Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rocky Gap State Park

We have now completed camping trip #2 with the girls (still sans puppies). We decided on western Maryland this time- a bit further away than our suburban camping experience. The campground was considerably nicer at Rocky Gap however; I don't think I have seen cleaner bathrooms while camping... ever.

Dave spent a good half an hour attaching the stroller to the roof of the truck so we could bring it along this time. We never ended up using it however since we didn't want to spend the time taking it down:) We also brought a 2nd pack n' play along with our little noise machine. I attribute better baby sleeping to 1) They each had their own bed (one did not have to go on the floor next to us 2) the noise machine added a nice wave-seagull ambiance to the tent (it was like we had an ocean front campsite!); 3) they have started to get used to camping!

Stella

Lucy

Dad with Stella

We went to the beach at Lake Habeeb for the girls' first swimming experience. Lucy was not a happy camper when we put the sunblock on her - but once she was in the water she was all smiles. It took Stella a bit to get used to the whole experience but she was soon having fun as well- especially when we started playing with the mini pine tree-looking seaweed! I should note that Stella was the first one in the water!

The only thing that we kind of messed up on is that we did not prepare very well for the cold nights (i had checked the weather before we left and it appeared that it was not going to go below 75 at night, but it was wrong!). None of us had warm clothes with us so we had to get a bit creative. The girls used their own blankets plus a few of Daddy's t-shirts and we ended up using the girls play blanket as an extra cover.

Saturday night, after the girls fell asleep and we were chatting around the campfire- we saw a UFO. At first Dave pointed at the blinking light in the sky through the trees and said "Look at the satellite!"; all of a sudden it shot across the sky. We then thought maybe it was a shooting star, because satellites do not move that fast... right? All of a sudden it shot back- it was moving all over the place up there! We were pretty convinced we were having a super natural experience. And then, right before our eyes, the UFO zoomed down towards my face. This is when we realized that we had been watching a lightening bug the entire time.

After all was said and done, this experience went a lot smoother than last time!