Camping out

Now this is my first blog too. This is exciting, but yesterdays events were even wilder...

We had one terrific late summers day on Thursday, and the forecast was the same for Friday and Saturday. Since about two years, I wanted to take Kili out for a big adventure and spend the night in a somewhat roomy 'rain shelter' in the forest that I found while hiking one day. Now this might have sounded a little lame, but it is next to a beautiful creek on the one side and a really big waterfall to the other side, there is a table with benches out in the back of the thing and little wooden deck with benches on the front side. Everything is all wood, the inside does not have anything except a wooden floor and benches around the sides of the wall. The floor is big enough for 4 grown ups to sleep on. There is a doorway without a door, and a window that is just open. A pretty cool place...

So on Thursday, the plan was made, that the Papas (Peter Aigner , the guy from the Fairytale park and me) take their older kids for a sleepover there) Well, we did ask our kids if they wanted to do that, and they were excited (despite the 30 minute walk, that turned into a 50 minute hike).

It was really nice, with a camp fire at the creek, Smorres included (thanks to Mara, who made sure that we bring the right stuff), chatter and talk amongst the little and the grown up ones. The kids went to bed really nicely after marvelling at the stars for at least an hour. After a really quiet and calm night the murmur of the stream woke us (and the gobbling of a whacky animal) in our cosy sleeping bags. After a quick (and actually not too cold) breakfast, we headed for the waterfall, and explored a little there. Everybody had a great time - it was a wonderful experience!

The rest of the day, the Kolb family was getting the wood for the winter in place. Bummer. But it feels good to know that we can be cosy when the weather turns gross.

Love you all!