Summer Vacation - day 2

Day 2 found us driving to Dinkey Creek (just outside of Shaver Lake) to camp for a couple of nights! I was VERY nervous when we checked in and they told us that there was a bear in the area and that we needed to keep anything that had a scent in the car and our coolers covered (since bears know what they look like and will break into your car if they see them), but I tried not to think about it!

The camp site we had was huge! It had rocks all along the back of it, which the kids LOVED, of course! They were climbing all over them from the second we got there!
We got right to work setting up the tent and the rest of camp.
As soon as we were done setting up, the kids took out their new binoculars to see what was around us! I had just sat down to read when...
IT STARTED POURING RAIN!!! Of course, I hadn't gotten the DVD player out of the car yet, but I did manage to get out the games. So, for the next TWO HOURS we sat in the tent and read, played Sleeping Queens, War, and our new favorite...SPOONS!!!

The rain was so bad that we had a lake around our tent, so Shane had to go out in it and dig a trench...with a rock! We were really roughing it!
Once the rain finally ended...we assessed the damage. Our chairs were soaked...and totally muddy...as was everything else! For the most part, the inside of the tent stayed dry...we had a few puddles here and there, but we kept up with them with some towels we had in the tent with us.
So...dinner was spaghetti o's in a cup...with no place to sit and eat it! You can tell the kids really minded that...NOT!
Of course, we had to do Smores...no matter how wet and soggy everything was! We were lucky to get a fire started...yes, all of our wood got wet too! Mason found some bark that would burn...and true to form...he had a flaming marshmallow on the end of his stick before long!