Tuesday, June 02, 2009

worth a gamble

As of Friday morning, the forecast for Vermont was all sorts of doom and gloom. Family pow-wow made it clear that we all really wanted to go camping, though, so we packed up and headed out. Sunshine for the ride there, some clouds during the 20 min. it takes us to set up camp, and a pleasant evening! Raindrops started to fall at dusk, so kids headed for the tents to read by headlamp and I continued knitting by the dwindling fire, looking oh so stylish in my fabu rain poncho and headlamp!

We were dry and cozy in our tents as it rained overnight, but there was sunshine in the morning...

and the remainder of the weekend had only a little bit of rain here and there, certainly not enough to put a damper on anything, mostly with glorious blue skies and bright sunshine!

Since it's early in the season, we had the campground practically to ourselves, which was exceptionally peaceful and beautiful. There was much walking, biking, reading, fishing (above - Jesse in red, Scott on the shore) campfire cooking, drinking of local brews (Magic Hat #9 and Long Trail Belgian White -- omg, so good), and a good bit of knitting. I'm pretty close to starting the saddle shoulders on Scott's gansey.

We all agreed that this was a gamble worth taking!
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4 Comments:

Anonymous CTJen said...

oh, how fun! i haven't been camping in AGES. I should probably remedy that...

3:53 PM  
Blogger Turtle said...

it looks like most of our WA camping weekends!

9:42 PM  
Blogger Rani said...

A campground to yourselves was certainly worth a little rain! What a great way to spend time with your family.

I'm lovin' that sweater!

6:09 AM  
Blogger Liz said...

where in VT were you camping, it looks like a great campgroud....is it just a tent place or are trailers OK - we gave up the tent several years ago in favor of a hybrid trailer, pop-up style beds on a trailer. I haven't been fishing in a while, so that stream looks like a lot of fun.

2:32 PM  

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