Our First Family Camping Trip!

Over Memorial Day Weekend we took our first camping trip as a family. The kids are finally old enough to rough it camping and in the outdoors. We took them to Yellowstone Lake State Park in Southwestern Wisconsin. It was absolutely a beautiful park. The water was so clean and the best part was that there were no bugs. No mosquitoes, bees, etc. We did have cold and rainy weather for part of the time. It was definitely a TRUE camping experience. The tent leaked water in so all of our stuff got wet for a few days. We cooked all of our meals over the fire and the bathrooms were quite a hike away. The kids learned to use the woods as a bathroom :) I heard the birds early in the morning the first morning at 3am and knew that I couldn't function on a couple hours of sleep for the rest of the weekend so I slept in the car every other night. It was so much fun to spend time like this as a family but I am definitely not a camper and next time we go, we will make sure there is no rain in the forecast and there is plenty of room in the SUV for me to sleep.