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Our camping trip this weekend was a rally with other people who own truck campers similar to ours. We had a great time talking about camping, trucks and campers and campsites and hiking and offroading and etc. etc.

This was Jake’s first camping trip where he’s walking! It was a particularly rocky site, and not very flat either. The terrain was pretty challenging for him, and he took a number of spills that looked quite painful (no wonder we never remember being this age – oh the trauma!). He can totally fall backwards and NOT hit his head though – it cracks me up. It’s like he’s falling in slow motion and he holds back his head from cracking the ground and then slowly rests it on the ground. Once he’s all comfortably sprawled on his back like a stranded turtle, then he commences to wail.

A couple times he fell just to his butt, but he didn’t want to touch the dirt while standing back up. That was frustrating, but he was cute as anything while he tried to figure out this problem. He’d push his hands down, against the air, as if that might be useful. It wasn’t. Eventually he got a little less squeamish about touching the dirt.

HM and her BFF found a creek and played in it ALL DAY. We hardly saw them. They came back at sunset covered in mud from head to toe. Soaked. They had been removing congesting debris and attempting to redirect the creek’s flow. Shoes completely soaked and caked with mud. Luckily one of the other campers had a solar shower and little privacy tent and generously shared their facility.

Here are all the campers:

I love this picture – we were just settling in to enjoy the fire last night as the sun started to set…

Jake looks really big to me in this photo! Like a real toddler look about him:

Just one of the big kids…

Before they found the creek:

One of the couples were professional photographers – primarily nature. Linda was taking photos of a butterfly perched on HM’s friend’s finger: