More camping
Last year, we took two one-night camping trips. This year we decided to go big and go TWO nights! We found a campsite at Del Valle, which is near Livermore in the East Bay. It has a big lake (people bring their boats) and the campsites are pretty big. We went with our friends S. and Dave.
We arrived Friday night and set up the tents and had dinner around the campfire. It was a bit chilly at night. This time, Jack stayed in his sleeping bag, but the first night he woke up in the middle of the night and hurled himself on top of Chris, yelling “Where are we!!” eventually he calmed down and slept a while with his arms around Chris’s neck. Don’t think Chris got a lot of sleep. Also, there were some crazy loud birds screaming for a while. And I heard some people screaming “ARE YOU KIDDING ME… SPRINKLERS???” at some point during the wee hours.
The second night, Jack slept quite well with only one wakeup. I slept a bit better, no screaming birds, but I always have trouble sleeping when we camp.
On Saturday, we went for a hike and had a picnic lunch on the shore of the lake. In the afternoon we played on the beach, and went all around the lake on a pedalboat. Jack loved to steer. That night, we had hobo stew (delicious again!) and made s’mores.
On Sunday, Chris made pancakes for breakfast. We packed everything up, and then I actually headed out to go to my book club. Everyone else went for another hike. Chris was carrying Jack in the backpack and unfortunately on one of the downhills he slipped and sprained his ankle! It was bruised and swollen.. just in time for us to leave for the UK four days later. Chris said it wasn’t too painful, though, and that it would be fine for the trip.
