Camping In

This weekend, we were supposed to go camping with Talya's kindergarten class. The kids (and I) were so excited to go, but on Friday morning, Michaela woke up with a fever, so at the last minute, we cancelled.

We ended up camping out in the backyard for the weekend, and yes, it was a great trial run. We ate dinner and made s'mores early, then brought Shabbos in late. On Saturday, we played lots of games, played outside, ate, napped, and read. It was a lot of fun to go camping with all the comforts of home readily available: the toilet, shower, refrigerator, clean, dry clothes, etc. It was fun to go to sleep in the warm sleeping bag in the cold night air and to wake up to the sounds of cars driving down 35th and the music playing at Starbucks. We missed our friends, but enjoyed each other.