Last night and today was "Father-Son camp out". I love to camp and I love my sons so I've always loved to go to Father-Sons camp out. They have it every April so I'm not quite sure why it is in May this year. Brandon is in Alaska so he couldn't make it this year and Ben had to work so that left Alex and myself. Alex almost bailed on me as well because his Volleyball team was in the CIF semifinals last night. For those who may not know what CIF is would be equivalent to State. Since California has more than 30 million people (that is more than the population of Canada) they figured they should give high school sports a chance to win so they broke the state down into smaller areas that would be equivalent to a smaller
state. Alex's game didn't end until well after 9:00 but he was a good sport and we still went camping. He was afraid that everyone would be in bed so I asked him what time he went to bed on father sons camp out when he was younger. He knows darn well that he never went to bed before midnight. He says, "yeah but dad, that was a different generation". He was right, we got there around 10:30 and not a single person was still up. Father-Sons camp out is not what it used to be. That was alright, we pitched our tent and still had a good time. It worked out just perfect, we got up just as they had finished breakfast. We ate our breakfast and then went for a walk around the lake. We camped at Lake Jennings so it was only about a half hour from home.
We then packed up our tent and came back home. I just love laying there at night, smelling the fresh air and listening to the breeze and the night animals. I do love camping but I've noticed a big difference since I've gotten older. I can no longer sleep on the ground. I have to have a mattress. I had a real nice battery powered air mattress I used for a couple of years but alas, it sprang a leak and does make it an hour before it leaves me on the hard ground. I'm using some old cushions from a lawn chair right now but I need to go and find me a new air mattress. When we got home this morning we started getting ready for prom night. Poor Alex has had several disappointments with Prom. I won't get into all the details but every time he would get in a group of friends things happened that he couldn't go with them. He was getting all mopey so Lisa decided to plan it all for him. Since I don't want to turn this post into a book I will talk about Prom tomorrow. I'll just say here that it turned into a great experience. We'll see if Alex agrees when he get's home tonight
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Last night and today was "Father-Son camp out". I love to camp and I love my sons so I've always loved to go to Father-Sons camp out. They have it every April so I'm not quite sure why it is in May this year. Brandon is in Alaska so he couldn't make it this year and Ben had to work so that left Alex and myself. Alex almost bailed on me as well because his Volleyball team was in the CIF semifinals last night. For those who may not know what CIF is would be equivalent to State. Since California has more than 30 million people (that is more than the population of Canada) they figured they should give high school sports a chance to win so they broke the state down into smaller areas that would be equivalent to a smaller
state. Alex's game didn't end until well after 9:00 but he was a good sport and we still went camping. He was afraid that everyone would be in bed so I asked him what time he went to bed on father sons camp out when he was younger. He knows darn well that he never went to bed before midnight. He says, "yeah but dad, that was a different generation". He was right, we got there around 10:30 and not a single person was still up. Father-Sons camp out is not what it used to be. That was alright, we pitched our tent and still had a good time. It worked out just perfect, we got up just as they had finished breakfast. We ate our breakfast and then went for a walk around the lake. We camped at Lake Jennings so it was only about a half hour from home.
We then packed up our tent and came back home. I just love laying there at night, smelling the fresh air and listening to the breeze and the night animals. I do love camping but I've noticed a big difference since I've gotten older. I can no longer sleep on the ground. I have to have a mattress. I had a real nice battery powered air mattress I used for a couple of years but alas, it sprang a leak and does make it an hour before it leaves me on the hard ground. I'm using some old cushions from a lawn chair right now but I need to go and find me a new air mattress. When we got home this morning we started getting ready for prom night. Poor Alex has had several disappointments with Prom. I won't get into all the details but every time he would get in a group of friends things happened that he couldn't go with them. He was getting all mopey so Lisa decided to plan it all for him. Since I don't want to turn this post into a book I will talk about Prom tomorrow. I'll just say here that it turned into a great experience. We'll see if Alex agrees when he get's home tonight
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You and Lisa have got to be the coolest parents ever!
Camping all planned out. Prom all planned out. Can't wait to read what he did and how he liked it!
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