When Raccoons Attack

With school ending a couple of weeks before I have to go to work, we decided it was high time we went on a camping trip. We went out to Jordan Lake with our good friends the Dimonds with the intention of cooking up some foil dinners, playing some games by the light of the campfire, and maybe even letting Hailey and Amelia go for a dip in the lake. Of course, nothing ever really works out like you plan...so instead of the raging fire that would cook up our dinner and give us light once the sun went down we had a puny fire that was subsequently squelched by the rain.


We ate our lukewarm dinner under an umbrella.


During dinner, Hailey stood atop the bench on the picnic table, and took a bit of a tumble, she now has an array of scratches on her face that resemble the aftermath of a raccoon attack.



When it came time to put Hailey to bed so we could enjoy a night under the stars, she threw one of the most fantastic tantrums we have ever experienced...so we let her stay up for a while. When we all went to bed, she gave us an encore performance of her rage every hour, on the hour until finally the sun came up and we could leave our little tent of torture.


Okay, so maybe I'm being a little melodramatic, but it was a bit of a long night. We actually did have a lot of fun, though. We were really glad we convinced Kyle, Lindy, Amelia and Rachel to come with us. Kyle was much better at keeping the fire alive than I was, and Hailey had a blast exploring the woods with one of her best buddies.