This last week our family went to Peninsula State Park to go on a camping expedition. Lindsay and Peter were back from England, Chris and Sarah, Andy, and Linda & I went with them to Door County and enjoyed Peninsula...the place we had camped as a family for so many years.
Camping can be enormously fun, but it's also quite ponderous...nothing is easy. You go get water, start fires, boil water to clean dishes...even making coffee which is an absolutely necessity in life has to be carefully and slowly down if you're going to enjoy something more than campfire mud. But what you get with camping is the outdoor aesthetics... campfires on cool nights, amazing sunsets, and early morning campfires when all is quiet. You can't beat it.
This expedition was really the brain child of our children. Chris, Lindsay, and Kelly (at first) wanted to take their spouses to this place that we had so often gone to as a family while they were growing up. It so happened that Kelly and Greg couldn't join us...they moved to Cottage Grove from Chicago at the end of that week! So, while we missed them joining us at the camping, we got the joy of having them just a few blocks away for at least the next year.
It's been so great to have Lindsay and Peter around for the last week. They still have almost a week left to be with us, so we're cramming in as many things as possible in order to enjoy the time together with them.
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