Camping at Vallecito lake

 While they were here visiting we decided to go camping for 3 days. We had a lot of fun but prior to camping we have not had rain for months and the three days that we decided to camp it rained and rained and rained some more.  So we had to get  a little creative in the tents.

 This is a little hike we did on our last day of camping. It was really pretty.

We did some canoing

We ate icecream

We played games of baseball

We looked for lots and lots of bugs

So this is our tent.  Not a good time to find out that we need a new tent. We had to improvise a little for all of the rain we got.  Mind you this tent is almost 9 years old, it was leaking pretty good.

This is our beatiful sight before it started raining

We did some fishing and swimming

This is basically what our sight looked like the rest of the time.  I call it space camp. We had to buy a really big tarp to go over the top and then we used space blankets for the sides and puuled each of our vans on the sides to block the rain from coming in.

 Also not to leave out the first night we were there, we had a little visitor in our campground at about 1 in the morning. Jeff was no there that night, so I was in my tent alone with the kids and Becky was in her tent alone with her kids, and I awoke to a loud bang in the garbage can. Which  by the way was really close to our sight. Then i started to hear some growling, man that Bear was mad. I was SOOOOO freaked out, i could hardley move, I don't think my heart has ever beated so hard.  I was praying and prayin that the bear would not come over to our tent, but after the garbage can, I heard him come over to our campground and he started playing with our chairs we left out under the canopy. Lets just say that was a little to close for my comfort. To hear him growling feet away form our tent without jeff there was more bear than I need to hear.  Needless to say he wandered down the road, but it took me at least 2 hours to fall back asleep. The funny part was that Becky didn't even hear a thing. Good thing though because I have never been so scared. All in all it was a very fun trip even though it rained the whole time.