First Time Camping in 2017

Hi Friends,
I am sorry it has taken me a while to write this blog.
So here I am I will tell you a little about our first camping trip for the season.

We always like to take a short trip to practice our pop-up skills when we start camping for a new season.  You just never know when you might forget how to do some important task.
We went to one of our favorite places, Wallace State Park near Cameron.  As it turned out our skills were still there just a little slow.

After setting up camp Dave and I were sitting in our new camp chairs enjoying the outdoors when our neighbor in the campsite next to ours came over to introduce himself.  He was a gentleman traveling by himself.  He was a free lance writer who was taking a trip from Minnesota to Arizona and writing his journal along the way.  He was only going to be there one night and then off the next day to see the Truman Library and then back on the road again toward his destination of Arizona. We had a nice conversation with him about his family and the kind of life he leads. We finished talking and he went back to his campsite.

At dinner time we met up with Sharon and Don and had our usual first night out dinner of hot dogs, beans and potato salad along with a nice fruit salad.  All went well and dinner was good.

Since we were only about an hour and half from home Don and Sharon were able to go back to KC to keep a doctor's appointment the next day.  Dave and I took our time around camp, drank our coffee and had a muffin and then went into Cameron to visit one of my favorite places, The Iron Horse gift shop.  I got lots of ideas for my own crafting.

Shortly after we arrived back at camp Don and Sharon arrived and so it was my night to get dinner on the table.  We had hamburgers, grilled onions, corn on the cob all cooked over an open fire.

I wanted to do something special our second night so I put on my cowgirl hat and asked Sharon to wear hers if she had one.  I love cowboy poems and songs so I first attempted to sing a couple of cowboy songs, forgot some of the words to one and then read some cowboy poems. Hopefully everyone enjoyed them.  I know I liked reading and singing.

Camp broke up around 9:30 and we went our separate ways.

In our camp we usually have lights out around 10:30, but this night was going to be different.
Dave and I were in the pop-up getting everything in order to go to sleep when I happened to look up and saw a spider on the ceiling.  That is not too unusual, except Dave went to kill the spider and missed him knocking him to the floor and neither one of us could find him.
Still sitting and talking before going to bed I was looking around for the spider we couldn't find and I spied a spider close to the curtains on the opposite side of the room from where we found the first one.  Hmmmmm!  I thought to myself.  I don't think that is the same spider.  So Dave went after him, this time the little bugger didn't get away. Okay, two spiders in about a 10 minute span is freaky.  So now I am getting concerned looking every where. What to my wondering eyes should appear but another spider.  Okay, this is not right.  Dave worked his magic again and the little bugger was gone.  Well, our story does not end there.  In a span of about an hour we killed approximately 15 spiders.  They weren't there the night before so the only explanation we could come up with for having that many in our pop-up was that a cold front was coming through and they found a way into our camper looking for shelter.  Things finally settled down and we didn't see anymore spiders for about 30 minutes, so we decided that we probably had killed them all. Reluctantly I pulled the covers back   looking for any signs of spiders,  but did not find any.  I crawled in saying a little prayer that I hoped we had gotten them all and that I wouldn't find any spiders in the morning.  We didn't and I was once again a Happy Camper.

The rest of our stay at Wallace State Park was great with no more bug problems.

I have posted pictures from Wallace before but decided to put a few in this time, hopefully for your enjoyment.

Our next trip took us to Jefferson City, Missouri.  Please check back in a few days to read my story.

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