Kennedy's First Camping Trip

After festivities on the Fourth, Justin, Kennedy and I set out camping! It has been a very important goal of mine to introduce Kennedy to the natural world at a young age. I want her earliest memories to be of camping, hiking and playing in the outdoors. So the three of us set out to Flaming Gorge on Saturday night. We stayed in the Miller family's pop-up trailer in a primitive camp site about 15 miles below the dam, on the Utah side. We had a beautiful view of the Green River!

The pop-up trailer, while some may argue is not true camping, was wonderful to have. It provide shade from the hot sun and shelter during a few microbursts on Sunday. In addition, it was a clean place to change and wash Kennedy. We will certainly start using a tent soon but this was a great first exposure.Lady and her Dad.

While Justin and some friends floated a portion of the Green on Sunday, Kennedy, Jen, Calvin and I all stayed at camp and just relaxed. It was nice having friends there who brought a lot of the camping gear so we did not have to worry about it.

Mom, Kennedy and the pop-up trailer!

The only incident that was not succesful was the drive home. Kennedy is not much of a car-sleeper so being in the car for nearly 5 hours with only tiny naps to sustain her made our cheerful little girl angry! It was a bit of a fight to get her to sleep when we got home but once she was down we could celebrate a first successful camping trip!