We go on a family campout with our American Heritage Girls and Trail Life USA friends every fall and spring. We have usually done tent camping with sleeping bags and all. However, when they moved the campout location from Bonham State Park to Possum Kingdom State Park and we discovered that there are cabins for rent at this location we had to try it out.
Call it "Glamping" if you must but we like it! No more worries about wind blowing over our tent in the middle of the night.
There is a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and an extra bed with trundle in the living area. There is a lot of space which is great when the kids have friends come over and hang out with them.
Or sometimes they just hang out on the porch!
But usually they are too busy running around playing games or going hiking to hang out at our site.
I love our campouts because it lets me spend the weekend with my family without the need to do laundry, school planning, etc. I get to hang out in nature which is just good for my spirit and my soul. This was the view of the lake by our cabin.
Stuart and I went on a short hike along the trails. What beautiful weather we had!
I love going on adventures with this man! We wandered off the trail a little way and found some huge boulders and some interesting plant life under the canopy of the trees that was very different from what we saw out on the open trails.
Back at the cabin, this beautiful monarch butterfly enjoyed hanging out on our window screen for a while.
Rachel and her Explorer troop found this mama wolf spider with an egg sac.
They also found a fish skeleton!
This interesting guy was found on the outer wall of our cabin. He was beautiful but we didn't know what it was so we researched it. He is a plume moth. They roll up their wings while they are resting during the day. I would have loved to have seen his wings spread out.
Of course, there are always creepy crawlies to be found at a campout!
Nicholas has been studying fungi in his biology class so we got excited to find this fungus growing on the side of an old tree stump....
And this crazy looking puffball fungi that had already burst open to release its spores into the air.
This weekend was Rachel's birthday so she asked to have shrimp for dinner. She got a big bowl all for herself. She loves all kinds of seafood.
The rest of us had a more traditional camping meal of burgers cooked on the outdoor grill.
There is always a dutch oven dessert contest after dinner. Everyone gets a sample of each dessert and then we get to vote on the best one!
We always look forward to nightfall at campouts because the moms and dads gather around the campfire to listen to music and visit with each other while they kids run around like banshees in the dark.
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