For those of you who know us, you may be surprised to see our name and the word “camping” next to each other in a sentence. But our friends suggested we should all go camping together, so we decided to be open-minded and try it out! All of our girls are staggered in age, and since it was the 1st time for all of us to camp with a munchkin, we figured we’d all be in the same boat. To make things somewhat easier, we decided to stay at Campland in San Diego. It’s on Mission Bay, and basically – right in the middle of the city. The only thing that made it camping was sleeping in a tent and having a site with dirt … everything else was pretty easy and convenient. Campland had showers, electricity, a market, a pool, a park … and even Domino’s was delivering pizzas to some of the sites! It may not necessarily be “roughing it” … but at times, it was a little rough! :)
Thank goodness Ed is so awesome – he set up the tent right away with no problems.
The girls got cozy (and dirty!) right away as well …
And once the sun went down, Ruby got to debut some super cute campfire fashion – the little lamb pj’s!
Unfortunately, despite many trials in the pack and play, Ruby just didn’t like sleeping in the tent for some reason. This can also be translated as unfortunately, no one in the Kim family got much sleep in the tent.
Although we had a major lack of sleep, there were some highlights. The 1st was that Ruby was happy as a clam in the pool!
She spent an hour and a half in there non-stop! She was a very happy baby in the water.
Also super awesome was our introduction to “Hobo Stew” …
Basically, you chop up a bunch of veggies, potatoes and sausage. Then you take a piece of tin foil and load up whatever fillings you choose. We had a variety of sauces to add to the mix, such as ketchup, bbq sauce, mustards, wine, beer, etc. that you could top off with before sealing your creation in the tin foil and setting it in the fire pit. The sausage starts cookin’, the steam rises inside and cooks your veggies, and then about 15-20 minutes later you have a pretty good hot meal if I do say so myself!
Thanks to our friends the Arzates for introducing us to Hobo Stew!
All in all, we’re glad we did it – but its safe to say the Kims won’t be camping anytime soon. (Unless you’ve got an awesome vintage Airstream trailer we may be able to borrow from you … :)