Last Minute Camping
Last week we thought it would be fun to go camping up American Fork Canyon for the weekend. On Friday I was talking with my Aunt Debbie about our plans to go up camping and she thought it would be fun to join us and bring my cousins, Jordan and Josh with her. We planned on finding a campground close to each other so we could enjoy each others company. What we didn’t know is that everyone else in Utah County thought the same thing we did. We searched for hours; going up different canyons for somewhere to camp, finally with 6 hours of searching behind us we decided to head home and camp in our backyard.
We had a campfire and roasted marshmallows to make S’mores. We played though the night, Jaymz thought it was pretty cool to play outside in the dark. We slept in the tent and made a big breakfast in the morning. In the afternoon Brandon taught us how to whittle. While whittling Jordan asked Brandon to show everyone his knife and sword collection; Jordan was super cute wanting to get every pose with the sword he could think of captured on camera. We did everything we had planned except for one thing…hiking and instead the boys went down stairs and played Legos and the Wii while Debbie and I chatted for hours.
We had so much fun in our backyard I don’t even know why we wasted all that gas to find a place on the mountain, we may never go camping up to the canyon again (we had electricity, very nice restrooms and water at our pleasure). J/K, we will try another weekend up the canyon but it was fun anyways and we may set up the tent again in the backyard just for some fun.