
This Star Wars recipe thing has really gone too far. It didn't really inspire them too much when it came to actually eating the dinner, either. At least not until it came to the smores. Then a round of Kings in the Corner and Skip Bo and to bed.
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