Busted UP!

We planned our first camping trip for Memorial Day weekend thinking SURELY by then the weather would be better.... nope! It was a total bust! We just headed up to Bruneau to a very crowded campground for a one-nighter. We actually had a great time Sunday night!
It was Lucy's first camping trip! She was pretty confused. Especially about why she had to be tied up the whole time.

Yes, a family camping picture. Lucy is diving after the hot dog of course.

We roasted some hot dogs and marshies and had a good old time!

See? The sun was even shining.

We headed over to the dunes to explore a little. This was my first time there, though I think Collin has been many times.

Attempt at a sunset picture!

Lucy LOVED playing in the sand! She would run up and down the hills as fast as she could, and it was so hard because she is so small, she was prancing like a deer! It was very funny to watch.

Later that night Collin and I headed over to the observatory to check out some sort of globular cluster of some sort. (??? Seriously, that's what the guy called it. Like we were supposed to know what that means?) We had to wait in line for like 30 minutes, but I convinced Collin to play 20 Questions with me, which he hates. (I guess he did not grow up playing this game. Who knew? He thinks it is utterly stupid. I think it's really just because he's mad he can't always guess it.) But we were entertained and ended up laughing pretty hard. And the stars were cool.

This is not the end of the camping story though. We woke up to wind and rain the next morning! boo! We laid our tent for what seemed like forever, so when we realized it wasn't getting any better, we decided to just pack up and leave. The forecast had said it was supposed to be sunny, so we didn't even bring our rain fly or any tarps. And I was in no mood to sit in a poncho and cook some eggs over the fire. So we packed up and got the heck out of there, thinking it was about 10:30 or 11. Well we got in the car and guess what time it was, 8:30! Holy cow! So we headed right back to Boise and had a delicious breakfast at IHOP. No regrets there! We headed home and slept for a few hours then went shopping and made some Dutch oven cobbler to finish the evening! Turned out to be a pretty good Memorial Day after all.