Camping!

The Parkers went camping! We headed out on 8-8-08 for a camp-out with the Bowles family. They have two girls as well, one Natalie's age, and the other about a year old. It was fun to get out with friends and do an overnighter with the kids. We headed up to Trabuco canyon to O'Neill Park (neighboring canyon to Santiago Canyon were the huge fires were last year) but they were all full. So we headed to Caspers Regional park off the Oretga highway. It's a pretty nice campground, but there was no water as the wells had run dry. We had plenty o'water though, and it's only an overnighter. It was pretty warm though, even through the night. Natalie and Emily did great sleeping in the tent. While we were setting up tents we saw a tarantula in the road (see next post) and Natalie did stand in a pile of red ants. They had a Nature center that we stopped by on the way out, and the girls had fun there. They had coloring pages and animals to look at and touch. Then we headed home and to the Bowles apartment pool party. There was good food and the swimming was great after a hot day in the sun.