The last two days have been interesting for us. We are at a new campsite, as we moved closer to Washington DC so that we could see the sights of DC easily. That was always the plan. However, our other plans were to go to Six Flags America today in between the two campsites. On our way to the campsite we realized that we didn't know what to do with the bird. If we left him in the car we would come back to dinner instead of our living breathing pet. Thank the goddesses that this one time our camp sites were less than two hours apart and the new campsite was actually closer to Six Flags than the old one.
So, we made our way to the new campsite which I had very low low hope for. This campsite is about 12 miles from DC. Being so close to the city I assumed it was going to be one of those in the middle of the highway, dirt camping pad type things. When we arrived we found a beautiful Green Belt Parkway with acres and acres of trails and beautiful campsites. As we had just left a campsite that was extremely hot and fly laden, this was a welcome change.
With new campsites comes lots of work. First we had to pack up in the morning and then unpack in the afternoon. this was a rude reality awakening for both kids. I feared this moment. Truly it was as bad as I thought it might be. The temperature is in the hundreds and the humidity level is at 90 percent. You can imagine this is not the most ideal situation to be lugging heavy equipment in an out of our car and setting it up. In addition, sleeping is a whole new adventure when the light shines in your tent at 5 in the morning and the sounds of nature serenade you awake. Between the last 2 nights we may be gotten about 4 to 5 hours of sleep each. Needless to say tempers are tight.
In the end, it became apparent that the better choice between heading to Six Flags and staying at Camp, was for us to settle into our new campsite rather than heading to Six Flags today. We each tried to find what would settle and sooth us. Ella read. Katrin asked to go to a local pool where we swam for a little while and then I took a long walk in the woods. All in all, it was a great day. Not what we expected but better.
Tomorrow we go to Six Flags. The day after that we will go see the sights of Washington DC. This change in plans will cause us not to be able to do as much as I wanted but that's life and it was worth the sanity.
That's a picture of us at dinner time in our new campsite. I've been asked a couple times what we eat. Tonight's dinner included Mesquite flavored chicken breast, grilled sweet potato, and boiled carrots. We were all fans of the chicken and the sweet potato but we missed our usual brown sugar on our carrots.
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